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Nelson Hicks

Nelson Hicks

Nelson Hicks is the Nelson in Nelson's News on wsbtv.com.

Nelson's News covers the odd, entertaining and unique events happening in and around Atlanta.

Nelson came to WSB-TV in 1999 as a weekend news editor. Three months later, he moved to the sports department where he was named the weekend sports producer and eventually, the weekday sports producer.

In 2007, Nelson became the station's first Internet reporter/photographer. He currently covers stories across Georgia that appear exclusively on wsbtv.com and AccessAtlanta.com.

Nelson has covered numerous concerts, sporting events, feature stories and a wide variety of entertainment stories. He has visited Ann's Snack Bar for a ghetto burger, gone hang gliding in Lookout Mountain, attended Dukesfest, driven a microcar in Madison, toured the Elvis Museum in Cornelia, flew in a Blackhawk with the Atlanta Falcons and interviewed Ludacris, Nikki Taylor, John Travolta, Peyton Manning, the Junkman Artist and a 106-year-old bowler, to name a few.

Nelson worked for WGXA-TV in Macon and for a cable TV news operation in the Atlanta area prior to joining WSB-TV.

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See the Batmobile, Mystery Machine, muscle cars at AutoTrader Classics Octane Car Show

See the Batmobile, the Mystery Machine, Ferraris, muscle cars and much more this weekend as AutoTrader brings the AutoTrader Classics Octane Car Show and Sale to the Georgia World Congress Center. Modeled after popular grass-roots automotive gatherings like Caffeine and Octane in Alpharetta, the show brings together enthusiasts from across ...

  • 9:48 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013

Pro Wakeboard Tour visits Lake Acworth

Take a trip to the beach without leaving the Atlanta area this weekend and check out some of the top athletes in the world. Lake Acworth Beach is hosting the 2013 MasterCraft Pro Wakeboard Tour. The sport's top competitors will be catching air, riding the rails, hitting crazy tricks and ...

  • 2:37 p.m. Friday, May 17, 2013
"These are just creating sculptures of animals out of plants," Atlanta Botanical Garden CEO Mary Pat Matheson told Nelson's News. "It's pretty amazing. It's almost a magical exhibition, I think. Of course having a unicorn really makes it magical."

Botanical garden showcases plants larger than life

"Step into Imaginary Worlds: Plants Larger Than Life" and discover a magical garden where cobras tower overhead, fish dance on water and a giant goddess emerges from the earth. That's how the Atlanta Botanical Garden describes its newest attraction. "These are just creating sculptures of animals out of plants," Atlanta ...

  • 10:06 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Travel 240 feet in the air on new ride at Six Flags

When Six Flags Over Georgia kicks off the summer season of thrills on Memorial Day weekend, there will be one new, very big reason to scream - SkyScreamer. SkyScreamer is the all-new extreme swing ride at Six Flags. It lifts riders 240 feet into the air, 24 stories up. Riders ...

  • 2:52 p.m. Monday, May 13, 2013

Tour Grant Park's best homes on home and garden tour

One of Atlanta's most historic and diverse neighborhoods will be on display this weekend for the 39th annual Grant Park Home and Garden Tour. Eighteen of Grant Park's top spots will be on display. "You have Victorian houses, you have the craftsman bungalows, but you also have newer houses as ...

  • 10:26 p.m. Thursday, May 9, 2013
Saban is set to auction off a Lake Burton home he had built.

Nick Saban's $11 million Lake Burton home to hit auction block

Georgia football fans would love to see fewer visits from Alabama football coach Nick Saban to the Peach State. The good news is, that might soon be the case. The bad news is, it has nothing to do with Saban's football team playing in the SEC Championship at the Georgia ...

  • 7:20 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2013
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Nugent, Styx, REO Speedwagon rock Alpharetta

I heard it from a friend, who heard it from a friend that REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent and Styx rocked a packed house at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater at Encore Park Sunday night. GALLERY: Nugent, Styx, REO Speedwagon rock Alpharetta The Midwest Rock 'N Roll Express Tour featured the three acts ...

  • 10:44 a.m. Monday, May 6, 2013

Third-graders send Woodward assistant principal plunging into the pool

Would he or wouldn't he? That was the question third-grade students at Woodward Academy aimed to answer. Would their assistant principal, all 6-foot-1-inch and 220 pounds of him, float across the pool on floats the students built out of recycled materials for a class project? GALLERY: Could floats built by ...

  • 2:03 p.m. Monday, April 29, 2013
Here are some more photos from the Georgia Renaissance Festival.

Georgia Renaissance Festival brings joust, turkey legs to Fairburn

Where can you find amazing shows, great music, rides for the kids, demonstrations and turkey legs? It's all at the village of New Castle, present day Fairburn, home to the Georgia Renaissance Festival.  "(It's an) eight-week-long festival with the food and the jousting and the staged entertainment and the unstaged ...

  • 9:55 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2013

Local actors walk the red carpet for Shuler Awards

Is the next Daniel Day-Lewis or Jennifer Lawrence roaming the halls of a Georgia high school? The state's top high school acting talent gathered at the Cobb Energy Centre Thursday night for the Shuler Awards. The awards are named for Tony Award-winner and Marietta native, Shuler Hensley, and honor the ...

  • 11:42 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2013
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