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  • Police seek clues to early Friday shooting

    ATLANTA -- Authorities say an Atlanta police officer spotted a car driving extremely slow on North Ave. early Friday morning and discovered the driver had been shot. Police Night Commander Capt. Tim Peek said the officer blue lighted the car and it pulled into a parking lot at North Ave and Northside Drive NW. That's when the officer determined the male driver had been shot in the ...

  • APS student claims adult attacked her during school assembly

    ATLANTA -- The mother of an Atlanta Public Schools student wants answers from school administrators. Devetrice Hawkins' daughter says she was sitting in a school assembly at Booker T. Washington High School Wednesday morning, when the father of another student burst in and attacked her. According to Atlanta police, a man was arrested Wednesday when he got into an altercation with a female ...

  • Atlantas Gattis proves to be natural

    ATLANTA — As Evan Gattis was rounding the bases, soaking up the cheers from his first grand slam, he noticed the song blaring triumphantly from the speakers at Turner ...

  • 13-year-old boy abducted after getting off school bus

    PALMETTO, Ga -- Palmetto police are looking for a man who abducted a 13-year-old boy after he got off his school bus Wednesday afternoon. The boy's father called police when his son didn't make it home from school. "It was heart aching," the father said. "I love my son and I just didn't know what was going on, he didn't call and I didn't have no way to ...

  • Help Desk Community Hiring Event in Decatur Friday

    11Alive Help Desk wants to make all graduating students, veterans, military members and their spouses aware of this opportunity. The community hiring event will begin at 10:00 a.m. and will run until 2 p.m. at the Laurus Technical Institute located at 523 Church St. in Decatur. Employers in attendance include Metro Brokers - Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate; Comcast Corporate; Georgia ...


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Clean, Shaven [DVD]

Clean, Shaven [DVD]

Lodge Kerrigan's directorial debut, Clean, Shaven, is a daring and disturbing cinematic experiment that takes us inside the mind of a struggling schizophrenic for an unrelenting 80-minute ride. Kerrigan mixes a shaky narrative filled with gaping holes begging to be filled by the ... ...

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  • Emory releases statement on brief afternoon lockdown

    MIDTOWN -- Emory University Hospital Midtown released a statement on Thursday evening after a brief lockdown was lifted. Vince Dollard, Associate Vice President of Communications of Emory University said, "Emory University Hospital Midtown was put on lockdown status this afternoon at approximately 4:30 and it was lifted at approximately 5:45. This was a result of a suspected improper ...

  • Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty

    Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...

  • Michael Parson guilty of attempted murder of wife

    The second day of the Michael Parson attempted murder trial closed with yet another embarrassing revelation as prosecutors read into the record a handwritten letter by the defendant to the woman with whom he was having an affair in which he described himself as a "sociopath." Prosecutors say Parson wrote the apology letter while on the run from police -- a suspect in the shooting his ...

  • Rockdale officer arrested discharged over child molestation charges

    ROCKDALE COUNTY, GA. -- A deputy with the Rockdale County Sheriff's Office has been arrested and terminated after being accused of child molestation in Conyers. 23-year-old Joseph Robert Harding was arrested on Thursday after Conyers Police concluded an investigation that Harding molested a known juvenile female acquaintance in April 2013. After his arrest, Harding was terminated by the ...

  • Clayton officer fired after pointing gun at apt. resident

    LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- "He says he is going to shoot me. And he has his hand on his pistol and he's supposed to be the Courtesy Officer." With those frantic words, Jonathan Fernandez began taking cell phone video of a man who appears to have his hand on a gun. He says the man in the video threatened to shoot him and his dog, after his pit bull mix Big Boy got loose yesterday. He ...

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