Local Stories for May 2012
Stories for Thursday, May 31
College student arrested for building bombs during ATF raid
A federal magistrate judge denied bond for a north Georgia college student Thursday who the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said admitted building bombs. Channel 2 investigative reporter Mark Winne confirmed Wednesday a small army of ATF, FBI, GBI and local law enforcement raided a house in the ...
Family of accused cop killer getting death threats
The family of accused Athens cop killer Jamie Hood claims it's received numerous threatening emails and wants whoever is responsible to stop. Azalee Hood showed Channel 2’s Richard Elliot a printout of the some of the emails she's received over her Gmail account. "They really need to exterminate ...
Obama Administration and HOPE NOW to Host Free Help for Homeowners Event in Atlanta
The Obama Administration’s Making Home Affordable Program, The HOPE NOW Alliance and NeighborWorks® America are bringing the nation’s largest mortgage servicers, along with more than a dozen local, non-profit housing counseling agencies, to Atlanta next week in order to work one-on-one with struggling homeowners in Georgia. The event will ...
Gwinnett commissioner, son plead guilty to bribery charges
Channel 2 Action News has learned Gwinnett County Commissioner Shirley Fanning Lasseter, her son and a third man have pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges. According to prosecutors, the incident stems from a land purchase off Boggs Road in Gwinnett County. “These defendants used the office of a County Commissioner ...
Employee: Some DeKalb school cuts could impact safety
A DeKalb County School Resource Officer warns any cuts to his department could result in a reduction in school safety. William Davidson, an SRO at Stone Mountain High School, told the DeKalb County School Board at a public hearing Wednesday night that cutting 10 officers would have a negative impact ...
Overturned tanker truck shuts down lanes near I-20
All lanes on Fulton Industrial Boulevard reopened Thursday evening, more than seven hours after a tanker overturned on the busy south Fulton road. Channel 2’s Tom Jones spent the day at the scene as crews worked to clean up diesel fuel and the wreck that caused traffic gridlock in the ...
Taxpayers take aim at school board amid $73 million gap
DeKalb County taxpayers took aim at school board members during Wednesday's budget hearing as the district worked to close a $73 million gap. Board members are proposing deep cuts. Some residents objected to an increase in the board's budget as well as the superintendent's. Caroline Lord told Channel 2 Action ...
Stories for Wednesday, May 30
Tucker teen among hundreds at National Spelling Bee
A Tucker teen is among 278 students competing in the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee. Simola Nayak, 13, is an eighth-grader at Henderson Middle School. Simola moved to the second round Wednesday afternoon for spelling the word "habile," which means skillful. Simola said competing against other master spellers brings a ...
Home Depot employee held after shooting in store parking lot
A Home Depot employee accused of shooting at her child’s father will have to remain behind bars. A Clayton County judge denied bond Wednesday for Nikia Jones, 28, who faces two counts of aggravated assault. Nikia Jones met Brandon Jones in the parking lot of the Home Depot along Highway ...
Group demands school calendar cut to ease teacher burdens
A teachers' organization wants DeKalb County to cut the school year by as many as four days to help ease the burden on teachers already facing larger class sizes, more furlough days and a cut in benefits. "The employees have pretty much shouldered the burden of the budget problems over ...
Cleanup continues after water main break floods homes
DeKalb County workers discovered a second water leak, a day after a water main break left a neighborhood under several inches of mud. The original water main break happened Wednesday afternoon. Since then, crews have made major progress on Rockbridge Road. Water crews said a fire hydrant snapped off of ...
Teens among 15 arrested for underage drinking
A neighbor's complaint about loud music at a Suwanee home led to 15 alcohol-related arrests at a party on Memorial Day, police said Tuesday. Suwanee police responded to a home in the 3400 block of Ashley Park Drive about 1 a.m. Monday. An officer noted about 20 people in the ...
Demolition crew tears down home in fatal meth lab explosion
After months of complaints from neighbors, the Gwinnett County home where three children were killed in a meth lab explosion last year was demolished Wednesday morning. "We call this the meth house, and just want it to go away. We are glad. This is amazing," neighbor Sue Burton told Channel ...
Medical crisis leads to deadly building crash
Marietta police say a man who suffered a medical emergency before he crashed his truck into a building has died. Police are investigating the incident as a fatal single-vehicle accident, which happened Tuesday, just before 10 p.m. at the intersection of Roswell Road and Powers Ferry Road. Police said the ...
Person of interest ID'd in 'misappropriation' of PTA funds
A Clayton County parent-teacher association has been forced to shut down over thousands of dollars that went missing. A message dated Feb. 13 said, "All activities of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School PTA must cease due to some serious allegations of misappropriation of funds." Last week, Superintendent Edmond ...
Stories for Tuesday, May 29
Police: Men huffing burned historic mill
A tip from a Facebook user led investigators to four young men now charged in connection with a fire that destroyed a historic mill in Douglas County. Twenty-year-old Christopher Roberts, of Douglasville, 18-year-old Adrian Bond of Shelbyville, Tenn., Terry Carringer, of Hiram, and 17-year-old Jeromie Hand, of Douglasville, will ...
Fulton County cuts funding for 54 nonprofits
Several charities, including one that helps homeless infants and their families, are scrambling to find funding after massive cuts by Fulton County. Nancy Friauf, executive director at Genesis Shelter, told Channel 2’s John Bachman the cuts came as a surprise. She said the agency has received up to $35,000 ...
Man dies after Hall Co. apartment fire
Neighbors said they heard an explosion before a fire that injured a Hall County man on Tuesday. Residents in the Linwood Apartments off Thompson Mill Road in Gainesville said they heard a loud noise and saw smoke around noon Tuesday. "I figured it had to be someone's furnace had blew ...
Plea agreement reached in Atlanta videotaped beating case
The trial for four men accused of beating a gay man in Atlanta was delayed Tuesday morning because the defendants made a plea agreement. The trial of Jarvaris Bradford, Dorian Moragne, Christopher Cain and Dareal Williams was scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m., but the judge announced in open court ...
4-year-old shot at DeKalb County home
A mother will not be charged after her 4-year-old child found a gun in their home and shot himself in the head. DeKalb County police said the incident happened on Cedar Trace Lane in south DeKalb County around 11 a.m. The boy found the handgun in a box inside the ...
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