TUCKER — The Gwinnett County Police Department responded to a fatal domestic incident in Tucker August 17. Officers arrived at a house on Preston Lake Drive just after 1 a.m. to find a male dead from a stab wound. According to police, officers spoke with the wife, who admitted to stabbing the husband during a […]
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77-year-old Georgia man fatally shoots 53-year-old woman
A 53-year-old woman is dead after being shot outside a Bibb County home by a 77-year-old man. Bibb County Sheriff’s Investigators responded to a home on East Pine Hill Drive in reference to a fatal shooting. The incident occurred at about 10:19 p.m. Sunday. According to the Sheriff’s Department, 77-year-old Howard Walker heard someone attempting […]
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Georgia’s richest small town revealed
Avondale Estates was ranked the richest town in Georgia in a 24/7 Wall St. analysis examining small, affluent communities where most households earn at least three times the state’s median annual household income. With a population of 3,135, Avondale Estates recorded a median home value of $349,500, based on household financial data that was collected before the […]
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Coronavirus Updates: 15-year-old dies from COVID-19, more school closings
The Georgia Department of Public Health reported the death of a 15-year-old Gwinnett County boy from coronavirus Saturday. The teen becomes the fourth person under age 20 to die from the virus in Georgia and the second youngest person to die statewide. The youngest person to die from coronavirus was a 7-year-old boy from Chatham […]
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Bomb threat at Amazon Warehouse in Bibb County investigated
It was a harrowing few hours Saturday afternoon for workers at the Amazon Warehouse on Skipper Road when a bomb threat forced the business to evacuate. Bibb County Sheriff’s Patrol Deputies responded to the Amazon Warehouse after a bomb threat was called into the facility at about 12:33 p.m. The caller said there was a […]
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Kemp’s New Order: Mask mandates are OK, but only on public property
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp extended his executive order on COVID-19 Saturday and made some concessions to cities and county’s that want to issue mask mandates. Under the new order, local mask mandates are allowed, but only on public property. The order would eliminate the restriction on local mask mandates while allowing businesses to choose whether […]
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VIDEO: Georgia middle school welcomes students back with ‘Ice Ice Baby’ parody
A Forsyth County middle school filmed a parody of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” to welcome students back to school and encourage mask use and social distancing. Lakeside Middle School’s version of the song, called “Mask Mask Baby,” offers tips about hand washing and social distancing and tells students and parents what steps the school […]
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Cars at a Gwinnett County repair shop burned, arson is suspected
NORCROSS — Three cars were burned at a Gwinnett County auto shop and firefighters suspect arson. The fire occurred early Friday morning. Firefighters were called to the scene around 12:35 a.m. Friday, August 14. A passerby saw smoke and flames coming from the vehicles in the parking lot at the C & D Auto Performance. […]
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Georgia defends COVID-19 response despite poor Trump task force review
Public Health officials released information Friday about what the state agency called positive indicators on COVID-19 in Georgia. They include lower numbers of cases over the past week and decreasing COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide. And the percentage of tests coming back positive has dipped below 10 percent, the Department of Public Health announced. The news release […]
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Georgia lawmaker under fire for scathing remarks about John Lewis
A Northeast Georgia state lawmaker was stripped of his Georgia House committee chairmanship Friday for belittling the late Congressman John Lewis’ legacy in a radio interview. It’s the second time Rep. Tommy Benton, R-Jefferson, has lost a leadership position in the General Assembly since June 2017, when he distributed an article promoting the idea that […]