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Emory University nursing student Lauren Baldwin plays with 4-year-old Alexis Maddox in the Feed My Lambs day care center at City of Refuge in Atlanta on Tuesday, June 21, 2011.  Emory University nursing students are working at City of Refuge, a safe house for people getting back on their feet, as part of their summer cirriculum.

Curtis Compton, ccompton@ajc.com

Nursing students work at City of Refuge

There is no grocery store in sight, no bank, no drug store. Just poverty. A group of Emory nursing students who recently entered City of Refuge, the non-profit serving the needy on Joseph E.


Report: APD didn't follow procedure in gay bar raid

A day after police missed the deadline set by a federal judge to report on its investigation into a 2009 raid on a Midtown Atlanta gay bar, the Atlanta Police Department and a legal team doing its own investigation released their findings. 11:31 p.m.

Bridge collapses on Bolton Road

A section of Bolton Road in northwest Atlanta will be closed for at least 48 hours after a truck smashed a bridge overhead, partially collapsing the structure Tuesday.