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RIVERDALE — The Noah’s Ark Road stable fire that killed two dozen horses was intentionally set, fire officials announced Wednesday. Stockbridge man charged with arson in stable fire that killed 24 horses Jonathan Espinoza-Vasquez The man believed to be responsible for the fire is now in police custody. Jonathan Espinoza-Vasquez, 23, of Stockbridge was arrested Thursday, April 12. Because he has pending charges in Henry County, he is currently being held in the Henry County Jail and is expected to face charges of first degree arson and aggravated animal cruelty in Clayton once those charges are disposed. “We believe that...

According to CBS Morning News, Ivanka Trump has been assigned Secret Service protection. She's the first of the Trump children to do so. They're also saying there is no word of her code name.

I know the power of prayer and I humbly ask for your prayers today for my grandson. He was born last evening at around 8:00, full term, and he appeared healthy. This morning came the heart-wrenching news that he is having difficulty breathing. He's being transported to Egleston this morning for what my son was told will be a procedure similar to an angioplasty.

ATLANTA — Just one week away from the start of early voting, at least 42,000 residents who registered to vote still haven’t been given that right.

There was a thread on FR not long ago regarding the post office going under, so I realize all that has been hashed out in the recent past, but this is pertinent information and comes straight from the horses patoot just this past week. I despise unions. They use scare tactics and lies to take the worker's money, live like kings, dole it out to democrats, and are in collusion with management against the workers. I believe we benefit when darkness is exposed to the light, so here's the latest scare tactics from the APWU...

Thank you for contacting me regarding the health care reform law. I appreciate the comments you have shared with me and the opportunity to respond. As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee as well as a former small business owner, I am aware of the problems our nation faces regarding health care and am sensitive to the struggles the average, hard-working American faces when trying to gain access to adequate and affordable health care. I have always believed in looking for solutions for ways to provide access to affordable health care to individuals who lack...

For the past four years, U.S. Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) has used his annual 13th Congressional District Health Fair to bring free health care services to the Southern Crescent. This year, the health fair served as a stage for a national debate over health care reform. Scott's fifth annual health fair on Saturday at Mundy's Mill High School in Jonesboro also was a health care town hall meeting. While more than 1,000 people came to the school's cafeteria to receive a variety of free medical screenings, more than 600 crowded into the school's gymnasium to hear Scott's views on health...

Bailout poses long-term problems for nation Lynn today voted against the $700 billion bailout plan, but pledged his support for returning to work on the issue later in the week. The vote in the House failed 205-228. Lynn issued the following statement after today's vote: “As the financial crisis has unfolded over the past year, we’ve slowly watched the dominos drop one after another and we’ve seen one bailout after another,” Westmoreland said. “Each time we were told: ‘This bailout is going to fix the problem.’ We’ve already spent hundreds of billions of dollars that our government does not have...

Scott McClellan, the former Press Secretary to President Bush (now a puppet for the Left) has written a book named, "What Happened," (probably ghost-written by the tripartite efforts of Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and Harry Reid) which suggests that: The president used propaganda at worst, or bogus intelligence at best, as a basis for the invasion of Iraq; that Scooter Libby, Vice president Cheney or Karl Rove leaked the name of the CIA operative, Valerie Plame, and if the president didn't authorize it, he, at least, had knowledge of it. Here is what really happened: • In February, 2002, Joseph...

A federal employee from Henry County, and his wife, will face federal charges in connection with an alleged immigration scheme. Hasmukh C. Patel, 52, of McDonough, was formally charged Tuesday, with conspiracy to encourage aliens to remain in the United States illegally. Authorities say over a period of more than two years, Patel and his wife, Nitigna, 46, facilitated unlawful acquisitions of visas. The alleged conspiracy began in March 2005, while Hasmukh Patel worked as a business interface representative for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The 10-page indictment states Hasmukh Patel received money from a foreign national, in exchange for...

trussell; Pegita Prayer Warriors - Thank you so much for everything you do. I appreciate the selflessness of all who have offered prayers for me and my family at the passing of my dad. I feel like my mom has had all she can take, but I just received a call that her sister in W.Va. has been burned over 80 percent of her body. She's been taken to a hospital in Pittsburgh and that's all the info I have right now. Please continue to lift us up in prayer. I know the Lord is in control of this, and...

