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Father: Nanny to blame for drowning of 5-year-olds
The father of one of two 5-year-old girls who drowned in a Paulding County pool says the nanny is "100 percent responsible." Eduardo Juarez told Mundo Hispanico that the girls should never have been outside. Jurarez says they went into the backyard while the nanny was on the phone. ...
Two 5-year-old girls drown in pool in Paulding Co.
Two little girls drown in a backyard swimming pool in Paulding County, and the grandmother of one of the girls faces charges. 5 year old Mia Penoyer of Gwinnett County was visiting her grandmother, a live-in housekeeper for the Juarez family on Mirage Lane in Dallas. Mia was playing with ...
Pizza delivery person murdered
Cedartown Police are looking for two teenagers in the overnight fatal stabbing of a Domino's Pizza deliverywoman. Two officers were conducting a downtown traffic stop around 9:00 p.m. last night when they heard a woman screaming. They ran over to find 27-year-old Elizabeth Hucheson badly beaten with multiple knife wounds. ...
Atlanta neighborhood on endangered places list
Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Historic District is on a new list of America's 11 most endangered historic places. It's the second time the neighborhood has made the list. Stephanie Meeks, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, says they've added 3 black history sites to this year's list: "Malcolm ...
Crooks target White Water parkgoers
Two people have been arrested in a series of recent thefts from patrons at Six Flags White Water Park in Marietta, soon after the place opened. These were plainly crimes of opportunity. Marietta Police Officer David Baldwin tells WSB 18-year-old Xavier Ranson and 27-year-old Amanda Young, both of Marietta, victimized ...
Police arrest driver of Woodstock hit and run
Cobb County Police have arrested a man in connection with this morning's hit-and-run accident on I-575 involving a construction worker. 53-year-old Kenneth Gonzalez of Canton, was arrested without incident. About 9:45, a car headed south on 575 struck the unidentified worker in the construction zone, between Sixes Road and Towne ...
Gas prices drop again, for now
We're getting a break at the gas pump right now, but experts warn it can't last. Prices could even be heading up again by the time your vacation starts. Right now the national average price for regular is $3.64 a gallon, $3.41 in Atlanta, according to gasbuddy.com. Tom Kloza with ...
Couple loses fight with motorsports park
A Metro Atlanta veterinarian and his wife have lost their long legal battle over a motor sports park near their farm in Dawsonville. Dr. West Hamryka and his wife Helen own 86 acres off Thurmond Road in Dawsonville, where she boards and trains horses. Three years ago the city rezoned ...
Atlanta is speed ticket happy
Police will be looking for speeders, and other violators, as drivers head home from the long holiday weekend. However, a motorist rights group thinks the priorities are misplaced. John Bowman with the National Motorists Association says our highways are designed for faster speeds than the laws allow, and enforcement often ...
Flesh eating bacteria at normal levels in river
A lab hired to test the water in the Little Tallapoosa River in West Georgia found normal levels of the flesh-eating Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria that has ravaged Aimee Copeland's body. The city of Carrollton ordered the tests May 14, two weeks after the University of West Georgia graduate student cut ...
Olympic swimmer pushing new initiative
With the holiday weekend coming up, there's an effort under way to teach minority kids how to swim. Cullen Jones, a black swimmer who's training for the Summer Olympics in London, is pushing an initiative called "Make a Splash." In a video posted on the USA Swimming Foundation web site, ...
TSPLOST debate heats up
Backers of the special metro sales tax for transportation (TSPLOST) may wish the vote were now, rather than on July 31. Support for the measure may be weakening, even among local leaders who once favored it. According to Ariel Hart of the AJC, Wednesday, opponents of the referendum touted a ...
VIDEO: Minister rails against Obama, gays
The video of his Mother's Day sermon has gone viral on YouTube. Rev. Charles Worley, pastor of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, rails against President Obama, calling him a "baby-killer and homosexual-lover." He tells the congregation gay people need to be rounded up and put in camps. ...
Popeye's apologizes for service dog flap
A Kennesaw State University student who was ordered out of a Popeye's in Cobb County because of his service dog is thinking of suing. Twenty-year-old Taylor Gipson is diabetic, and his dog is trained to alert when his blood sugar level varies. He had just ordered a meal at the ...
Smyrna triathlete dies after cardiac arrest
A competitor who died during a weekend triathlon on Jekyll Island was an experienced endurance athlete from Metro Atlanta. A verteran of numerous Peachtree Road Races, 44-year-old Christopher Petty of Smyrna, was one of about 700 triathletes taking part in Saturday morning's annual Turtle Crawl event on Jekyll. He signalled ...
2nd teen gets life for cabbie murder
A second Atlanta teenager gets life in prison for the fatal shooting of a cab driver. Nineteen-year-old Samuel Ellis was convicted in the murder of 57-year-old Stephen Anim. According to the AJC, who was found slumped over the wheel of his cab in April 2009. Atlanta police found Anim's body ...
Woman admits stealing $200K from Salvation Army
The former student financial aid director for the Salvation Army's Southeast Regional Office is now a convicted thief. Thirty-seven year old Kelley Jo Taylor Allison Vishnubhotla pleaded guilty during jury selection to 45 counts of theft by taking and three counts of forgery and was sentenced to 30 years, six ...
MetLife to buy Reynolds Plantation
Reynolds Plantation has a buyer. Insurance giant MetLife tells the AJC they've worked a deal to buy the luxury resort community on Lake Oconee. Financial details haven't been made public. "This is a premier community with world-class amenities, a great reputation and a strong future,” Robert Merck, senior managing director ...
New from Domino's, a gluten free pizza
Domino's today becomes the first national pizza delivery chain to offer its pies with a gluten-free crust. Gluten-free products are being seen more and more on grocery store shelves and on restaurant menus, for people with celiac disease who need to stay away from wheat, barley and rye. Dietitian Elisa ...
Last Raptor leaves Lockheed
The last F-22 Raptor fighter jet has left the Lockheed plant in Marietta, bound for Alaska. The Pentagon shut down the program after just 195 of the planes were made, amid concerns about the cost and the need. The F-22 wasn't used during the Iraq war, and is not currently ...
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