Homelessness event
is Friday at fairground
While the previous two Mission-Change Hope for the Homeless and Hungry Sleep Outs defied their high expectations, the organizers looking to raise the bar yet again in our continuing efforts to raise money and inspire action for the homeless and food insecure throughout our community. The event at the Albany Exchange Club Fairgrounds begins at 6:30 p.m. Friday and ends at 7 p.m. Saturday
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Local attorney weighs
in on judge’s arrest
Albany criminal defense attorney Pete Donaldson says it’s unclear thus far whether any of the court decisions made by a federal judge from Newnan, Ga., faces drug and gun charges will be revisited.
Prosecutors say that 67-year-old Senior Judge Jack T. Camp’s fall from grace started with a stripper’s lap dance and escalated into prostitution and drug deals for cocaine and prescription pills.
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Billy Chambers is selling cars again.
Chambers, whose longtime family automobile business was seized by the state of Georgia this summer because of his alleged failure to repay sales tax that he collected, is now working at Kia Autosport on East Oglethorpe Boulevard.
“I will be handling all e-commerce and financing of vehicles,” Chambers told The Albany Journal. “We will be making a major focus on Used Cars and Trucks — imagine that — and the Kia Sorrento which of course is made in Lagrange, Georgia. The newly designed Kia Optima will be surfacing in November and we anticipate that it will be the premier mid-size import car for the area. We will also be working very hard at increasing the Kia markets hare in Southwest Georgia.”
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Tuesday, Jun 28
Partly Cloudy
Currently: 94˚F
Feels Like: 100˚ F
Hi: 92˚, Lo: 72˚
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