Stories for May 2008
Stories for Friday, May 30
Police: Loganville Woman Confesses To Beating Adopted Children
A Loganville detective said it is the worst case of child abuse she's ever seen.Police arrested a Loganville woman on charges of whipping and abusing her three adopted children.An extension cord turned whip is what Loganville police said 56-year-old Shirley Allen used to hit her three teenage adopted children."It was ...
Mother Pleads Guilty To Killing Her 2-Year-Old Daughter
A case that caused a shakeup in Georgia's Department of Family and Children's Services has ended with a mother pleading guilty to killing her 2-year-old daughter.Shandrell Banks received a life sentence on Thursday for the murder of Nateyonna Banks in November 2006.The case exposed widespread problems in the Fulton County ...
Woman Married To Six Men At Once
A Gwinnett grand jury has indicted a 32-year-old woman on bigamy charges.Shawnta McBride is accused of marrying six men.Authorities say she married them, so they could become American citizens.Four of McBride's grooms were from Ghana, one was from Morocco and one was from London.Police say she never divorced any of ...
City Of Atlanta Accountable For $8 Million In Unpaid Water
The City of Atlanta wants raise water rates by 15 percent. Customers who'll be paying more may be interested to know that thousands of water customers don't bother to pay at all, and many of them are government agencies, starting with the City of Atlanta itself.Channel 2's Richard Belcher sorted ...
Teacher, Student Brawl Caught On Tape
A Stephenson High School substitute teacher and a tenth-grade student have been charged for fighting each other on the last day of school. A cell phone camera captured the entire incident.The fight happened Friday, May 23 on the last day of school. According to an incident report, the two had ...
Report: Heroin Involved In Tech Player's Death
A medical examiner's report shows heroin was involved in the death of a Georgia Tech pitcher who died from an accidental drug overdose. The Fulton County medical examiner's office released the report Friday in the death of 21-year-old Michael Hutts. Chief Medical Examiner Randy Hanzlick issued a statement after an ...
Bear Hit, Killed On I-75 In Cobb
A bear was hit and killed at I-75 and 285 in Cobb County during the Friday morning rush hour.The animal was hit on the ramp leading from the westbound lanes of the Perimeter to 75 south.HERO and police units were called to the scene just after 8:30 a.m. They waited ...
Georgia Girls Knocked Out Of Spelling Bee
An "e" instead of a "u" knocked an Athens girl out of the National Spelling Bee.Cathy Deng made it all the way to the fourth round of the contest Thursday when she was tripped up by the word rosulate. The 13-year-old eighth grader at Hilsman Middle School spelled it r-o-s-e-l-a-t-e ...
4 Wounded In DeKalb County Drive-By Shooting
Four people were wounded Thursday night in a drive-by shooting at a DeKalb County strip mall.The shooting may have been related to an earlier dispute at a game room at the south DeKalb mall, witnesses told police.Two of the victims were inside the game room and two others were hit ...
Motorcycle Chase, Crash Leaves 2 Dead
Two people were killed Thursday night when a high-speed chase ended with an out-of-control motorcycle roaring through a parking lot, bouncing off a parked van and crashing through the front of a Cobb County business. SLIDESHOW: Scene Of Fatal Motorcycle Crash The motorcyclists were part of a large group of ...
Stories for Thursday, May 29
New Georgia Disaster Recovery Centers Open
Friday afternoon at 1 p.m., six new Disaster Recovery Centers (DRCs) will open to provide Georgians who experienced losses from the May tornadoes with the opportunity to get in-person advice about assistance and recovery. The new centers are in Douglas, Emanuel, McIntosh, Jefferson, Twiggs, and Johnson counties. Following Friday, they ...
New Federal Indictment Against Benoit Doctor
A federal grand jury has handed up a 175-count indictment against Dr. Phil Astin, the personal doctor of wrestler Chris Benoit.The indictment claims Astin was prescribing drugs even after obvious signs patients were abusing or selling them. It also states Astin prescribed thousands of pills over 5 years without ever ...
Sleeping Teenager Shot In The Eye
A teenager was shot in the eye early Thursday morning as he lay sleeping inside an apartment. Police said someone tried to set the same apartment on fire minutes before the shooting.Police said it appeared the 17-year-old victim was in the wrong place at the wrong time.“I just heard a ...
Alleged Fake Doctor Arrested At Piedmont Hospital
Police said a man posing as an emergency room doctor, even fooling his wife, was arrested last week at Piedmont Hospital."He told me he was a doctor as well as an electrical engineer," Tammi Perteet told WSB-TV Channel 2 reporter Diana Davis in an exclusive interview.Tammi said Eric Perteet seemed ...
Over $11 Million In Marijuana Plants Seized In Cherokee County
Cherokee County officials seized more than 9,300 marijuana plants with a street value of more than $11 million Wednesday in the northern part of the county.Acting on a tip, officials discovered two "well hidden" marijuana fields. Agents with the Cherokee Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad said it appears the operation had been ...
BOOK REVIEW: Marley And Me
If you have a dog, if you love dogs, or even if you think they’re big, smelly, beasts that are too much trouble, this book is for you. John Grogan makes you laugh, cry, and even contemplate life’s biggest questions. He does all of this while telling his story of ...
Six Flags Cuts Admission Prices
Six Flags Over Georgia is cutting ticket prices by $10 to help consumers battling rising costs.The theme park said the new $39.99 ticket price is effective immediately and will be available for a limited time. Buying the ticket on line cuts the price even further to $29.99.Park officials said rising ...
Police: Decatur Woman Killed Mother, Stole Baby
A Decatur woman was arrested and charged Thursday with murdering a young mother and then kidnapping the victim's infant daughter.Tameisha Suarez, 33, was arrested at her home on Daisy Dr. in Decatur. That's where 5-month-old Precious Diamond Spencer was found Wednesday afternoon after a Levi's Call and police search.The girl's ...
Child Walks Away From Preschool Unnoticed; Worker Charged
A worker at a Cobb County preschool has been charged with felony cruelty to children after police found a 7-year-old walking down the street alone.Police arrested Barbara Ellen Alba, 65, Wednesday.Cobb County police found a 7-year-old boy walking in the area of Pine Mountain Road and Stilesboro Road Wednesday morning. ...
Truck Crash Shuts Down Busy Gwinnett Intersection
A wayward logging truck knocked down a utility pole Thursday morning in Gwinnett County, leaving live wires draped across both streets and railroad tracks.The threat of electrocution shut down the busy intersection at Lawrenceville/Suwanee Rd. and Buford Highway, and stopped trains on the nearby tracks.A second truck trying to drive ...
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