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Liquor store heavily damaged by fire
WSBTV Atlanta
Apr 10Liquor bottles exploded as a fire heavily damaged a DeKalb County liquor store late Monday night.The fire broke out around 11 p.m. at Jack’s Package Store on Lawrenceville Highway at Hugh Howell Road."We had some liquor bottles exploding and things of ... »
Voters still debating on Sunday liquor sales
WSBTV Atlanta
Mar 06Voters in several metro Atlanta areas are deciding if they want to allow Sunday alcohol sales in their communities. Voters in unincorporated DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, Henry, Rockdale, Forsyth and Hall are voting on the matter Tuesday, along with voters i... »
Metro cities don’t see tax boon from Sunday sales
AJC.com
Feb 24Taxpayers are benefiting in cities that moved fastest to legalize Sunday retail sales of alcohol, but it’s a party that might not last. Some of the biggest metro Atlanta cities that enacted the new rules in mid-November have since rung up thousands of ... »
Man uses choir as cover for drug deal
Cov News
Jan 08When officers confronted a man about what they thought was a drug deal in front of S&S Package Store, he denied it, saying he had been chatting with the other man about his church choir. »
Court upholds conviction in 2006 killing of DeKalb liquor store owner
AJC.com
Nov 07The Georgia Supreme Court has unanimously upheld a murder conviction and life prison sentence for the man authorities say gunned down a liquor store owner in DeKalb County.Rodney Ennis Battles was convicted of malice murder, felony murder and aggravate... »
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Court upholds conviction in death of store owner killed protecting pregnant wife
Examiner Atlanta Articles
Nov 07For 15 years Mr. Shamshamer “Rocky” Tucker and his wife followed the same routine. The India natives owned Rocky’s Package Store where they would work together each day; rode home together each night and brought home... »