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Cleared Union City officer speaks out
A Union City police officer speaks for the first time after a grand jury cleared him of criminal charges in the shooting death of 19-year-old Ariston Waiters. Authorities say witnesses saw Waiters fire shots into the air during a fight in the Hickory Park subdivision December 14, 2011, prompting the ...
Dispute leads to shooting at Home Depot
A Clayton County mother is behind bars after a judge denied her bond following a shooting at a Home Depot. Police say Nikia Jones, 28, fired shots at her child's father after the two got into an argument while exchanging custody of their 2-year-old son. According to a police report, ...
TSPLOST Forum: get us out of this mess
A member of the roundtable in charge of creating the list of projects funded by that tax plans to vote against it. Holly Springs Mayor Tim Downing and most commuters in Atlanta agree something needs to be done to ease traffic. "We have to defeat the project list and that ...
Facebook tip leads to arrests in Douglasville mill fire
A Facebook tip leads police to the arrest of four people in connection with an arson fire at a historic cotton mill in Douglasville. Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller tells Channel 2 Action News two of the young men said they didn't mean to burn the 100-year-old General Western Cotton ...
$30k in equipment stolen from cancer charity
Thieves target a company that offers free lawn care for cancer patients. The owner of Mowing with a Meaning vows to reopen after he says $30,000 worth of equipment was stolen. Robert "Smokey" Page says lawn mowing profits collected from services provided to customers are used to pay for free ...
Second arrest in Cartersville law office robbery
Cartersville police arrest a second suspect in connection with last week's armed robbery at a law office. Lieutenant Mark Camp says Derrick Williams, 22, is now behind bars. "Between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. this evening," Camp told News/Talk WSB on Friday, "Mr. Williams turned himself in at the Bartow ...
Ga. Poison Center issues new warning
A warning for parents about laundry detergent pods after the Georgia Poison Center says more kids are eating it, thinking it is candy. Parent Jessica Sutton says her 18-month-old daughter picked up one of the packets that had fallen from a laundry room shelf. "She was throwing up, she was ...
Teens charged in Roswell with vandalism
Police have charged two teenagers who they say set fires and scrawled hate-filled messages in a Roswell neighborhood. "I think it's ridiculous that people vandalize stuff," witness Grace Bowes said. Officers came to the Wildwood Springs Subdivision after getting calls about a fire. Lisa Holland with the Roswell Police Department ...
Investigators still don’t know cause of I-20 bus wreck
Investigators still aren’t sure what set off a nasty chain-reaction crash involving six school buses Saturday in Newton County, but investigators have told WSB's Richard Sangster that charges are possible. About 65 people were hurt when the buses from Burke County Middle School in Waynesboro crashed on their way to ...
Chain-reaction school bus crash injures 50
About 50 people are hurt after six school buses from Burke County crashed on their way to Six Flags in Newton County. Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright says the buses were traveling on I-20 westbound when the crash happened near Social Circle Saturday morning. “As the buses slowed, one ...
Ga. Tech frat kicked off campus because of hazing complaints
A Georgia Tech fraternity has been suspended from campus for two years after hazing complaints. The Beta Theta Pi fraternity has been on the campus since the early 20th century, but the school is taking its privileges away. "Obviously hazing is against school rules, but it goes on a lot ...
1 in 12 Georgia jobs tied to port activity
A new study out of the University of Georgia finds nearly 157,000 metro Atlanta jobs are dependent on port activity. Dr. Jeffrey Humphreys, Director of Economic Forecasting at UGA, says dredging Savannah's harbor is key to economic stability. "We're not just talking about growing the economic impact of Savannah's ports, ...
Police: Kid shot in DeKalb planning to burglarize homes
Authorities in DeKalb County are investigating how a 12-year old boy was shot. Police now say it's unclear how it happened. "We have located a gun in a wooded area," says Dekalb Public Safety Director William Miller. "We believe that was the weapon that was used." "Two of the other ...
Zip line industry takes hit from flesh-eating bacteria
Graduate student Aimee Copeland continues to battle a flesh-eating bacteria after suffering a fall from a homemade zip line. Historic Banning Mills Founder Michael Holder tells Channel 2 Action News he has noticed a 30 percent decline in business since this tragedy unfolded earlier this month. "People were afraid to ...
CSX train hit and kills man
Authorities in DeKalb County say a CSX train hit a man who was on the tracks. The man, only identified as in his 30's, was killed. Police say the man was trespassing in a 'restricted area' at the time of the accident. It happened just off of Main Street, near ...
Carrollton residents give blood in support of Aimee Copeland
The Carrollton community turned out to help a University of West Georgia graduate student, fighting against flesh-eating bacteria. Aimee Copeland, 24, is at a hospital in Augusta. Residents donated blood Tuesday at the student center gym at the University of West Georgia. "We're a small town. A lot of people ...
JP Morgan Chase screw up cost Ga. teachers $40 million
Problems at the nation's largest bank are having a trickle-down effect in Georgia classrooms. Last week, JP Morgan Chase announced it lost $2 billion in complicated investments that went bad. On paper, the loss has cost the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia nearly $40 million. The group's executive director, Jeff ...
Beating of cop's wife may have been robbery
A DeKalb County police officer's wife is in critical condition following a brutal attack at her home. Police say the unidentified woman was found beaten and unconscious near the couple's garage in Lithonia early Sunday morning. Police say Sgt. Jerry Banks and his wife lived in the home together. Public ...
DeKalb police officer's wife attacked
A DeKalb County police officer's wife is in critical condition following a brutal attack at her home. Police say the unidentified woman was found beaten and unconscious near the couple's garage in Lithonia early Sunday morning. Police say the officer and his wife lived in the home together. There's no ...
2 men arrested in Ill. for killing 1 woman & kidnapping another
Two men are under arrest in Lake County, Illinois for shooting a woman to death in DeKalb County last month. Police say another woman was kidnapped and raped. Cristian Hernandez, 22, and Jose Juarez-Vidales, 41, were arrested last week at a motel outside Chicago. The woman, who police say, Hernandez ...
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