5 things to know tonight: Brian Kemp seeks Trump’s aid in alleged hacking; Santa and dying kid story in doubt and more
1. Brian Kemp seeks Donald Trump's aid in alleged hacking. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp on Wednesday asked President-elect Donald Trump to investigate the Department of Homeland Security's apparent attempt to hack his office's computer system. [Read more]
2. Jewelry thief strikes again at metro Atlanta mall. Doris Payne, who has stolen about $2 million worth of jewelry over the last six decades and reflected on her crimes in a documentary, is in trouble again. [Read more]
3. Will Amanda Davis' arrest impact her return to TV airwaves? The timing is horrendous for Davis, who was just hired last week to take over as a morning news anchor on CBS46 nearly four years after a DUI arrest led her to lose her Fox 5 job in 2013. [Read more]
4. Kids found in home with decomposed dogs, feces, urine. Three children were given to a relative after they were found in a Clayton County home with feces, urine and garbage on the inside and three decomposed dogs on the outside, police said. [Read more]
5. The 2016ing won't stop: Now Santa's story about dying child is in doubt. Enough, 2016. Enough. You took Prince, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen. You took Alan Rickman, Florence Henderson and Alan Thicke. A kid got into a gorilla's habitat and the gorilla was killed. Then people turned Harambe's death a meme fest until the zoo had to ask them to knock it off. [Read more]
