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Downed tree closes Midtown road

ATLANTA -- A fallen tree has blocked a portion of Juniper Street in Midtown Atlanta Monday morning.

RELATED | Flooding, trees down, power out

The oak tree came down at around 11 p.m. Sunday on Juniper Street NE at 5th Street NE. It snapped a utility pole as it fell, knocking out power at a number of homes and businesses through the area.

Crews are currently working to clear the scene.

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Georgia Tech Softball downs Boston College, 12-3, for series sweep

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- The Georgia Tech softball team (25-29, 10-10 ACC) pounded 14 hits for 12 runs in a 12-3 victory to complete the series sweep over Boston College (14-37, 2-19) Sunday afternoon at Shea Softball Field in both teams' regular season finale.

Georgia Tech's Ashley Thomas went 2-for-4 with three runs, while Alysha Rudnik was 2-for-4 with two runs and an RBI to lead the team. Katie Johnsky added four RBI and a two-run homer, and Courtney Ziese was 2-for-4 with a home run.

"It was really important to get the sweep," head coach Sharon Perkins said. "It's one of those things where you play hard one game at a time and we did just that. Kylie [Kleinschmidt] threw really well and Karly [Fullem] closed the game for us, but our bats were alive the whole day."

Palka homers twice, but No. 23 Jackets fall to Coastal

THE FLATS -- Junior Daniel Palka launched a pair of home runs, drove in four and pitched an inning of scoreless relief, but No. 23 Georgia Tech let a 6-5 lead in the seventh inning slip away as Coastal Carolina rallied for a 12-8 victory to win the weekend series Sunday at Russ Chandler Stadium.

The Chanticleers (29-18) sprinted out to a quick 5-0 lead in the third, the Yellow Jackets (29-18) answered with a five-spot in the bottom of the third, then seized a one-run lead in the fourth that they would take to the seventh. But the visitors pushed across seven in the seventh to reclaim the lead for good.

All Georgia patrols to crack down on drunk driving, speeding

All Georgia patrols to crack down on drunk driving, speeding

(WXIA) -- Summer 2013, as reported by the Governor's Office of Highway Safety, makes ten years in a row that police are bumping up the number of patrols throughout Georgia - to crack down on dangerous driving. 

Katie Fallon, spokeswoman for the GOHS said the boost in patrol is part of the 100 Days of Summer H.E.A.T. (Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic) campaign. It is a strategy in which all jurisdictions of highway safety enforcement work to reduce aggressive, high-speed travel and driving under the influence. During the summer months, accidents happen from these two bad driving habits. 

"Temperatures won't be the only thing making the heat rise this summer," Director Harris Blackwood said. "From drunk drivers to aggressive speeders, all unsafe motorists will be feeling the H.E.A.T."

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Has APS helped students affected by CRCT scandal?

ATLANTA -- All the attention on the courtroom should not distract from what's happening in the classroom.

We dug into the question: what is being done for the students affected by the Atlanta Public Schools CRCT cheating scandal, specifically those students who moved onto the next grade because their tests were changed?

Immediately after the scandal became a national story, outgoing APS school board chairperson Khaatim Sherrer El said the following: "I have failed to protect thousands of children ... children who come from homes like mine."

He was in tears as he said it.

The APS board and its new superintendent, Erroll Davis, vowed then to provide aid to the students who had wrongly advanced to the next grade. In the months that followed, they earmarked roughly 5500 children, but they struggled to pinpoint all of them.

"Therefore," said Davis several months later, "we have decided to cast a much wider net."

Midtown collision causes at least one injury

MIDTOWN -- A head-on vehicle collision has caused at least one injury.

The crash happened on Friday afternoon around 4:40, near the intersection of Ponce de Leon Avenue NW and Linwood Avenue NE. Among vehicles involved are a gray Prius, a white Acura and a silver Mazda.

More details to come.

 

Hopeful student drivers reminded to get school attendance form

Hopeful student drivers reminded to get school attendance form

(WXIA) -- The Georgia Department of Driver Services issued a reminder on Friday for all students wishing to take the test for their dirver's permit or license over the summer.

Those students must obtain a "DDS Certificate of Attendance Form" from their school before the end of the school year before taking any driver's test during the long summer break from classes. A spokesman from DDS said the forms must be signed and notarized from each school, and brought when each student applies for a permit or license.

Because of summer break, the Certificate of Attendance Forms issued in May will be good until September 30.  

For more information, visit the Department of Driver Services online.