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Bob Coxe

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Bob Coxe has anchored Atlanta's Morning News with Marcy Williams since 1993. He's been in the radio business since 1971, with brief forays into teaching and politics. He's been in Atlanta since 1978, and at WSB since 1990. Bob grew up in New England, and graduated from Princeton University in 1969, majoring in English. He and his wife live in Cobb County. They have 2 children, and one grandchild.

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Get a tattoo, get a pay raise

If the company you work for offered you a pay raise to tattoo their logo on your body, would you do it? Dozens of employees of a real estate firm in New York City have said yes, in return for a 15 percent raise for every sale they make. The ...

Cobb County woman charged with embezzling over $700K

A Marietta woman is being held on a one million dollar bail in Cobb County, for allegedly stealing from her former employer. Forty-three-year-old Sharron Rice is accused of forging her boss's signature at Del Development on more than 840 checks over a five-year period.   The company manages apartment complexes.   During ...

Group wants Chip Rogers fired

A government watchdog group has started an online petition to try to get former State Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers fired from his new job. This is Rogers' first week in his newly created $150,000 a year job as an executive producer with Georgia Public Broadcasting. Better Georgia executive director ...

Jasmine Benjamin, 17, (photo provided by family)

Arrest made in murder of Valdosta State coed

An arrest was made in the November murder of a Valdosta State coed from Lawrenceville. The GBI reports 18-year-old Darien Meheux, also of Lawrenceville, was arrested just before midnight Thursday night at the Schley County Sheriff's Office in Ellaville. Meheux, who is also a Valdosta student, had turned himself in ...

Hood's home destroyed by fire

The childhood home of accused Athens cop killer Jamie Hood is described as a total loss, after a New Year's Day fire.   No one was home when the fire at the Rannick Road bungalow broke out shortly before noon Tuesday.   Jamie Hood's parents had left about an hour earlier to ...

Two officers injured in South Fulton chase

Two police officers have been hurt in a high-speed chase that began in Union City, and ended in a wreck on Roosevelt Highway at Phipps Road in Palmetto. The incident began when a person tried to use a bogus credit card at a bank in Union City.  When the police ...

Consumer Reports warns of pork problems

How do you know that pound of bacon or that pack of pork chops you just bought at the grocery store is fit to eat? Consumer Reports tested  200 samples of pork products, and found most were contaminated with potentially harmful bacteria, including Listeria, Salmonella and Enterococcus, an indication of ...

Airlines facing pilot shortage

The nation's airlines are going to need to hire about 60,000 new pilots over the next dozen years, because of retirements and industry growth. "As the Vietnam era group of military pilots have now begun to hit 65, many of these folks are required to retire," says aviation expert Mark ...

Falcons owner Arthur Blank introduced Roger Goodell to the audience. The NFL commissioner also met with Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and endorsed the idea of a new stadium.

Common Cause Georgia raises questions about new stadium

The Atlanta Falcons are in talks with the Georgia World Congress Center Authority on a proposed new stadium, but a member of the board of Common Cause Georgia thinks there's something missing: public input. Attorney and former state legislator Wyke Orr tells WSB the taxpayers are entitled to know how ...

Levels continue to drop in Lake Lanier

The continuing drought prompts the Army Corps of Engineers to release more water from Lake Lanier and West Point Lake, on the Alabama border. September and October tend to be the driest months of the year, and the Corps has been managing both lakes under drought conditions since May. They've ...