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Filename: D1-METRO-AJCD0229-3THRE created: Feb 28 2008 Username: SPEED10 Friday, Feb 29, 2008 METRO 1 3DOT 1 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 1 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 3DOT File name: D1-METRO-AJCD0229-3THRE created: Feb 28 2008 Username: SPEED10 METRO Friday Photos by JENNI GIRTMAN Staff Jeffery Tullis (left) studies toward his degree from the Interdenominational Theological Center as John Bishop, a Ph.D. student, works on his dissertation this week at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History in Atlanta. Librarian Akilah Nosakhere returns a book. A literary festival is planned for April. A Women of Color festival is scheduled for next month.

Resource mecca seeks $20 million for an expansion By ERIC STIRGUS The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History is a busy place, particularly each February as America celebrates Black History Month. So much so that the folks who run the place say they need $20 million to expand the library. Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System director John Szabo said the library needs more archival storage space, more exhibit space and a larger auditorium. Szabo said the expansion will likely be discussed with Fulton County commissioners next month as part of a master plan for the entire system. is so much more than a branch Szabo said in an interview Wednesday.

Auburn Avenue library serves the Library boast they have one of try not to let this stay in February. Everybody benets from this type of expansive knowledge because when you talk about African-American history, talking about the history of our MORRIS GARDNER, manager of the program division BLACK HISTORY MONTH Please see AUBURN, D3 School board member may live in Cobb By MEGAN MATTEUCCI Clayton County school board member Norreese Haynes has not lived in the county for at least two years, according to his Marietta landlord and police records. Haynes has lived at the Autumn View Apartments in Marietta with another man for about two years, the apartment manager told Clayton County police on Feb. 21. In addition, a woman who lives at the Morrow address that Haynes listed as his legal residence told police the board member rented a room but never has lived there.

State law says board members must reside in the county they serve. Haynes did not return phone messages left on his two cellphones and at his Thursday. His attorney, Adrian Patrick, also did not return a phone call. According to a Feb. 27 Clayton County police report, Haynes have never lived within his represented probable cause has been CLAYTON SCHOOLS Haynes Hilton indicted in killing in Florida By RHONDA COOK and CHRISTIAN BOONE A Florida grand jury indicted Gary Michael Hilton on Thursday on charges he killed a nurse and Sunday school teacher, beheading her as he did a young woman he met hiking in the North Georgia Mountains on New Day, according to the Leon County, Sgt.

Tony Drzewiecki of the Leon County in Tallahassee said a grand jury indicted Hilton on one count each of murder and kidnapping and two counts of grand theft. The indictment came less than a month after Hilton pleaded guilty to the murder of hiker Meredith Emerson in North Georgia. The case against him in Florida is in the death of Cheryl Dunlap, 46, who disappeared Dec. 1. A hunter found decapitated body in Apalachicola National Forest near Tallahassee on Dec.

15. In the days between her disappearance and the discovery of her body, a masked person tried to use her ATM card on three separate occasions, another aspect of the case involving Dunlap that was similar to events in abduction and death. Florida prosecutors could not be reached Thursday evening, so it was not immediately known whether they planned to seek the death penalty against the 61- year-old transient. Florida named Hilton the in death on Jan. 9 one day after he was charged with murder.

Florida said they took their time bringing charges against Hilton because he was already jailed in Georgia. am that based on the forensic evidence collected and the inves Similarities to hiker case: Investigators draw comparisons with the slaying of Meredith Emerson in North Georgia. Please see HILTON, D4 Please see JUMPWORD, C4 Student back in school despite threat charge By JEREMY REDMON Cobb County school let a student return to Walton High School last month after police charged the teen with making terroristic threats by saying he would bring a gun to school and kill his classmates. The boy, whom school cials have declined to identify because he is a juvenile, threatened on Dec. 12 to a gun from the black market and come back rampaging through says a school police report obtained under Open Records Act.

Fellow students described the teen as a loner who repeatedly talked about guns and bomb-making and who once made comments about throwing grenades at a house, the police report said. His alleged threats came after a over a bookbag with other students. Please see THREAT, D3 On ajc.com/metro: Photo galleries captured images from across metro Atlanta. Metro FRIDAY, FEB. 29, 2008 Newsroom Customer Care 404-526-7003 THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION CHECK FOR BREAKING NEWS UPDATES AT AJC.COM loved me at Matt Adler manipulated the strings of love and puppets after he met Alice Rhodes.

D4 OBITUARIES James Bodiford, the new judge for the trial of Brian Nichols (left) in the courthouse rampage, has to face some of the same old thorny issues. But the judge says: no option not to try the case. going to set a trial D3 Nichols case back in court INSIDE JOHN SPINK Staff.