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A Marietta, Ga., woman was struck by at least three different cars as she tried to make her way across a road on Saturday night, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Rochelle Brown was on her way to the store, when a truck struck her shortly before 7 p.m. on North Marietta Parkway near Allgood Road. The […]

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A Clayton County, Ga., mother is upset after local police used Facebook to notify her of her son’s death, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Scroll down for news video Anna Lamb-Creasey says she received a strange Facebook message asking her to call the Clayton County Police Department. But the message went to a box called “other,” […]

Joe Rickey Hundley was arrested and charged with simple assault when he allegedly demanded that another passenger quiet her 19-month-old crying baby stating, “shut that n*gger baby up.” The man then reportedly followed up the shout with an open-handed slap across the child’s face, The Smoking Gun reports. The incident occurred on Feb. 8 aboard […]

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A Georgia mother suffered major burns to her body as she tried to save four of her five children who ultimately died in a fire, WSB-TV Channel 2 in Atlanta reports. Scroll down for news video Investigators are still trying to determine what started the blaze at the Conyers, Ga., home where Reba Glass and […]

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When a mother heard knocks at the door of her Loganville, Ga., home Friday afternoon, she initially thought it was a solicitor. Scroll down for news video Though the persistent knocks evoked suspicion from the 37-year-old mother of two and lead her to hide herself and her children in her home office on the third […]

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A 17-year-old Valdosta State University freshman was found dead on campus and her parents said they learned of her death via Facebook, CBS Atlanta reports. Scroll down for video of this story Jasmine Benjamin (pictured above) was found dead in her dorm’s common study area around noon on Nov. 18. Campus police believe foul play […]

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A 13-year-old girl has been charged with killing her 2-year-old sister in their Dekalb County home, Channel 2 Action News reports. Scroll down for video Tyasia Jackson was reportedly babysitting her younger, Sasha Lamaya Ray, and her other siblings when the toddler went missing at some point. Her body was found Monday afternoon outside their home […]

When two pitbulls rushed through the hole of a chain linked fence and attacked an 11-year-old boy and his 5-year-old sister in Dublin, Ga., big brother took charge. Scroll down for video According to 13 WMAZ-TV, Maleik Carr (pictured) and his sister Jalia walk through a backyard along the fence to get to the school […]

UPDATE: 4:40 P.M. EST Richard Ringold has just pleaded guilty to the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Antonia Butler, her 11-year-old daughter and two adults in 2009. Ringold enter guilty pleas to four counts of murder, aggravated assault and possession of firearm. He will spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility […]

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An Atlanta woman who violently beat her 11-year-old stepdaughter to death nine years ago is challenging her life sentence on the grounds that she was denied access to a lawyer when arrested. SEE ALSO: World’s Most Dangerous Beaches (PHOTOS) A Henry County judge found Charlott Lynette Reaves guilty of felony murder, aggravated battery and child […]

Branden Whitehead, a 20-year-old student at West Georgia Technical College, had to walk 15 miles each ways to attend class because he doesn’t have a car. SEE ALSO: Dwyane Wade On Parenting, Success But, when Whitehead was hurt in a collision by a hit-and-run driver during one of his long treks last month, his injuries […]

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Brandon Nicholas Lawson was arrested Thursday night on suspicion of armed robbery in the Atlanta area with his baby momma and infant child in tow, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The 21-year-old was cuffed for allegedly stealing a vehicle and using a fake name when police apprehended him but there was already a warrant out for the […]