Regional Roundup: Anarchist Group Strikes Parking Meters, Dog Dies From Hot Truck Ride and UGA Named to Lists of Party Schools

– East Atlanta Patch

From city council members to residents to tourists, PARKatlanta is certainly not short on detractors.

Now, the private company, which is contracted to provide parking enforcement for the city of Atlanta, can add another group the list: Anarchists.

A self-described anarchist group with "a profound hatred of the privatized parking enforcement in Atlanta" hit a string of parking meters along Edgewood Avenue Sunday, rendering 45 of them inoperable along a stretch of the road that spans from the Sweet Auburn district to Downtown.

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– Cartersville Patch

A Savannah man whose dog died as a result of exhaustion and low glucose levels was arrested Aug. 6 by Cartersville Police.

Authorities responded to  after they received a complaint the man was driving a U-haul through Cartersville with his Cocker Spaniel-mix in the back of the moving truck, according to a news release.

When police arrived, the dog was lying next to the truck in the parking lot in apparent physical distress and a concerned citizen was pouring water on the dog to help cool it down.

Jerry Mason, 50, of Savannah, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor animal cruelty. He was traveling from Savannah to Kentucky, he told police.

The dog died overnight Monday to Tuesday.

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The Princeton Review named the University of Georgia the 2012 number two party school, behind Ohio University. For Newsweek, UGA is number 21, far behind number one West Virginia.

The rankings were based on the number of on-campus incidents of disciplinary actions and arrests for drug and alcohol violations.

According to the Newsweek website, UGA had 24 disciplinary actions for drugs and 69 arrests. There were 256 disciplinary actions for alcohol and 218 on-campu arests.

The University of Florida, by the way, was ranked number nine.

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