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Gwinnett woman is region’s 1st West Nile fatality of 2012
An elderly woman in Gwinnett County is metro Atlanta’s first death this year from the West Nile disease, Channel 2 Action News reported. The 78-year-old victim, whose name was not disclosed, died within the past month and was one of four deaths out of 44 cases so far this year ...
Video: Tattoos mark suspect in SCAD robbery
A suspect in the robbery earlier this month of two Savannah College of Art and Design students has incriminating tattoos on his head, according to surveillance video released by Atlanta police on Wednesday.The alleged bandit has a tattoo of the Falcons logo between his eyes, and a PacMan symbol tattooed ...
Gwinnett bakery sued over missing wedding cake
More people who say they were victims emerged Wednesday in the case of a Gwinnett County bakery that took orders and money for wedding cakes but allegedly failed to deliver before going out of business. Toye Akinsanya told Channel 2 Action News that he and his wife Bridget ordered two ...
Bicyclist critically hurt in Marietta hit-run
Cobb County police are seeking a motorist who they say struck and critically injured a bicyclist early Wednesday morning and then kept going. The accident happened at 5:21 a.m. on southbound Canton Road just north of Piedmont Road in Marietta, police said. Anthony Randolph Dixon, 49, of Marietta was riding ...
Lawyer denies molestation charges against Gwinnett pastor
A pastor of a Gwinnett County church was arrested Tuesday and charged with child molestation, authorities said.Henry Ellis Lackey, 59, pastor of Free Will Pentecostal Church in Buford, was charged with one count each of enticing a child for indecent purposes, child molestation and aggravated sodomy, according to the Auburn ...
Gwinnett brides cakeless after wedding bakery closes
More than a dozen brides-to-be are facing cakeless weddings after a Gwinnett County bakery allegedly took their orders and then closed its doors, Channel 2 Action News reported. “I was stunned. My mouth dropped,” Michelly Gonzales said when she learned Celso’s Cakes in Norcross apparently has gone out of business. ...
Gwinnett cops seek public’s help in Hertz worker’s killing
Gwinnett County police on Monday appealed to the public for help solving the slaying of a Hertz Rent-a-Car employee who was found fatally wounded behind the rental car office next to the Gwinnett Transit Center. Monique Marlowe, 24, of Duluth was cleaning a car between 5 and 5:30 p.m. Friday ...
Cobb man charged with DUI with child, wrecking school fence
A Cobb County man was charged with child endangerment and other offenses after he allegedly drove drunk, knocked down a fence at an elementary school and kept going with a 6-year-old child in his vehicle, Channel 2 Action News reported. The incident happened about 7:40 a.m. Wednesday at Mountain View ...
Gwinnett neighbors fret over resident alligator
An alligator that has made itself at home in a Gwinnett County pond has neighbors concerned. Authorities suspect an alligator this far north did not get there on its own, but started out as a pet that someone dumped in Dunlin Lake, off James Road in Lawrenceville. However it got ...
Rabun remains ID’d as Kennesaw hiker Masters
Human remains found earlier this month off a Rabun County trail have been confirmed to be those of a 56-year-old Kennesaw man who disappeared in the area in July, authorities said Monday.The GBI Division of Forensic Science on Friday positively identified the remains as those of missing hiker Richard Arnold ...
Wrong-way DeKalb U-Haul chase ends in crash
An Atlanta woman was in jail and her alleged shoplifting accomplice was being sought by police after they allegedly led officers on a wrong-way chase on U.S. 78 before crashing.Nicole Denise Freeman, 42, was being held without bond Friday evening in DeKalb County jail, charged with two felonies: theft by ...
Gold-toothed tattoo artist sought in sex assault
Atlanta police released a sketch Friday of a neighborhood tattoo artist sought in connection with a sexual assault on the city’s southwest side. The man, known only by the street name of “Faco,” is accused of attacking a woman in an apartment on Campbellton Road SW near Childress Drive SW ...
Florida motorist charged with DUI in fatal Cobb wreck
A Florida man was charged with vehicular homicide and DUI after police said he hit another car near Kennesaw late Wednesday night, sending the second car careening off the road and fatally injuring its driver. Cobb County police Thursday night were seeking to determine if a drinking establishment had overserved ...
Atlanta SCAD students bound, robbed in Midtown dorm
Atlanta police are seeking a pair of intruders who allegedly robbed two students Wednesday morning in a Midtown dormitory of the Savannah College of Art and Design.The incident happened about 6 a.m. at the Spring House, an on-campus housing facility in the 1400 block of Spring Street NW in Midtown, ...
Loaded guns seized at 2 DeKalb high schools
Police in DeKalb County recovered loaded guns at two separate schools in the last two days – one found on the ground after a fight involving a number of students, and the other allegedly taken from the purse of a 16-year-old girl, Channel 2 Action News reported. A gun was ...
Missing Chamblee girl found safe
An 11-year-old Chamblee girl who disappeared after leaving school Tuesday afternoon was found safe later that night after a massive search involving dozens of police officers. The child was found shortly before midnight at the Chamblee MARTA station, Chamblee police Capt. Michael Beller told the AJC. “She’s safe and in ...
4th suspect arrested in Decatur killing
DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputies said they arrested a fourth suspect Tuesday in the shooting death of a Decatur man during an armed robbery. Craig Tellis, wanted in the Sept. 2 slaying of Antorey Harris, was found hiding in the back room of a home in the 1400 block of Everhart ...
DeKalb school officer hurt in student brawl
A DeKalb County school resource officer has undergone surgery and faces four to five months of recuperation after breaking his ankle when he intervened in a student brawl at Tucker High School. The fight broke out Wednesday after dismissal time behind the school, Channel 2 Action News reported. Four students ...
Walton Academy football player ‘critical but stable’ after collapse
A Walton County youth was in critical but stable condition in an Atlanta hospital, three days after he collapsed during football practice at school earlier in the week, his family said in a statement Thursday afternoon. Jon Ross Snell was flown by medical helicopter to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at ...
Remains could be missing Kennesaw man
Rabun County authorities reported Monday the discovery of human remains that could be those of a 56-year-old Cobb County man who disappeared in the area in July.Items found with the body “led investigators to believe that the remains may be associated with the missing person case surrounding the disappearance of ...
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