This should be a stellar Memorial Day weekend, with plenty of sunshine, lots of baseball, jazz in the park and gasoline cheaper than anyone expected it to be heading into the summer vacation season. Some of the warmest temperatures so far this year are predicted, with highs climbing into the low 90s on Saturday for the first time since last September.

A rookie Gwinnett County police officer was arrested by his own department Friday for allegedly electronically furnishing obscene material to minors. David D. Lowe, 26, who graduated from the police academy May 10, resigned following his arrest when he was notified of the department's intention to fire him, police said.

Two candidates vying to unseat Gwinnett County District 3 Commissioner Mike Beaudreau have taken an interesting strategy -- attack each other. This week, Mike Korom posted on his campaign website an 8-year-old letter of reprimand to Tommy Hunter, which outlined a series of conflicts of interest when Hunter was a senior construction manager for the county.

A missing Alzheimer's patient found Friday morning along the Chattahoochee River died in a hospital, Channel 2 Action News reported. Richard Chang Lee, 72, went missing Thursday afternoon from his Duluth home. A Georgia State Patrol helicopter spotted Lee lying face down, partly in the water, early Friday morning, and National Parks Service rescuers, aided by Gwinnett County police and fire departments, were able to rescue him.

A Gwinnett man charged with tattooing an underage girl says he's innocent and expects the charges to be dropped. Aaron Joshua Woody, 23, turned himself in this week after a Buford woman came to Lawrenceville police with her 15-year-old daughter, who had the word "Faith" tattooed on her right shoulder.

Heightened fears about a series of burglaries and fires targeting abortion and OB-GYN clinics around metro Atlanta have triggered heightened security across the country. The FBI, which is leading a joint investigation, , is looking at the cases as possibly domestic terrorism or civil rights violations, according to ATF spokesman Richard Coes.

Aimee Copeland, the Snellville woman battling a flesh-decaying disease, sat up in a chair for the first time since she was hospitalized, her father said. Copeland was able to leave her bed Tuesday after her mother, Donna, asked a nurse if it would be possible, her father reported Thursday on a Facebook page dedicated to Aimee.

The Lilburn home that was the site of a meth lab fire that killed three children last year will be demolished in the next few days, Gwinnett County police said. The department said it received notification that the likely three-day process to tear down the house in the 1100 block of Spring Mill Drive will start soon.

Doctors who expressed concerns about a controversial abortion bill at the State House say they have since been victims of a series of property crimes, the latest of which was a fire Wednesday at a Marietta abortion clinic. Investigators in Gwinnett and Cobb counties and in the cities of Lilburn and Sandy Springs will be comparing notes about their respective cases in the wake of the second fire this week, said Gwinnett police spokesman Cpl.

After meeting a teenager online, a 28-year-old Gwinnett County man allegedly invited the teen and a friend to his home so the three could play video games. But Snellville police say the man had other intentions. Matthew Ronald Crawford is accused of enticing the two boys, ages 13 and 15, for sex, according to police.

Peachtree Corners has little more than a month to settle on a facility for city operations, a bank for the city's accounts and how to build an annual budget. Mayor Mike Mason, city council members and their paid consultants spent much of Tuesday's work session considering those details and others, in an effort to build a government from scratch before Peachtree Corners officially begins operation July 1.

A Gwinnett man is feeling the wrath of a mother after he allegedly tattooed her daughter at his home in Lawrenceville. Aaron Joshua Woody, 23, was arrested and charged with four counts of tattooing an underage person. Lawrenceville police said a Buford woman came to them May 5 with her 15-year-old daughter, who had the word "Faith" tattooed on her right shoulder blade.

A controversial plan that could possibly bring commercial flights into Gwinnett County’s Briscoe Field didn’t make it Tuesday night’s Board of Commissioners meeting agenda. But that did not stop more than 500 county residents from flying into the meeting to speak mostly against the proposal.

A man wanted in connection with at least 10 armed robberies was caught by authorities Monday, Gwinnett County police said. Rufus Jerome Smith, 25, attempted to run from police and a Taser was used to subdue him, police said Tuesday. He was arrested without further incident.

Thunderstorms headed east out of the metro Atlanta area Tuesday night, giving way to cloudy skies and temperatures dipping to the low- to mid-60s by daybreak Wednesday. "Drier air rolls in tomorrow and the rest of the week," Channel 2 Action News meteorologist David Chandley said.

A Cartersville man had his sixth surgery Tuesday after contracting the same flesh-decaying bacterial infection as Aimee Copeland. Bobby Vaughn, 33, is the third person whose infection has come to light in recent weeks in the region. Vaughn, the owner of a landscaping company, had skin grafts Tuesday to repair areas where his flesh was cut away after he fell ill in early May after getting a small cut on his leg.

Monday's arrest was the fifth this year for the 20-year-old Gwinnett County man accused of shooting a tax office employee in the head, police told the AJC Tuesday. Jeremy Williams, of Lawrenceville, faces charges of aggravated assault, armed robbery and two drug charges, all felonies, following his most recent arrest near Norcross, jail records show.

Traffic is moving again on I-85 in northeast Georgia after an early morning truck fire forced authorities to shut down the interstate in both lanes in Barrow County. A nine-mile stretch of the interstate in northern Gwinnett,  Barrow and Jackson counties was shut down in both directions around 3:40 a.

Aimee Copeland, the Snellville woman battling a flesh-decaying disease, is breathing on her own, her father said. Copeland is now focused on taking each breath without the aid of a ventilator, which will help her lungs recover, her father, Andy Copeland, told The Associated Press Monday.

Instead of Gwinnett city leaders spending or hoarding their share of a $32 million settlement with the county, some city residents are insisting they send it back to whom they say are the rightful owners: taxpayers. Georgia's second-largest county has begun paying its 15 cities back for essentially charging them for services the cities already provided.

Gwinnett County authorities are investigating a suspicious fire early Sunday that heavily damaged a doctor's office. Fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge said the blaze was reported about 4:20 a.m. Sunday at Atlanta Gyn-Ob in the 400 block of Pleasant Hill Road near Lilburn.

Gwinnett County residents can discuss a proposed regional transportation sales tax with local officials during a telephone conference at 6:15 p.m. June 7. Voters in 10 metro Atlanta counties will decide on July 31 whether to approve a one percent sales tax for a variety of road and transit improvements.

Two Gwinnett County public buildings have been recognized for their environmentally friendly designs. The U.S. Green Building Council recently awarded LEED Gold certifications to the county’s Senior Services Center in Lawrenceville and its Yellow River Water Reclamation Facility in Lilburn.

The Georgia Taxpayers Alliance plans to demonstrate against a proposed transportation sales tax measure from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday outside the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center, 75 Langley Drive, Lawrenceville. Voters will decide on July 31 whether to approve a new one percent sales tax to pay for a host of road and transit projects.

Overwhelmed by the worldwide response to her suffering, Aimee Copeland's family has, for now, retreated into a cone of silence, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday. But those caught up in the Snellville woman's struggle can still follow it via an elaborate running account on a Facebook page maintained by her father, Andy Copeland.