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  • Ga. Mom Accused of Pepper-Spraying Students Who Attacked Her Son

    An Atlanta parent is accused of pepper-spraying a crowd of high school students after they reportedly jumped her son as she dropped him off at school, WSB-TV reports. Shawanda Favors was apprehended by the Atlanta Public Schools Police Department and charged with inappropriate conduct after authorities say she pepper-sprayed the students during the fight, which broke…

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  • Ga. Man Who Threw Boiling Water on Gay Couple Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison 

    A Georgia judge sentenced a man to 40 years in prison Wednesday after he threw scalding water on a gay couple sleeping in an apartment, leaving them with severe burns, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the report, jurors only deliberated for about 90 minutes before finding 48-year-old Martin Blackwell guilty of eight counts of…

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  • Ga. Teenagers Hired on the Spot After Asking for Jobs to Avoid Gangs

    A group of Georgia teens landed themselves summer jobs with the LaGrange (Ga.) Housing Authority after explaining to its head, Zsa Zsa Heard, that they were trying to stay out of trouble, KHOU11 reports. According to Heard in a Facebook post Wednesday, she was approached by the four teens while working in her office. When…

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  • Ga. Family Demands Answers About Teen Shot Dead at House Party

    It has been almost a week since a Gwinnett County, Ga., teen was shot dead at a house party, and his family remains frustrated at the lack of progress in the case, WSB-TV reports. “I find that hard to believe that within a week, there has been nothing uncovered,” Saviour Branch, the father of the…

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  • Atlanta Store Clerk Charged After Pointing Gun at 11-Year-Old Boy 

    An Atlanta store clerk is facing charges of aggravated assault after locking an 11-year-old boy inside the store and holding the child at gunpoint, WSB-TV reports. The convenience store clerk, identified as Abhishek Dubey, accused 11-year-old Dylan Curate of stealing when he detained the child and pointed a gun at him in the early-morning hours…

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  • Outpouring of Kindness for Homeless Teen Who Biked 6 Hours to Get to College and Slept in Tent

    Fred Barley is nothing if not persistent. Officers found the 19-year-old sleeping in a tent outside Georgia’s Gordon State College over the weekend and listened to his amazing story about why he was doing something that could have been considered trespassing, WSB-TV reports. Barley is homeless. He told officers that he had ridden his little…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Atlanta Teen's 'White-Boy Privilege' Poem Goes Viral 

    This 14-year-old Atlanta boy probably deserves a spot on the “Woke White People” list. Royce Mann, an eighth-grader at the Paideia School in Atlanta, has stirred up a lot of discussion after video of him performing a poem titled “White-Boy Privilege” at a slam-poetry competition at his school in May went viral. “Dear women, I’m…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Ga. TV News Producer Fired After Rant About 'Unevolved, Uncivilized Turds' of Black Lives Matter

    A local Georgia TV news-station photographer and producer has landed himself in a heap of trouble, ultimately losing his job, after posting three Facebook rants insulting Black Lives Matter and even wishing death upon members of the movement at least twice, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. CBS46’s Charles Beau Menefee, an Emmy-winning photographer-producer, slammed members of…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Ga. Park Hanging Referred to FBI 

    Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed issued a statement Thursday afternoon announcing that the case regarding a black man found hanging from a tree in the city’s Piedmont Park has been referred to the FBI, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. According to the site, the announcement came hours after social media users expressed suspicions and outrage, with some…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Ga. 6-Year-Old Finds Stolen Olympic Gold Medal

    A Georgia father and his 6-year-old daughter were out for a walk when they stumbled upon an Olympic gold medal. According to ABC News, former slalom canoeist Joe Jacobi won the medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The medal was stolen from Jacobi’s car last month. Chloe Smith, 6, spotted the shiny object…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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