Thursday, February 28, 2013
A roundup of metro Atlanta news headlines for Thursday, Feb. 28.
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Thursday, February 28
A Grady High School student who is accused of shooting herself on school grounds earlier this week was granted bond Thurday afternoon. The AJC has the latest details on the case of Morgan Tukes, who is charged with a felony possession charge and three misdemeanors. She will have another hearing on March 14 in Fulton Superior Court. Get the background on the case from Virginia Highland-Druid Hills Patch. A Paulding County couple accused of locking their 18-year-old son in a bathroom and giving him little food for at least three years pleaded guilty Thursday. Under an agreement with the state, Paul and Sheila Comer pleaded guilty to four charges, including child cruelty and false imprisonment. They could spend up to 15 years in prison and 30…
Monday, February 25, 2013
Here is news from around the region for Monday, Feb. 25, 2013.
Gov. Nathan Deal announced Monday that he is signing an executive order that accepts the State Board of Education's recommendation that six DeKalb school board members be removed. Deal made the announcement Monday afternoon during a press conference at the state capitol. Read more on Tucker Patch. Saturday evening gunshots inside the Nite Lite Phaze 2 Lounge on Moreland Avenue took the life of a 26-year-old Decatur man, Terry Blount. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the victims mother, "said she was told by relatives who were with her son at the club that the suspect walked up to Blount and shot him in the chest." Read more on East Atlanta Patch. Andrea Sneiderman's murder trial is set to begin on July 29. Sneiderman was …
Friday, February 22, 2013
Here's news from around the region for Friday, Feb. 22, 2013.
The State Board of Education voted late Thursday night to recommend the removal of six members of the DeKalb School Board to Gov. Nathan Deal. The board voted unanimously to recommend that Sarah Copelin-Wood, Donna Edler, Eugene Walker, Jay Cunningham, Nancy Jester and Pamela Speaks be removed from the DeKalb school board. If Gov. Deal follows the board's recommendation, Jim McMahan, Marshall Orson and Melvin Johnson would remain on the board as newly elected members. Read more on Virginia Highlands — Druid Hills Patch. News outlets are reporting that a suspect is in custody following the stabbing deaths of two people at a home off Redan Road in unincorporated Stone Mountain. A third person was also cut and taken to a hospital. The …
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Here are headlines from around the region for Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013.
One man was injured and taken to Atlanta Medical after apparently attempting to drive around the warning signal cross bar and over the train tracks in downtown Douglasville this morning, according to Capt. D. Shaw, Douglasville Police Department. The man had no visible injuries but was complaining about his left leg, Shaw said. The train appeared to be undamaged. Read more on Douglasville Patch. Bartow County authorities are investigating an apparent murder-suicide at an upscale resort near Cartersville. Sheriff Clark Millsap said in a statement that deputies were called to Barnsley Gardens Resort near Adairsville at 2:40 a.m. to reports a female clerk had been shot. The man who allegedly shot her had fled into nearby woods. Read more on …
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Here are headlines from around the region for Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013.
A reworked series of indictments was issued on Tuesday afternoon in the murder trial of Andrea Sneiderman. The new 16-count indictment drops language from the original document, according to the AJC, including allegations that Sneiderman and Hemy Neuman “conspired together to murder Rusty Sneiderman so that they could enjoy a life together, eliminate Neuman’s debt problems and fully benefit from the assets the Sneidermans had acquired as well as the proceeds of Rusty Sneiderman’s life insurance policies.” Read more on Dunwoody Patch. It's been one week since George "Marty" Counts of Tucker went missing on Lake Lanier. DNR officials say they are in recovery mode as they look for his body. "All things indicate that we are in recovery mode at…
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Here are headlines from around the region for Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013
DeKalb Board of Education Chairman Eugene Walker resigned from his leadership position on Monday, leaving the embattled school board free to elect a new leader before Thursday's pivotal meeting with the State Board of Education. CrossRoads News is reporting that Walker announced his resignation during Monday's specially called school board meeting. The school board is expected to meet again at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday to select a new chairman. Read more on Tucker Patch. Officer Lyon of the Atlanta Police Department has confirmed that one person was killed in an early Tuesday morning in a hit & run accident. The crime occurred near the Bakers Hills neighborhood, near I-20 and MLK. According to reports, "the pedestrian was struck at around 6 …
Monday, February 18, 2013
Here are headlines from around the region for Monday, Feb. 18, 2013.
What started out as a SWAT standoff has ended tragically in an upscale Towne Lake neighborhood. A man who barricaded himself inside a home at 351 Iron Hill Trace was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, Cherokee Sheriff's Office's Lt. Jamie Gianfala said Sunday evening. Read more on Woodstock Patch. A former Kennesaw State University student is fighting for her life after a hit-and-run driver struck her as she walked early Saturday morning near an Athens roadway. Emily Bowman of Woodstock was walking in the grass when a 1997 red Mazda pick up truck traveling eastbound on Oak Street left the roadway, hit her, then fled the scene, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Read more on Kennesaw Patch. A 20-year-old …
Friday, February 15, 2013
Here are headlines from around the region for Friday, Feb. 15, 2013.
Oconee County law enforcement officials were at an East Haven Trail residence early Friday investigating a suspected methamphetamine lab, according to an email to media from Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Lee Weems. About 11 p.m. Thursday, a helicopter landed at Malcom Bridge Elementary School to transport a burn patient, Weems said. Investigators later determined the man had likely been injured while cooking meth. Read more on Oconee Patch. The 23-year-old man who allegedly charged a Cobb County Police officer with a knifeTuesday afternoon and kept neighbors from their homes for close to six hours as law enforcement negotiated with him has been identified as Timothy Przedpelski of Acworth. Przedpelski is being held on charges of willful …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Here are headlines from around the region for Valentines Day, Feb. 14, 2013.
On Thursday, the president visited the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center and made remarks at the Decatur Recreation Center. See our gallery of photos and add your own. Read more on Decatur Patch. Douglas County is number one in Georgia for foreclosures, after a 44.63 percent increase in the number of foreclosure filings from December 2012 to January 2013, according to data released Wednesday by RealtyTrac. One in every 200 housing units in the county had a foreclosure filing last month, which is up 10.82 percent from January 2012, according to the Douglas County Sentinel. Read more on Douglasville Patch. The Grant Park Security Patrol reported that a carjcacking and pedestrian robbery occurred at about 8:20 p.m. on Feb. 13. …
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Here are headlines from around the region for Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013.
Score one for Kennesaw State. The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia today approved Kennesaw State’s request for a football program. "Touchdown," Kennesaw athletic director Vaughn Williams said. The decision comes a little more than one month after the board decided to take Kennesaw State’s request for a football program "under further study." Read more on Kennesaw Patch. A multiagency search of Lake Lanier and surrounding shorelines is underway for a 47-year-old man missing in what appears to be a single boat accident, according to officials with the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office and Georgia Department of Natural Resources. At about 9:48 p.m. Monday, DNR was called to investigate an unmanned 15-foot jon boat that was …
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