Georgia
Del. police: Ga. man tried to flush 3 kg of PCP
Dover police say a Georgia man tried to flush nearly three kilograms of PCP when he was found at a vacant property. Police announced Tuesday that officers called to a home on Heritage Drive on Sunday found 32-year-old Eljer Ingram of Augusta, Ga., and four other people. Capt. Tim Stump ...
Girl, 8, wounded by stray bullet as she slept
Authorities say an 8-year-old girl was hospitalized after she was shot by a stray bullet as she slept in her Atlanta home. The shooting happened around 10:30 p.m. Monday at the Hollywood Shawnee Apartments on the city's northwest side. Police say the child was asleep in her bed when a ...
Screenwriter hosts movie screening in west Georgia
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher is set to host a free screening of his new film "Violet and Daisy" in western Georgia. School spokeswoman Elizabeth Stone says the event is being hosted Friday at the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center — about 50 miles west of downtown Atlanta. The film is ...
3 charged in LA-area bank robbery
A man was charged Monday with a $565,000 bank robbery in which his girlfriend — an assistant bank manager — was forced to strap on a fake bomb so she would seem to be a hostage and could take the money. The woman said she was abducted in September from ...
Ga. looking to lower cyclist fatalities
Officials from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety are looking to lower the number of cyclist fatalities in 2013. Department spokeswoman Ashley Fielding says 18 cyclists were killed in the state in 2012, representing a 28 percent increase in the number of cyclist fatalities since 2011. Officials say nearly three ...
Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat
Shipwrecks lying deep off America's coasts are more often historical artifacts than present-day threats from leaking old oil tanks, a new federal report says. While 87 of the ships — most sunk during World War II by German submarines — have the potential to leak tens of millions of gallons ...
10 make finals of National Geographic Bee
Ten young scholars have made it to the finals of the National Geographic Bee, where they'll compete for a $25,000 college scholarship. The preliminary rounds of the national competition were held Monday, narrowing the field of 54 state-level winners to the final 10. The field for Wednesday's finals includes one ...
New director appointed at Atlanta VA center
The Department of Veterans Affairs has appointed Leslie B. Wiggins as the new director of the Atlanta VA Medical Center. In a release department spokesman Greg Kendall said Wiggins will oversee delivery of health care services to more than 89,000 veterans and a staff of more than 2,900 workers. Officials ...
Trial to begin for man accused of shooting wife
A man accused of shooting his wife eight times outsider the couple's Sandy Springs apartment is set to go on trial this week. Jury selection started Monday in the case of 43-year-old Michael Parson. He is accused of shooting his wife, 41-year-old Adina Parson, in April 2012. She was hit ...
Atheists to put books next to Bibles in Ga. parks
A national atheist group said Monday that it will donate its literature for use in cabins and lodges in Georgia's state parks after the governor's recent decision to allow Bibles there. David Silverman, president of the Cranford, N.J.-based American Atheists organization, said his group is just waiting for an answer ...
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