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Veronica Waters is the morning news anchor on KISS 104.1 and B-98.5FM. She is also an anchor and reporter for 95.5FM and AM750 News/Talk WSB. She is also the staff expert on legal affairs and the courts. In 2007, the Radio-Television News Directors Association named Waters' series on "Snaring Internet Predators" best in the region with an Edward R. Murrow award for Investigative Reporting.
She has been honored by several professional organizations for news and sports feature reporting, and was named in 2003 as the Atlanta Press Club's Radio Journalist of the Year. Waters has covered an assortment of high-profile cases from Mayor Bill Campbell's corruption trial to the murder trials of activist-turned imam Jamil Al-Amin and of former DeKalb County, GA Sheriff Sidney Dorsey.
She served as the station's correspondent for the murder trial of accused "Black Widow" Lynn Turner, and the death penalty case of double murderer Stacey Humphreys. One of the biggest legal cases in Atlanta history involved the notorious Gold Club racketeering trial. Waters covered this unfolding drama not only for WSB Radio and radio stations throughout America, but also for a worldwide audience on BBC Radio. Waters joined WSB in 1997 as an anchor and reporter. She began her journalism career at the Southern Urban Network and Mississippi Network in Jackson, MS. Waters attended Alcorn State University and Mississippi State University, and enjoys cheering for the NFL's Tennessee Titans.
While there's been a spike in cases of school standardized test cheating nationwide, a noted educator says Georgia stands as a role model when it comes to digging up the corruption. FairTest, a nonprofit which works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing, documented more than 50 ways ...
What woman doesn't want to pack heat in a pretty purse? Leslie Deets, co-owner of the gun range SharpShooters USA in Roswell, says as women started reacting to headlines and becoming more gun-savvy, buying and learning to use weapons, she added the range’s concealed carry and defensive handgun classes to ...
When it comes to texting behind the wheel, the people who should be the role models are setting a really bad example. A new AT&T survey of more than 1,000 adults found 49% of them admit texting while driving--compared to 43% of teenagers. Not only that, 98% of adults say ...
A new smartphone app lets parents spy on their kids--for their own protection, of course. A St. Louis, Missouri dad invented the "Catch Me If You Can" and "Protect Me If You Can" apps for Android. "If You Can" allows parents to track kids' smartphones via GPS, and to create ...
Two more arrests have been made in connection with the shocking case of a Brunswick toddler shot to death in his stroller last week--and a key piece of evidence may be coming to light. De'Marquise Elkins' aunt told cops that the 17-year-old was eating eggs, sausage and grits she had ...
What you don't know about your local hospital could be putting your health at risk. Healthgrades.com did a consumer study that found people typically spend more time choosing a refrigerator than choosing a doctor or a hospital. For example, 51% of people spent one to five hours selecting a new ...
The owners of the Country Store, located at 298 W. Main Street in Buford, came into work recently and found that a burglar had taken $1500 worth of cigarettes and 15 lottery tickets. Gwinnett Corporal Jake Smith tells WSB, "actually before the burglary was discovered because he took some ...
The number of people sickened by a deadly meningitis outbreak has now reached 105 cases. The death toll is now eight, rising one since the previous update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Officials have tied the fungal meningitis outbreak to steroid shots for back pain. The steroid ...
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 ...
A former Georgia Institute of Technology student has pled guilty for illegally logging into the University's grading system and changing his grades. In July 2011, Shayan Panjwani was attending Georgia Tech and school offiicials say he accessed the intitute's grading system without authorization and increased his recorded grades in two ...
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