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Fallout

Posted on 7/1/2011 8:00:00 AM by Scott Freeman
As midnight approached on Friday, July 26, 1996, there were still 15,000 people crowding Centennial Olympic Park. A heat wave that had kept temperatures hovering near 90 degrees for the past week had broken, and there was a cool breeze in the air. Read More

Rock Royalty

Posted on 7/1/2011 8:00:00 AM by Scott Freeman
Chuck Leavell is considered by many to be the greatest rock pianist alive. Gregg Allman once said, “I know some good piano players, man, but . . . Chuck smokes ’em.” Read More

The Truth

Posted on 9/1/2000 8:00:00 AM by Scott Freeman
The Ray Lewis Murder Trial, beyond attracting more national attention than any courthouse drama to unfold here in more than 20 years, became a morality play for modern-day Atlanta. Read More

Eric Rudolph and the Olympic Park Bombing

Posted on 7/1/2000 8:00:00 AM by Scott Freeman
Where is Eric Rudolph? Two years after he vanished into the mountains of North Carolina, the Feds still haven't found the accused bomber. They're chasing a man who has spent his entire life making himself disappear. Read More

Do The Right Thing

Posted on 9/1/1998 8:00:00 AM by Scott Freeman
Police Chief Paige McNeese leans back in his chair and pensively tugs on a Marlboro. "That word, hero," he says, "it can backfire on you in a heartbeat." Read More

Presumed Guilty

Posted on 12/1/1996 8:00:00 AM by Scott Freeman
Overzealous. That adjective haunted Richard Jewell long before he became known as the FBI's leading suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27, 1996. Read More

Richard Jewell and the Olympic Park Bombing

Posted on 12/1/1996 8:00:00 AM by Scott Freeman
How in the blink of an eye Richard Jewell's world was turned inside out Read More

Old Timer

Posted on 4/1/1996 8:00:00 AM by Scott Freeman
His eyes are the eyes of a hunter. Even though he cloaks them under the shadow of his low-slung baseball cap, there's no escaping the complete focus, the fierce confidence. Necessarily arrogant is the way he likes to describe it. Read More