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Ga. Tech Student Robbed

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(WSB Radio) -- Atlanta police are investigating the robbery of a Georgia Tech student in the Home Park neighborhood. ... The unidentified male victim was approached just before 10 p.m. Tuesday by three young black men with dreadlocks or braids near the intersection of 11th Street and Atlantic Drive ... The suspects, who did not appear to be armed, demanded and received all the student's belongings ... The victim, who was not hurt, told police he last saw the suspects walking south on

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Ga. Tech Students Carjacked

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Published April 23, 2010 at 3:32 a.m.

(WSB Radio) -- The carjacking and armed robbery of two Georgia Tech students prompts the school's police department to issue its third crime alert this week ... An armed black man approached a male student on Lynch Street and demanded the keys to his car early Friday, according to investigators. As the victim walked from the crime scene in the Home Park neighborhood, another armed black man confronted the student and his roommate and stole their wallets ... The stolen car is described as a gold

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Robberies near Ga. Tech

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Published Feb. 22, 2010 at 5:35 a.m.

(WSB Radio) -- Atlanta police are trying to determine if a pair of armed robberies Sunday night near the Georgia Tech campus are related. ... The first victim was robbed and pistol-whipped around 11pm on Ethel Street by a black man wearing a black nylon du rag. A suspect with a similar description and another black man are accused of holding up two other victims a few minutes later on Hirsch Street. ... Both robberies occurred in the Home Park neighborhood in Midtown Atlanta. ... The

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No Fear in Dog Attack Rescue

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Published Feb. 17, 2010 at 7:33 p.m.

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) A 26-year-old Cobb County man says he had ``no fear'' when he stopped a 100-pound dog from attacking a 7-year-old girl in a Marietta mobile home park Tuesday ... The child was later transported to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, where she was treated for a severe leg wound. Errol Jones later was identified as the good Samaritan who pulled the animal away from the child ... Cobb County Sgt. Dana Pierce says the unidentified girl was walking alone Tuesday shortly

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Bond Denied for Kidnapping Suspects

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Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 11:41 a.m.

(WSB Radio) Bond has been denied for two men accused in last week's kidnapping of an Cobb County boy ... Jair Garcia Cruz, 32, and Jonathan Martinez Tapia, 26, made their first appearance in court, charged with kidnapping, cruelty to children, aggravated assault and attempted extortion ... The two are accused in the abduction of 4 year old Christian Guevera. The boy was taken from his mobile home park off of Six Flags Road last Thursday ... Police say the two men forced their way inside the

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Child Found in Gwinnett

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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 4:57 p.m.

(WSB Radio) -- Christian Guevera, 4, kidnapped from his Austell home Thursday morning has been found, apparently safe and sound, in an apartment complex in Norcross ... Gwinnett County SWAT officers with assistance from the US Marshals service located Guevera at the Madison Ridge Apartments on Indian Trail Road in Norcross sometime after 4pm ... Cobb Police Sgt. Dana Pierce says the boy will be taken to the hospital to make sure he's okay before he's reunited with his family ... "Several people

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Child Abducted in Cobb

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Published Feb. 4, 2010 at 11:11 a.m.

(WSB Radio) A Levi's Call has been issued for a four year old boy, abducted this morning from an Austell mobile home park ... Cobb County police say Christian Guevera was taken from The Village mobile home park, at 750 Six Flags Road, at about 9:15 this morning ... The boy was last seen wearing pajamas with cars, like in the movie Cars. He's three feet tall, weighs about 30 pounds, with brown eyes and shaggy brown hair ... Police are hunting for two Hispanic men. They're described as

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Faulty Unit Blamed in Fatal Fire

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Published Jan. 5, 2010 at 4:10 p.m.

(WSB Radio) -- An old window heating and air conditioning unit is the cause of a fatal mobile home fire which took the lives of two children Tuesday ... "I feel certain the unity was beyond ten years old," said Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine. "The unit was definitely dangerous." ... Firefighters were called to the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park, off ofPatterson Road, near Griffin, concerning a fire at a single widetrailer ... Upon arrival, fire crews discovered the structure heavily

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2 Children Die in Fire

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Published Jan. 5, 2010 at 9:34 a.m.

(WSB Radio) Two children are dead and their mother is burned, following a fire at their Spalding County mobile home ... Firefighters were called to the Ponderosa Mobile Home Park, off of Patterson Road, near Griffin, concerning a fire at a single wide trailer ... Upon arrival, fire crews discovered the structure heavily involved, with thick smoke ... Two year old Claudia Johnson and her 4 year old sister, Aislyn, were found dead in the home. Their mother, 21 year old Ashley Johnson, was

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Georgia Budget Woes Voted State's Top Story

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Published Dec. 26, 2009 at 3:27 a.m.

ATLANTA (AP) Georgia grappled with the worst budget shortfall in its history as the economic crisis rippled through the nation, forcing legislators to make tough decisions that furloughed thousands of public school teachers and state employees and cut massive chunks out of the state's annual spending plan ... Georgia's budget crisis was the state's top news story of 2009, according to state editors and news directors voting in The Associated Press' annual survey ... Other stories high on most

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