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  • Savannah Man Pleads Guilty to Two Armed Robberies

    SAVANNAH, GA-Rico Lavon Edwards, 30, of Savannah, Georgia, pled guilty earlier this month before United States District Court Judge B. Avant Edenfield for his role in the armed robberies of the Savannah Postal Credit Union and of Barnett Educational Supplies. According to evidence presented during his guilty plea hearing, on November 8, 2012, Edwards, along with an accomplice, committed an ...

  • DeKalb Co. recruit dies during jail certification training

    DECATUR, Ga. -- A detention officer recruit died on Tuesday during his second day on the job. The recruit became ill during officer training at the DeKalb County Sheriff's office. According to DeKalb Co. authorities, 29-year-old George Ward began to show signs of illness during a routine morning physical fitness training session. The officer was transported to the DeKalb Medical Center ...

  • Shoplifting suspect saught in Conyers

    CONYERS, Ga. -- Police are looking for a shoplifting suspect who caused 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. His name has not been ...

  • MLB Atlanta 8 Minnesota 3

    Evan Gattis hit a grand slam home run to close a five-run fourth inning for Atlanta Wednesday in the Braves' 8-3 interleague win over Minnesota. It was the sixth consecutive win for the Braves while Minnesota is going the other way with an eight-game losing streak. Gattis hit his 10th homer of the year while Ramiro Pena ...

  • 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 ...


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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

After the one-two punch of 2006s Dead Mans Chest and 2007s At Worlds End, which ran a combined 320 minutes and took every fantastical pirate clich imaginable and bloated them to epic proportions, it is hard to imagine that there w ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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