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Police seek car after elderly woman found dead by husband
Police are looking for a missing Toyota Camry after a man found his wife dead in Lawrenceville. It's not clear how the 72-year-old died, but police are investigating the death as a possible homicide. The woman's husband and a caregiver found the woman at about 10:30 Tuesday morning. Missing from ...
Prosecution: Defendant denied involvement in Tillman's death
Tuesday brings another day of testimonty in the beating death trial of teenager Bobby Tilman, who was killed at a party in November 2010. The lead investigator testified on Monday that defendant Tracen Franklin initially denied any involvement in Tilman's death. "I told [Franklin], 'You're not being honest and truthful ...
One-man chop shop in Gwinnett County
A Lawrenceville man has been charged with running a one man chop shop. Gwinnett County Police Corporal Jake Smith tells WSB stolen car parts led police to the suspect. A neighbor told the victim another neighbor may have been responsible. "The victim actually took it upon himself to drive past ...
Arrests made in Monday vandalism at East Paulding H.S.
Tracking down and arresting two suspected vandals took police about 36 hours. Early Monday morning, vandals spray-painted graffiti at East Paulding High School. It was the second such incident in less than six months. The vandals had written about 20 spray-painted graffiti messages on the walls of two hallways and ...
Police: Roswell nurse forged doc’s signature for drugs
A 27-year-old nurse has been arrested after she forged a doctor’s signature to get drugs, Roswell police said. "Obviously," says Officer Lisa Holland with Roswell Police, "she has easy access to prescription pads." The suspect is a labor and delivery nurse at Northside Hospital in Sandy Springs. "She went to ...
Cars shut down I-285 to do donuts
A dangerous stunt on I-285 has some safety officials in an uproar. "I have seen and done some stupid things in my life," says Director Harris Blackwood with the Governor's Office of Highway Safety. "That's a whole 'nother realm of stupid." The Youtube video shows cars doing donuts on I-285 ...
Hwy 316 wrong-way driver had propofol
The drug that killed Michael Jackson may have also been the source of a severe crash in Gwinnett County, last Friday. Beverly Wilkins, 37, was driving on the wrong side of the median, when she crashed into oncoming traffic on Highway 316 near Highway 29. Three people are still in ...
Two dead in wrong-way crash on I-85 in Fulton Co.
A second person has died in the fourth wrong-way crash on metro Atlanta roads in two weeks. The latest wreck happened around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday when a man got turned around and started driving south in the northbound lanes on I-85 near I-285 in Fulton County. "We don't know where ...
Funeral for Gainsville teen; homicide investigation continues
Friends and family members gathered to pay their respects, after a teenager was killed in Hall County.. The body of 16-year-old Hannah Truelove was found in a wooded area near her home, last Friday. She had not been seen since early the day before. Truelove's funeral was set for 11 ...
Four-year-old shot in minivan
A four-year-old has been shot. “Definitely, this is an awful tragedy,” says Clayton County Police Lieutenant Chris Windley. Investigators are trying to piece together an apparently accidental shooting in a minivan, late Wednesday morning. A mother and her four young children were traveling in a minivan on Jonesboro Road. The ...
Teen sentenced in shooting of 8-year-old cousin
The teenager charged with murdering his 8-year-old cousin has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Charlie Oliver was 16 when he said he was playing with a 9mm handgun in the room he shared with his cousin, Solomon Zellner. His finger caught the trigger, he says, and Zellner was ...
Suspect arrested in rape of mother, daughter
A man is now behind bars accused of sexually attacking a mother and daughter in Clarkston. It happened early Monday morning. A 40-year old woman and her 15-year old daughter were sexually assaulted in their apartment. As the mother was being raped, her daughter, who had already been assaulted, slipped ...
Sexual assaults against mother and daughter in Clarkston
Clarkston Police are questioning a man in connection with the Monday morning rape of a woman and her 15-year-old daughter. Detective Vernon Sands tells Channel 2 Action News the suspect, armed with a knife, broke into the Southern Pines Apartments on Montreal Road around one o'clock in the morning. "He ...
Rapist uses internet to lure victims
Police say a 17-year-old from College Park has been meeting women online, then robbing and raping them. Jalyn Connor faces charges of rape and armed robbery among other charges. The crimes happened in College Park. Police say the teen would arrange meetings with the victims, show a weapon, then force ...
Second fire at Tyler Perry Studios
Another fired started at the Tyler Perry Studios in southeast Atlanta, Monday. Firefighters were able to get the fire under control in less than an hour. It was confined to the roof of a building that was undergoing repairs. The building didn't sustain any structural damage. Authorities are investigating the ...
Football coach's alleged sexting draws suspension
Sexting may have landed a metro Atlanta high school football coach in some very hot water. The single mother of two boys on the Martin Luther King High School football team says their 51-year-old coach sent her naked photos. After rejecting his advances, she says coach Mike Carson started punishing ...
Andrea Sneiderman to be released on bond
Andrea Sneiderman spent one more night in the DeKalb County Jail, but it should be her last before her trial. The woman charged with helping to murder her husband, Rusty Sneiderman, outside a daycare in Dunwoody is expected to be out of jail sometime Wednesday. Sneiderman was granted $500,000 bond ...
Erickson: Akin to drop out after "legitimate rape" comment
WSB talk show host and RedState.com blogger Erick Erickson expects Senate candidate Todd Akin to drop out of the race. On Monday, Missouri Congressman Akin apologized for televised comments he made the day before, saying the female body has ways of trying to prevent a pregnacy for the victim of ...
Alcohol may have contributed to deadly wrong-way wreck on Ga. 400
Police say it’s hard to miss the signs on Ga. 400 in Buckhead that say “Wrong Way.” Despite the warnings, a Marietta woman still ended up on the wrong side of the freeway. That mistake led to a crash that killed her, another man and has left third person in ...
Gwinnett police release photos, hope to ID dead man
Police hope to identify a man found dead in unincorporated Norcross by releasing photos of his tattoos. The victim had two tattoos. One of them is a tribal arm-band. The other was originally described as a "unique tattoo in a unique location." The photo shows a Mickey Mouse tattoo, but ...
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