Former candidate arrested for taking trade secrets from power plant headquarters

A former Democratic candidate in Georgia who openly criticized Georgia Power was arrested Tuesday and charged with stealing a notebook of the agency's trade secrets.

Patty Durand, a former Public Service Commission candidate, was taken into custody at the commission's downtown Atlanta headquarters, authorities told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Durand was charged with theft of trade secrets, according to Fulton County jail records. She's now facing a felony.

She was allegedly...