Local Stories for September 2011
Stories for Thursday, September 22
Water main break shuts down Highway 78
A Gwinnett County highway was shut down Thursday morning as firefighters and utility crews dealt with a huge water main break.Emergency workers evacuated a mobile home park on Highway 78 near Langley Road. The water department was waiting on some heavy equipment so they could break ground to start repairing ...
Stories for Wednesday, September 21
Man hit, killed after walking fiancee to bus stop
A man was struck and killed by a car in Sandy Springs while walking from a bus stop on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Officers told Channel 2’s Mike Petchenik the man had just walked his fiancee to a bus stop on Roswell Road near Spalding Drive. Once the woman got ...
Deal: West Ga. plant could employ more than 400
Gov. Nathan Deal announced that a South Korea-based firm plans to open a high-tech manufacturing facility in west Georgia. Deal said in a statement that Mando Corp. plans to build the facility in an industrial park in Meriwether County, about 60 miles southwest of Atlanta. Deal said the company ...
Protests as Troy Davis execution nears
Hundreds of protestors gathered outside Georgia's death row where Troy Davis faced execution Wednesday despite a furious campaign in the United States and across Europe. Davis' attorneys lost a bid to give him a polygraph test to prove his innocence but planned another late appeal, this one aimed at blocking ...
Riders call HOT lane bike transponders a waste
Motorcyclists are allowed to use the new freeway HOT lanes toll-free so many are wondering why they have to register with The State Road and Tollway Authority. They also want to know who is paying for the thousands of transponder devices that are being sent to them if they’re not ...
Father speaks out after teacher, daughter shot at preschool
The father of a 10-year-old shot in front of a Rockdale County preschool Tuesday fought back tears after seeing his daughter at the hospital. “That’s my baby. She’s not too good right now. She’s in critical condition right now, with a gunshot wound to the head,” Williams said of his ...
Stories for Tuesday, September 20
Board denies clemency for Troy Davis
A Georgia pardons board refused to grant clemency for Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis on Tuesday. Davis' supporters made a last-ditch effort to stop his execution by telling the pardons board that he's innocent and requesting clemency but the board decided not to stop the execution scheduled for ...
Copperhead snake bites on the rise in metro Atlanta
Bill Murray was in the pool behind his Buckhead home when he encountered a copperhead snake, and he’s not alone this summer. Doctors at Atlanta’s Piedmont Hospital tell Channel 2’s Diana Davis they have seen an unusual amount of snake bites this year. The snakes are not aggressive, but experts ...
Bank robbery, chase lead to shootout
A bank robbery led to a shooting and police chase in Gwinnett County on Tuesday, Gwinnett police said. The incident began with an armed robbery at a Bank of America on Sever Road, Gwinnett police Cpl. Edwin Ritter said. He said officers spotted the car and chased the driver down ...
Husband arrested in preschool shooting
A man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of his wife and her 10-year-old daughter in front of a Christian academy Tuesday morning. The shooting happened just after 6:30 a.m. at the Little Mountain Christian Academy, which is located at Highway 155 and Fairview Road. The mother of ...
Mom says son left on school bus
A Bartow County mother said she is upset after someone left her 3-year-old son on a school bus for over five hours. Jessica Cooley’s son, Jamari, attends the Stars Pre-K program for speech therapy. According to Cooley, the bus picked up her son at 6:40 a.m. on Sept. 9. She ...
Student who got lottery scholarship wins $250K
A recent Georgia State University graduate who had received the lottery-funded HOPE scholarship ended up winning a $250,000 top prize in a lottery game. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that 23-year-old Joseph Crandall of Roswell won the money playing Jeep Outdoor Adventure. Crandall had received the HOPE Scholarship while ...
Juvenile accused of punching MARTA driver
MARTA said they have arrested a juvenile accused of attacking a bus driver. The attack happened as the passenger got off the bus at Martine Luther King Jr. Drive and Wellington Street early Saturday morning. MARTA officials said the driver had been fighting with the juvenile. At some point, the ...
Deputies serving warrant find man cooking meth
Police in Rockdale County said a man in in jail after authorities found him cooking meth. Charles Nichols, 50, was charged with manufacturing methamphetamines. Rockdale County sheriff’s deputies went to a home on Old Salem Road in Conyers on Monday to serve him with a child molestation warrant. That charge ...
13-year-old trapped after truck crashes into pole
Utility crews worked overnight to restore power after a hit and run suspect crashed and split a power police in half. The crash happened near the intersection of Harmony Church Road and Georgia 400 in Dawson County. Channel 2 Action News reporter Darryn Moore was at the scene and said ...
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