1. Cop: Georgia teens partied in home after killing grandparents. After slitting Wendy and Randall Bjorge's throats, 17-year-old Cassandra Bjorge and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Johnny Rider, threw parties and smoked pot in the grandparents' home for days while the bodies decayed, a Gwinnett County police said Wednesday. [Read more]

2. Tennessee student found safe, teacher arrested at California commune. A 15-year-old Tennessee girl who disappeared with her teacher more than a month ago was found safe at a commune in California and her 50-year-old teacher was arrested, authorities said. [Read more]

3. Ga. college cadet awaits penalty for bathroom snapshot of officer. Dante Harris, who took a picture of the assistant commandant of cadets in a University of North Georgia bathroom, appeared before a college disciplinary panel Wednesday. The panel could suspend or expel him or revoke his $70,000 military scholarship. [Read more]

4. Teacher out of classroom after using racial epithet. A Georgia high school teacher is no longer in the classroom after a video of her using a racial epithet surfaced Wednesday night, according to reports. In the video, Murray County High School teacher Jennifer Cooley can be heard saying a slur and puckering her lips. [Read more]

5. Georgia congressional District 6: Republicans vs. Democrats votes. Democrat Jon Ossoff may have gotten nearly half the votes cast in the District 6 special election yesterday. But the run-off in June will be much different. To get a sense of how the run-off election could look like, we combined all of the Republican votes into one entity. We did the same for Democrats. Our map shows how each precinct in District 6 voted, by party. It gives an indication of what Ossoff will be up against in the June runoff against Republican Karen Handel. [Read more]

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