5 Gwinnett Cities to Stop Using Red Light Cameras

Five cities in Gwinnett County are stopping the use of red light cameras at busy intersections, saying they are too costly even though they have reduced accidents.

Norcross and Suwanee have removed the cameras, Snellville and Lilburn have suspended their programs for study and Duluth says it won't renew its lease when it expires in May.

The cameras monitor and record red light violations.

By summer only one government in Gwinnett will still be using the cameras - the county government.

Officials say the cameras are working, with violations, accidents and injuries all down. But the program can cost cities $400,000 a year and the number of citations have dwindled since a state law mandates a one-second addition to the yellow phase at all camera intersections.

(AP)

Gen. Beau Sees Early Spring

The forecast is in from General Beauregard Lee--an early spring for Georgia. The state's official groundhog failed to see his shadow early this morning, which means a prediction of early spring. Gen. Beau on this Groundhog Day emerged from his mock-up antebellum mansion at the Yellow River Game Ranch in Lilburn Tuesday morning under overcast skies and 30 degrees. The groundhog’s owner says Gen. Beau has only missed a prediction once in his career. But that one miss was significant. In 1993 a prediction of early spring instead brought the worst blizzard in decades to blanket the South.