Police are urging parents to talk with their children about a dangerous social media trend called the “Benadryl Challenge” after a St. Marys Middle School student was taken to a hospital. The student was hospitalized, the St. Marys Police Department announced, after reportedly taking too much Ben...
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BATON ROUGE, La. ( WAFB /Gray News) — A 21-year-old Louisiana State University student and her fiancé were killed when they were hit by a car. The Baton Rouge Police Department said Mia Camille Dawson, 20, was driving a 2016 Nissan Rogue around 2:40 a.m. Sunday when she veered of...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A fourth suspect has been charged in the deadly shooting of a Norfolk Southern contractor at the company’s railyard in Austell, police said Monday. Around 10 p.m. on Sept. 14, Curdravious Clark, 27, was shot to death at the facility on Dr. Luke...
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Georgia requires amusement rides to get an annual inspection by a licensed inspector, and state rules also require qualified amusement park workers to inspect and test rides each day they operate. The review comes one week after the fatal incident at Six Flags Over Georgia. The G...
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ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons signed veteran quarterback Andy Dalton and released backup Cooper Rush on Monday. Dalton is expected to join Tua Tagovailoa as the top backups to starter Michael Penix Jr. The signing was announced one day after the Falcons’ 31-23 loss to Chicag...
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ( WVLT /Gray News) — A 20-year-old man has been charged after he allegedly dressed up as a security guard to sneak into the University of Tennessee’s football game against Alabama on Saturday. According to court records, officers saw a man, later identified as Bl...
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Jennifer Rogers-Givens says it was very hard to break the news. Her two children are in the 5th and 6th grades. A week ago, their friend and teacher Hassan Kariem died in a roller coaster accident at Six Flags Over Georgia. “I did tell them the day I found out. My son was very so...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The November Georgia midterm election is right around the corner, and Georgians are already out in force casting their ballots early. Early voting kicked off across the Peach State on Oct. 13. More than 190,000 ballots were cast during the firs...
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Two of three teens charged with murder in a deadly Gwinnett County shooting are now in custody, including a 17-year-old who turned herself in after a SWAT team raided her Norcross-area apartment building, police say. Adrianna Rose Upcher, 17, turned herself in hours after SWAT of...
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ATLANTA — Fulton County is hosting a free resource fair later this month to help connect people with employment resources, healthcare, housing assistance and other services. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] The 2026 Pretrial Services Resource Fair will ...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — North Georgia residents who were amazed by last Tuesday’s spectacular “space jellyfish” may have another opportunity to catch a similar phenomenon early Tuesday morning. However, while the timing and weather conditions appear favorable, there’s...
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A Florida man arrested in connection with a pair of Tampa Bay-area bank robberies turned out to be a lot younger than he looked – at least, younger than he allegedly looked at the time of the heists....
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An elderly couple accused of gunning down their son-in-law at a crowded Dublin park allegedly carried out the killing during a supervised visit between the victim and his children, prosecutors revealed Monday....
