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You might be a redneck...

Johnny Crawford / jcrawford@ajc.com

... If you attended the annual Redneck Games Saturday in East Dublin. A gooey mud pit and a toilet seat toss were among the draws. Above, Eric Outler kisses the pig foot that won him the championship for pig feet bobbing. • Photos | • Video

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Four drown at Lake Lanier over weekend
Four people drowned at Lake Lanier during the Fourth of July weekend, including two Alpharetta men who jumped in the lake to push their rented pontoon boat off a sandbar during a late-night rainstorm.

Police: Arranged marriage led father to kill daughter
A Clayton County man faces murder charges in the strangling death of his 25-year-old daughter early Sunday over her desire to end an arranged marriage.

Gwinnett teachers accused of CRCT cheating
Complaints against two Gwinnett County teachers accused of trying to help students cheat on a standardized test were among several cases sent to a state ethics agency recently.

Officer charged in security guard's death
Cobb County authorities charged a 36-year-old Atlanta police officer with killing a security guard at a Marietta apartment complex after the guard inexplicably barged into the officer's residential unit early Saturday.