Archive for July, 2008

Repay $6.5M for mortgage fraud, man to serve 8 years

The property developer Kevin Wiggins fondly recalled a house on Lucille Avenue.
It was a house “no one would live in, where drug deals were being done. We put in hardwood floors, fixtures that no one thought belonged here.
“This was good intentions gone bad. We were able to come out to the neighborhood because no one […]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

AmericasMart Expand for hit with buyers

Aug. 16, when the August Atlanta Apparel Market starts, Michelle Harrison & Associates will be stationed right outside the John Portman-designed & Associates will be stationed right outside the John Portman-designed elevators on the 10th floor with a new 1,000-square-foot showroom.
The new space — looking much like a high-end salon — will be dedicated only […]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Pay raises for teachers and employees hit chopping block

There everything from pay raises for teachers and state employees to tax cuts passed during the 2008 General Assembly session could be on the chopping block if the economy continues to stumble, a key lawmaker said Tuesday.
are looking at a whole host of options as they try to decide how to address the state’s latest […]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

AP IMPACT: Little progress since bridge collapse

By ROBERT TANNER, STEVE KARNOWSKI and FRANK BASS, Associated Press Writers
MINNEAPOLIS - A year after the worst U.S. bridge collapse in a generation brought calls for immediate repairs to other spans, two of every three of the busiest problem bridges in each state — carrying nearly 40 million vehicles a day — have had […]

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Video game sales soar 53 percent in June

U.S. video game retail sales soared 53 percent in June, fueled by Nintendo Co.’s Wii and handheld DS gaming systems, as well as Konami Corp.’s blockbuster “Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots” — by far the month’s best-selling title.
Total sales of video game hardware, software and accessories hit $1.69 billion during the month, […]

Friday, July 18th, 2008

North Korea’s “Hotel of Doom” wakes from its coma

North Korea’s phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as “the worst building in the history of mankind,” the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world’s most reclusive and destitute countries.
According to foreign residents in Pyongyang, Egypt’s […]

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Apple new iPhone went getting the phones

Apple Inc.’s new iPhone went on sale Friday to eager buyers worldwide, but there were problems getting the phones to work.
Kenny Pichardo, 24, was the first to buy an iPhone 3G at an AT&T store in the New York borough of Queens, but he said it took the store half an hour to get the […]

Friday, July 11th, 2008