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  • Shoplifting suspect captured in Conyers

    CONYERS, Ga. -- A shoplifting suspect has been captured after causing multiple traffic accidents in Conyers Wednesday afternoon. The man ran from police after trying to shoplifting at a T.J.Maxx. He caused a chain reaction crash and wrecked his car before escaping on foot in the area of Old Covington Road and Buchanan Circle, according to Conyers Police. The suspect was eventually caught and ...

  • Atlanta police allege bank employee tricked woman out of $10000

    Atlanta police say they arrested a bank employee accused of stealing $10,000 he tricked an elderly customer into withdrawing from her account. Daniel Araujo, a personal banker at ...

  • Children bitten by fox at Covington school

    COVINGTON, Ga. -- Two children were bitten by a fox at Rocky Plains Elementary School in Covington. The fox came onto the playground of the school at around 11:45 a.m. and bit two 6-year-old boys, said Newton County Animal Control Director Teri Kay-Hooson. Both boys were taken to Newton County Medical to be treated for the ...

  • Suspect named in Clifton Road shooting

    ATLANTA -- Atlanta Police have identified the man accused of shooting a woman through the window of her Clifton Road home last week. Khyree Houston is wanted ...

  • Pit bill that killed 2 year old put down

    Read the police report The child was attacked in his south Fulton County home on Apr. 24. Animal control officials confirmed Wednesday that the pit bull was euthanized on May ...


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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

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  • 8 year old shot in her bed suspect IDd

    ATLANTA -- Police have identified the man accused of shooting an 8-year-old girl as she slept in her bed. Investigators plan to charge 33-year-old Jacobe Antoine Gilbert with aggravated assault. The incident happened around 10:30 p.m. Monday at the Hollywood Shawnee Apartments on Gun Club Road in northwest Atlanta. Atlanta Police Night Commander Capt. Tim Peek said Gilbert got in an argument ...

  • Brooks to be arraigned on federal fraud charges

    ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia state Rep. Tyrone Brooks is set to appear in court for arraignment on federal fraud charges. Brooks is scheduled to appear before federal Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman on Wednesday. A 30-count federal indictment handed down last week charges him with mail fraud, wire fraud and filing false tax ...

  • Governor Deal Atheists can put books in state park rooms

    ATLANTA (AP) -- Gov. Nathan Deal says he believes in the right of atheist groups to donate literature for use in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks just as Bibles are ...

  • Parapro arrested for having sex with special needs student

    LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- A female paraprofessional at Special Needs School of Gwinnett was arrested for having sex with a 17-year-old student. Kari Lynn Bryan, 38, was arrested May 17 on a sexual assault charge. She was released from the Gwinnett County Jail on $5,700 ...

  • Henry County home damaged by fire

    HAMPTON, Ga. -- A house in Hampton was heavily damaged a fire Wednesday morning. The fire broke out just before 5:30 a.m. at a house on Graystone Drive, according to Henry County Fire Capt. Sabrina Puckett. The flames were highest in the garage and attic of the one-story home. Puckett said fire officials searched the house after receiving a tip that someone may be inside. They later learned ...

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