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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,...

Mom Finds Poignant Note From Her Dead 6-Year-Old
Mom Finds Poignant Note From Her Dead 6-Year-Old
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Mom Finds Poignant Note From Her Dead 6-Year-Old

'We have no idea when he wrote it,' his mom says

(Newser) - Like many 6-year-olds, Leland Shoemake loved getting dirty. He also loved history, Steven Spielberg, and Adam Sandler. But "the one thing he loved most was playing in the dirt," his mother, Amber Shoemake, writes on Facebook . "I never imagined that would be the thing that would take...

Unmoved by Pope, Georgia Executes 1st Woman in 70 Years

Appeals from Francis, inmate's kids fail to sway parole board

(Newser) - The only woman on Georgia's death row was executed early Wednesday, making her the first woman put to death by the state in seven decades. Kelly Renee Gissendaner was pronounced dead by injection of pentobarbital at 12:21am at the state prison in Jackson. She was convicted of murder...

Woman on Death Row Gets Last-Minute Hearing

Georgia will decide her fate 8 hours before execution time

(Newser) - The only woman on Georgia's death row will wake up Tuesday morning with no idea whether she will be alive at the end of the day. Kelly Renee Gissendaner, whose execution was delayed earlier this year first by snow and then by a "cloudy" drug , is scheduled to...

2 Trucks Plummet Off Georgia Bridge Onto Highway

A Publix truck and a tanker with 8K gallons of fuel ended up on road below

(Newser) - Lunch hour got messy in Georgia today when two tractor-trailers drove right off an I-285 bridge and onto busy state highway 400, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Three people were sent to area hospitals, and the Sandy Springs Police Department warned that lane closures—which include all northbound lanes of 400...

Parents Forgive Sons Who Allegedly Tried to Kill Them

'We love them unconditionally'

(Newser) - A Georgia couple say they've forgiven two sons accused of attacking them in an alleged murder plot. Yvonne and Zachery Ervin spoke publicly yesterday for the first time outside Gwinnett County Court. "Those were not our boys that did that to us," said Yvonne Ervin, who still...

Georgia Church Expels 103-Year-Old Woman

Because she disagreed with the pastor

(Newser) - A small church in northeast Georgia is defending its decision to revoke the membership of a 103-year-old woman who disagreed with the pastor. The Athens Banner-Herald reported today that Union Grove Baptist Church of Elberton said Genora H. Biggs was displaying conduct detrimental to the congregation. The woman has been...

Ex-Coroner Stole From Dead People: Authorities

He was sentenced today to 3 years in prison

(Newser) - One apparent "perk" of being a coroner: If someone dies without any apparent family members, you can steal from them. But Grover Tuten got caught doing just that, causing him to resign as Georgia's Richmond County coroner and be sentenced today to three years in prison. Tuten, who...

Warrant: Son Started to Plan Attack on Parents at Age 11

Ga. siblings accused of vicious attack said to be 'very nice kids'

(Newser) - "I'm sure they didn't just wake up and decide to kill their parents yesterday." That was a Gwinnett County police officer's speculation after two Georgia brothers allegedly drugged and attacked their parents earlier this month. It appears that conjecture may have been spot-on: A search...

Cops: Grandparents Forgot Baby in Hot Car

Ga. boy was left in SUV for hours after church

(Newser) - A baby in northwest Georgia is dead because the three adults who were supposed to be looking after him all thought somebody else had taken him inside, police say. Instead, 11-month-old Jaxon Taylor died inside a hot SUV after being left there for more than two hours on Saturday afternoon...

Black Couple Sues: Neighbor Made Ape Sounds at Us

They cite civil rights-era legislation to do so

(Newser) - Citing a sliver of civil rights-era legislation more commonly used as protection against discriminatory landlords, a black couple is suing their former neighbor and a north Georgia city they say failed to stop him from harassing them. Gregory and Sophia Bonds say the slurs and threats began the day they...

Student Shot to Death at College in Georgia

Man is killed at Savannah State

(Newser) - Another campus shooting is making headlines this morning, this one out of Savannah State University in Georgia. Police say a junior at the school identified as Christopher Starks died after being shot at the student union last night, reports WSB-TV . Nobody else was injured, and it's not clear what...

Cops: Husband Kills 3, Calls His Mother, Kills Self

Husband shoots wife, her two boys, and her father

(Newser) - Four people, including two children, are dead outside Atlanta in an apparent murder-suicide. Police in Forsyth County say Matthew Fields, 32, fatally shot his wife and her two sons before killing himself, reports MyFox Atlanta . The victims are Rebecca Manning, 37, and Jared and Jacob Smith, ages 8 and 9....

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