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Woman Froze to Death as Helpless Husband Lay Nearby

She went out to help him after he fell from wheelchair

(Newser) - Authorities in central Georgia say a 74-year-old woman froze to death after she tried to help her wheelchair-bound husband outside their home. Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills tells local news outlets that Maria Riffe died Thursday while her immobile husband was about 20 yards from her, each unable to help...

Georgia Officials Stumped by Mutilated Cows

Also, new cases in Kansas and Missouri

(Newser) - The case of two cows found dead and mutilated has authorities in Jackson County, Ga., baffled. With both cows, there was no discernible cause of death and the animals had a complete circle cleanly cut around the rectal area, the Augusta Chronicle reports. Of the first cow, found Dec. 16,...

Jewelry Thief's Crime Spree Spans 5 States

Woman and male accomplice have stolen $450K in bling: cops

(Newser) - A woman believed to be in her 20s or 30s held employees of a Jared Vault jewelry store in Mebane, NC, at gunpoint on Monday before making off with jewelry piled into a shopping bag. But this wasn't her first rodeo: The FBI says the same brunette has robbed...

Woman, 11 Kids Held Hostage in Georgia Freed

DeKalb PD says woman placed a 911 call around 2am

(Newser) - A middle-of-the-night standoff at a hotel in DeKalb County, Ga., has ended with no harm to the woman and 11 children being held hostage within one of its rooms. The woman placed a 911 call around 2am following a domestic dispute, per a rep with the DeKalb PD; a SWAT...

911 Dispatcher Pretends to Be Victim's Boyfriend

He 'might have saved her life,' officer says

(Newser) - A Georgia woman was assaulted early Monday, and the alleged attacker told her to call her boyfriend to make him listen—but instead, the woman called 911. Deonte Smith, the dispatcher who answered, noticed that the woman was pretending to be talking to her boyfriend, so he played along. It...

World's 'Busiest Airport' Welcomes 100 Millionth Passenger

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport say it's the busiest

(Newser) - Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport said it hit a major milestone Sunday. The airport that calls itself the world's busiest announced on its social media sites says it served its 100 millionth passenger this year. That makes it the first single airport to serve that number of passengers in one...

Georgia Law Makes It Easier for Mentally Ill to Buy Guns

'The public has massively overestimated the dangerousness of the mentally disordered'

(Newser) - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has an eyebrow-raising report on a little-known Georgia law that allows guns to be placed in the hands of people involuntarily committed for mental health treatment. Federal law prohibits those people from buying guns, and Georgia added more than 2,000 such names to the National Instant...

Bank Robber Writes a Holly Jolly Demand Note

Give me money, and also, Merry Christmas

(Newser) - Georgia police say a bank robber gave a teller a note that both demanded cash and wished the teller a merry Christmas. Gwinnett County police said in a news release that they are looking for a man who entered a BB&T bank in Buford on Monday and handed a...

Cops: Teen Girl Goes on 3-State Crime Spree

Ivie Jade Adams, 17, is accused of multiple felonies

(Newser) - A Georgia teen and her boyfriend allegedly went on a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style crime spree (minus the shootouts) that included car theft and credit card fraud, WSB-TV reports. Police say Ivie Jade Adams, 17, took her mom's car in Milton, Ga., picked up her boyfriend, and went to a local bank—...

Cops Pull Over Drivers, Hand Out $100 Bills

Motorists in Monroe County, Ga., are moved to tears

(Newser) - Sheriff's deputies in a central Georgia county have been surprising motorists, some of whom expect a ticket. Instead, they've gotten $100 bills. The Macon Telegraph reports that Monroe County Sheriff John Cary Bittick gave officers 54 $100 bills to hand out randomly over three days during the past...

Jimmy Carter's Grandson Takes Nap, Never Wakes Up

Jeremy Carter, 28, dies in Peachtree City

(Newser) - First cancer , and now this. Jimmy Carter told the congregation at his church on Sunday that he was 25 minutes late because his grandson, 28-year-old Jeremy Carter, had died just hours before, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Carter said his grandson was feeling sick Saturday and took a nap at...

Blacksmith Takes On 9/11 Truthers in YouTube Video

'Your argument is invalid'

(Newser) - A Georgia metal worker has set out to disprove the belief that jet fuel doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel beams—like those in the World Trade Center towers—a major contention of conspiracy theorists who insist that 9/11 was an inside job. "I am so sick...

Teacher Asks if Muslim Student Has Bomb in Her Backpack

The girl's principal has apologized

(Newser) - The father of a Muslim middle-school student says a teacher asked his daughter if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack. The school's principal has apologized for the incident, according to a spokesperson. Abdirizak Aden said the teacher at Shiloh Middle School in Georgia stopped his 13-year-old daughter,...

2 Afghan Trainees AWOL From US Base

'Zero indication' that men are a threat, authorities say

(Newser) - Two Afghan airmen who didn't show up for training at a US Air Force base in Georgia on Monday are missing, and authorities suspect it's because they don't want to go home. An Air Force spokesman tells USA Today that law enforcement officials are searching for Mirwais...

Georgia Executes Check-Forging Killer

Nurse struggled to find a vein for lethal injection

(Newser) - A Georgia man convicted of forging checks belonging to his mother's friend and killing the man after he demanded money back has been executed. The execution of Brian Keith Terrell, 47, was carried out at 12:52am Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson, the Department of Corrections said...

Sheriff's New Welcome Sign Isn't Super Welcoming

Georgia county takes bold stand for political incorrectness

(Newser) - It might be the most unwelcoming welcome sign in America. A six-term Georgia sheriff spent more than $500 of his own money to install a welcome sign outside the Harris County sheriff's office telling anyone who doesn't like the way they do things there to get out, the...

Georgia Executes Man Who Requested Last Beer

Marcus Johnson didn't eat his last meal

(Newser) - A man convicted of raping and killing a woman he met in a south Georgia nightclub has been executed. Corrections officials say Marcus Ray Johnson was put to death by lethal injection at 10:11pm Thursday. He was convicted in April 1998 in the March 1994 rape and murder of...

'The Waster' Sending Scary Letters to Dozens of Churches

Police are investigating though no crime has been committed

(Newser) - As many as six dozen churches in two states are on high alert after receiving eerie letters signed by "the Waster." Over the last two weeks, churches of varying denominations in McMinn and Monroe counties in Tennessee, and Murray County in Georgia, have received a photocopied letter criticizing...

7 Most Affordable Cities to Buy a Home

Cleveland tops the list

(Newser) - Looking for an affordable place to live? Well, this probably won't come as a surprise to you, but don't move to California. Coldwell Banker put together its annual Home Listing Report , which looks at the average listing price of more than 81,000 Coldwell Banker listings of four-bed,...

Kids Lose Parents in Wreck, Cop Takes Unusual Step

Ga. Trooper Nathan Bradley didn't want to mar the memory of Halloween for them

(Newser) - Donald and Crystal Howard went out on Halloween to buy more face paint and candy. But the Georgia parents were killed in a car crash near their Morgan County home, leaving a young state trooper with a terrible task: breaking the news to their four kids, ages 6 to 13,...

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