Q&A on the News

Q: I noticed they’re underway with the demolition of the state’s former archives building. Is there a plan to reclaim all the marble?

—Scott MacLean, Forest Park

A: The Georgia Building Authority would like to salvage about 20 percent of the marble from the old state archives building.

The rest of the marble is “too thin and brittle to salvage,” Paul Melvin, spokesman for the Georgia Building Authority, told Q&A on the News in an email.

The salvaged marble will be used for the new judicial building, he wrote, which will be built on that site.

The state plans to implode the archives building, which is nicknamed the “White Ice Cube,” in March 2017, Melvin wrote. It was built in 1965 and closed because of structural issues.

The state’s archives moved to a new facility in Morrow, which opened in 2003.

Q: What happened to the criminal prosecution case against Shane Ladner, the Holly Springs cop who claimed he won the Purple Heart and whose wife lost her leg in a parade?

—Mike McGinniss, Roswell

A: Ladner’s trial is scheduled for January, the Cherokee County District Attorney’s office told the AJC.

Ladner, a former police officer, was indicted in January 2015 on charges of theft by deception and one count of making false statements after he claimed he had received a Purple Heart.

Ladner and his wife, Meg Ladner, were injured during in an accident during a parade for veterans in Midland, Texas, in November 2012.