ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A man accused of killing a Gwinnett County police officer and injuring another faced a judge Tuesday for an arraignment and motion hearing. Kevin Andrews Jr., 35, faces several charges, including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault against law enfo...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - One week after a city audit revealed more than $236 million in unpaid water bills, the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management (DWM) has failed to provide documentation backing up its claim the debt is actually $50 million lower. The audit, ...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Norcross man will spend the rest of his life in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. Jurors found Alejandro Rangel, 59, guilty of aggravated child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and five counts of child molestation for sexu...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A former Georgia Department of Corrections officer convicted of smuggling methamphetamine into a state prison is facing new drug and gun charges, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Mark Edward Jeffery, 41, was stationed at Hays State Prison...
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Actor Hayden Panettiere died from an accidental overdose of several drugs, including fentanyl, and had been in rehab just weeks before, according to a coroner’s report obtained by The Associated Press. Panettiere, 36, was found unresponsive in an apartment...
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A Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office corporal is on administrative leave and under internal investigation after the solicitor general’s office said he created a Facebook page that targeted a woman he arrested. Natasha Lopez told Channel 2’s Ashlyn Webb that harassing posts against ...
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JENNINGS, Mo. ( KMOV /Gray News) - A Missouri family is pleading for answers after a minor traffic crash over the weekend escalated into a violent attack. St. Louis County Police said they responded to the reported crash Saturday evening at an intersection in Jennings. Investigat...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A man fell to his death while running from police at a West Midtown apartment building Tuesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said. They said the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office was executing a search warrant at the Westbound at the ...
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New details have been released about the death investigation that prompted a large law enforcement response Tuesday morning at an apartment complex along Chattahoochee Avenue in northwest Atlanta. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, 32-year-old Genesis Denton of Chi...
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A 70-year-old woman died on Tuesday morning after being hit by a car on Shorter Avenue in Rome, and police are now asking for help finding her next of kin....
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Plenty of people toss technology away or trade it in when they upgrade, whether it’s a laptop, a phone or even a desktop computer. A new metro Atlanta organization is giving your retired technology new life and giving it away, for free, to non-profits in need. Channel 2’s Sophia ...
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(Gray News) — Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against major GLP-1 makers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk with patients accusing the popular weight-loss drugs of causing permanent eye damage and vision loss. According to USA Today , multiple lawsuits filed within the last year foc...
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Pirelli, a global leader in tire manufacturing, will create 1,000 new jobs as part of a sweeping, multi-year, $1.2 billion expansion of its existing facility in Rome. The Georgia governor’s office said the announcement represents one of the largest economic development investment...
