Rail Service Linking Atlanta to Charlotte is Possible

Transportation officials are considering the development of rapid passenger rail service linking Charlotte and Atlanta.
A federal study released this month found that officials could realistically develop service that travels between 90 and 110 mph without needing major changes to the existing rail corridor.
The study assumed there would be as many as nine stops between Charlotte and Atlanta as it crosses through South Carolina.
Officials in the three states are now preparing to conduct a more detailed study to assess ridership and costs.

(AP)

Georgia surges in arrests of known illegal aliens

Arrests of illegal immigrants on the lam have quadrupled in the Southeast in the last year. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports the increase puts Georgia and North Carolina just behind Los Angeles and Miami for such arrests. Two teams of officers based in Atlanta, along with a team in Raleigh and Charlotte, arrested nearly 2, 300 people from October 2006 to October 2007. That’s up from over 500 arrests in the previous year.