My dad passed away February 1, 2007. He was a veteran of two wars, and he was truly a hero, but you couldn’t get him to agree to that, ever. He’d always say, “No, I was just doing my job.” You could try, but a more patriotic man you would never find. During WWII and the Korean War, Dad was a builder of bridges and a mechanic for the planes he often times was heard referring to as, "a bucket of bolts." He was born in Rosemont, West Virginia, the son of a coal miner. Not an educated man, he...

George W. Bush was quoted in The New York Times for the first time in 1967. Back then he didn’t use the W., but it’s still him. The story was about his Yale fraternity being in trouble for torturing initiates by branding them with a hot iron in the shape of a Greek letter. Bush, quoted as the former president of the fraternity, told the newspaper the burn wasn’t as bad as it sounded and really amounted to “a cigarette burn.” Bush and all of us have been talking about torture a lot lately, 39 years after that Yale experiment....

Amid the hoopla about crime reduction in New York City, an equally impressive story has sometimes gone overlooked 1,200 miles to the south. In New Orleans, a city long known for its Big Easy lifestyle, a concerted effort at police reform and crime reduction over the past six years has achieved considerable success -- and spawned lessons for other cities. http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=119&subsecID=213&contentID=2155

So they now want to be called "progressives"....meaning people who make progress? Well, who on earth could be against progress, right? To paraphrase, "that depends on what the meaning of progress is." Apparently, progress to a "progressive" means that a woman has the right to kill her child; progress to them is the weakening and/or destruction of our military, leaving our security in the hands of those who hate us, giving up our sovereignty; progress to them is to continue to "take things away from you on behalf of the common good", etc. So, regardless of what they have chosen...

My "reasonable Republican" son received the following e-mail from a co-worker he argues with: AN OPEN LETTER TO MY REASONABLE REPUBLICAN FRIENDS As a fellow citizen troubled by the shameful tenor of the political discourse in our great country, I would like to make a modest proposal to my reasonable Republican friends. I believe we can agree that regardless of whose candidates are elected next month they will need to govern our nation. Further, I believe we can agree that our government governs best not from the “left” or “right” but from the middle. So in order to remove two...

I just took the latest Zogby Interactive Poll. I know they're worthless, but... Anyway, there were the basic questions of who did you vote for in 2000, how likely are you to vote this year, etc. Then the question, "Did the first presidential debate affect the way you plan to vote in the election?", and several options, including: I had planned to vote for Bush and still do; (and directly below that) I had planned to vote for Bush but no longer will. After selecting that I will vote for Bush, I clicked in the margin area and noticed my...

Heart of Georgia, Jeremy is on his way to Iraq right now even while you are reading this. Thank you for your continued prayers for him. We drove up to Camp Legeune, NC, this Labor Day weekend and spent a few hours w/him and had prayer w/him. He is very eager to go and do his job and return home in April. Please remember mom and dad in prayer as well! God bless the Marines!!

I just found out my computer has been hacked. I have a small business, and this person is a rival in the same business and has gained access to very sensitive documents. Is there anything I can do!!!?

A campaign mailing by Clayton County Commissioner Charley Griswell encouraging residents to cast absentee votes has provoked a response from the Georgia Secretary of State's office. A letter distributed to county voters under Griswell's signature, which is dated Aug. 2, urges residents to vote absentee in the upcoming Aug. 20 primary. Griswell is up for re-election in District 4. "You do not need an excuse to vote absentee - it's your right," the letter states. Two absentee ballot applications, including one sample and one blank application, were enclosed with Griswell's letter. Georgia law, however, stipulates that voters do need a...