If you see this guy, call Decatur Police.  Here’s the press release that goes along with the release of this photo…

On Thursday January 6, 2011 at approximately 3:30 pm the Decatur Police Department responded to a reported robbery at the Bank of America located at 163 Clairemont Avenue. The suspect fled the bank prior to officer’s arrival. The suspect obtained an unspecified amount of currency from the robbery. No weapon was displayed during the robbery and no one was injured. A photo of the suspect is attached below.

Anyone having information about this crime should contact the Decatur Police Department at 373-6551 or Crime Stoppers at 404 577-TIPS (577-8477)

UPDATE: See post immediately after this one for a photo of the robber and a press release from Decatur PD.

Decatur resident and long-time Twitter user @DanaYoung tweets…

Bank of America on Clairmont & Commerce was robbed today! #decaturga

Anyone else have any info?  I’m checking with Decatur PD.

Check it.  Emory is posting videos on YouTube of filming of the Matt Damon/Jude Law/Kate Winslet movie “Contagion” out in front of the CDC today.  Of the six videos posted thus far, this one of the fake protest in action is probably the best.

“No More Lies!”  Preach on, fake protesters.  Preach on.

After the jump, some footage of Laurence Fishburne on the scene, also courtesy of Emory…

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The AJC noted this morning that 17 schools statewide were recently recognized by the Georgia Office for Student Achievement for having the highest levels of achievement and greatest gains on the state’s Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) and Georgia High School Graduation Tests (GHSGT) this past year.

And as the title of this post has already informed you, Decatur High School was among them.

In metro Atlanta, only DeKalb School for the Arts, Buford Elementary School, Early College High School at Carver and School of the Arts at Carver, Mabry Middle School in Cobb County and Riverwood International Charter School also achieved this honor.

Congrats Decatur High!

Thanks to Decatur’s Token Republican for the heads-up!

UPDATE: AJC is now reporting that part of the movie may be filmed in downtown Decatur.  Will check with the city for any known specifics.

No one has yet confirmed which – if any – of these big-name thespians is actually on-location at Emory and/or the CDC today, but On Location Vacations reports and Fox5 confirms that the movie “Contagion“, about a “deadly disease and the team of doctors at the CDC tasked to contain it”, is indeed filming at the University and adjacent CDC campus today.

So Emory & CDC folks – and I know there are a bunch of you out there! – feel free to write in with your eye-witness reports, rumors and gossip.  It’s all good.  Feed the beast!

h/t: Travis G. Maurer