1. Appeal overturns Johns Creek baseball playoff loss. Johns Creek's baseball team won an appeal Monday before the GHSA's board of trustees to overturn a Game 2 state-playoff loss to Lee County last week. In a rare move by any state high school association, the GHSA trustees voted 5-2 to overrule a judgment call and change the outcome of a game. [Read more]
2. 13 arrested in Georgia prostitution sting. Authorities on Friday set up shop along Friendship Road in Buford, where men and women were looking for or selling sex, Hall sheriff's spokesman Don Scalia said. Officials posed as prostitutes or panderers to make the arrests, Scalia said. [Read more]
3. Buckhead woman shot in head during attempted armed robbery. A woman was shot in the head while walking down a Buckhead street with her fiancé Saturday morning, according to Channel 2 Action News. The couple were walking from a show about 3 a.m. on East Paces Ferry Road when armed robbers jumped out of a red SUV and pointed a gun at them, the woman told the news station. [Read more]
4. Teen arrested in deadly house party shooting. Dexter Deshawn Covington surrendered to officials Friday night after warrants were taken out for his arrest in the murder of 17-year-old Jesse Thomas. Thomas, a Stockbridge High School senior, was celebrating his acceptance into Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Fla., during the May 13 shooting at a home in McDonough. [Read more]
5. Rabid cat attacks 3 in Gwinnett; county issues warning. Gwinnett County officials are warning residents to be careful around animals "behaving in unusual ways" after a rabid cat attacked people and pets in Norcross last week. [Read more]
