Metro Atlanta: Get ready for a decade of road construction

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Metro Atlanta: Get ready for a decade of road construction

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By David Wickert, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for AtlantaNewsAndTalk.Com The reconstruction of one of metro Atlanta’s busiest highway interchanges will be finished by the end of this year. But a new era of road building has just begun. Metro Atlanta is about to experience the kind of highway construction boom it hasn’t seen since the completion of the Perimeter in 1969. With proceeds from a 2015 gas tax increase, the Georgia Department of Transportation will spend billions of dollars over the next decade to expand the region’s highways. The projects include an expansion of the region’s network of toll lanes, new highway interchanges…

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Phoenix: Despite Arizona ban, Phoenix Union High School District announces indoor mask mandate for classes

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Lita Nadebah Beck | Arizona Republic Troy Warren for PhoenixNewsAndTalk.Com Phoenix Union High School District will require masks to be worn indoors when students head back to school next week — despite an Arizona law that bans mask mandates. Citing the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus and updated federal health guidance, the district said students, staff and visitors must wear masks, regardless of vaccination status. "Recently, we have heard from our staff, students, and families that they want us to realign our mitigation practices with the guidelines and recommendations of national and local health agencies," the district said…

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Atlanta: ‘This is inhumane’ residents say of apartment complex living conditions

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By Adrianne Murchison, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for AtlantaNewsAndTalk.Com Residents at a southwest Atlanta apartment complex say complaints ranging from extreme mold to rodents and dilapidated building structures have been ignored by property management. Royal Oaks Apartments is now under investigation after residents turned to the code enforcement unit of the Atlanta Police Department. The complex was cited with 185 violations following a July 14 visit by Atlanta Police Department’s Code Enforcement and the Department of Public Works. “The apartments are infested with roaches, rats, mold,” Royal Oaks Apartment resident Tamara Morgan said. “This is inhumane.” Atlanta police department wouldn’t…

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Beverly Hills: ‘The Joker’ Filmmaker Todd Phillips Asks Dead Serious $34.5M for Beverly Hills Estate

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BY MARK DAVID, DIRT.COM Troy Warren for BeverlyHillsNewsAndTalk.Com The residence, built in 1928 by architect Wallace Neff, was purchased from Paradigm chairman Sam Gores in 2012 for $17.25 million. One of Hollywood’s most bankable filmmakers, Todd Phillips has hoisted his lavish A-lister estate in the coveted Flats neighborhood of Beverly Hills, Calif., on the market with a blockbuster price of $34.5 million. It doesn’t take a mathematics genius to tabulate that the asking price is exactly twice the $17.25 million that was paid to Paradigm Talent Agency chairman Sam Gores for the property in May of 2012, right in between the money-minting releases…

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Atlanta: WSB’s Jovita Moore has an aggressive brain cancer

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By Rodney Ho, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for AtlantaNewsAndTalk.Com The award-winning evening anchor had brain tumor surgery in April. Channel 2 Action News anchor Jovita Moore has an aggressive form of brain cancer, WSB-TV reported during its 4 p.m. newscast Thursday. Moore ― who has been with WSB-TV since 1998 and has won numerous Emmy awards ― had brain surgery in April after doctors discovered tumors. At the time, doctors had hoped she could be back on air in eight to 10 weeks, assuming no serious complications. But pathologists discovered Moore had glioblastoma, a serious form of cancer. “It’s not something I…

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New Orleans: NBA’s Jaxson Hayes arrested in Los Angeles after altercation with police

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By The Associated Press Troy Warren for NewOrleansNewsAndTalk.Com New Orleans Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes was arrested in Los Angeles after a struggle with officers who were responding to a report of a domestic dispute and used a Taser and other force before handcuffing him, authorities said Thursday. Hayes, 21, was booked into jail on suspicion of resisting arrest, and a woman declined to cooperate with the investigation into the domestic dispute call early Wednesday, a Los Angeles Police Department statement said. Hayes received treatment for unspecified injuries he got during the struggle before going to jail, police said. He was released…

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Phoenix: Post-vaccination travel rebound: Here’s how busy the Phoenix, Mesa airports were in June

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Melissa Yeager | Arizona Republic Troy Warren for PhoenixNewsAndTalk.Com If airline passenger numbers are any indication, the pent-up demand for post-vaccination leisure travel has been unleashed. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport inched closer in June to a near return of its pre-pandemic traffic, while Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport saw its first increase in 2021 compared to 2019. Sky Harbor reported 3.6 million passengers in June 2021. That's down just 5% from June 2019, when it welcomed 3.8 million. Overall, passenger traffic at Sky Harbor is still down significantly in 2021 compared to 2019. So far this year, 16.8 million passengers have used the airport,…

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Goodyear: A year of free flights: Arizona man wins grand prize in United’s Your Shot to Fly contest

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Melissa Yeager | Arizona Republic Troy Warren for GoodyearNewsAndTalk.Com Ask any traveler and it's probably their dream come true: A year of free flights with a companion, any class of service to anywhere in the world. One Arizonan will live out that fantasy because he got his COVID-19 vaccination. Sean Husmoe of Goodyear recently received a phone call from United Capt. CJ Charlton telling him he was one of five winners of United's Your Shot to Fly sweepstakes. "Are you kidding me? That's incredible! You enter a sweepstakes, you don't necessarily expect to win," Husmoe said in a video United Airlines shared with The…

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Atlanta: Brian Patrick Flynn helms new Discovery+ docuseries ‘Mind For Design’

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By Rodney Ho, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for Atlanta News And Talk He also hosts HGTV home giveaway sweepstakes ‘Urban Oasis’ and ‘Dream Home.’ Atlanta’s Brian Patrick Flynn never went to design school. He spent years decorating film sets, which led cast and crew to ask him to do projects at their homes as a side hustle. He eventually landed a gig building out homes for HGTV sweepstakes competitions “Urban Oasis” and “Dream Home.” Now he’s on Discovery+ with his very own show “Mind for Design,” which is really just Flynn fixing up rooms or parts of homes for clients documentary-style.…

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Atlanta: Mayor Bottoms issues indoor mask mandate for public places in Atlanta

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By J.D. Capelouto, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for Atlanta News And Talk Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order Wednesday mandating residents wear a mask when indoors in a public place, even if they have been vaccinated, amid rising COVID-19 infections and the spread of the delta variant. The order applies to private businesses as well as public property, the mayor’s office said in a statement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday that individuals should wear a mask indoors in public if they are in an area of substantial or high transmission of the virus,…

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