Tony Franklin thought the call to the big time would never come again.

It came late in 2007.

During his days as a Hal Mumme-era offensive coordinator at Kentucky, Franklin got caught up in the bitter staff feuding that helped doom Mumme's coaching tenure at UK in 2000.

In response to the infighting, Franklin penned a book containing his view of what had really gone on during the turbulent Mumme era. Given the speak-no-evil code that guides the big-time college football coaching fraternity, it made the one-time Kentucky high school coach a professional pariah.

For five long years (2001-2005), Franklin was exiled to the college football wilderness. "I'd pretty much given up," Franklin said Thursday of returning to college coaching. "And I was OK with that."

The Atlanta City Council voted Monday to override a veto from Mayor Shirley Franklin and re-adopt a resolution asking for an audit of the city's water and sewer funds.

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Nearly 200 employees will lose their jobs when Jevic Transportation and Franklin Boxboard close their local facilities in June.

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The Northwest Passage, the Arctic route linking the Atlantic and Pacific, gnawed away at Roald Amundsen until he finally navigated a route in 1905. It had claimed the lives of countless brave, often foolhardy explorers, most notoriously the 130 men of the 1845 Franklin expedition, who along with their two ships, simply vanished into the icy wasteland.