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Fishermen Discover Body in River

Cobb police are asking for the public’s help to identify a body two fishermen discovered in the Chattahoochee River near an Akers Mill apartment complex Wednesday morning. 

Police describe the victim as a black male, about 5’10”, with numerous tattoos. Cobb police spokesman Dana Pierce said the body is too badly decomposed to offer any other details about the victim.

Boy, 7, Drowns in Apartment Pool

A Sunday afternoon outing at an apartment pool complex in south Forsyth County turned tragic when a 7-year-old boy drowned.

The incident happened about 3 p.m. at the Centennial Apartments in the Windermere subdivision off Highway 20, according to the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office.

Stephon Alston, of Cumming, had apparently been playing at the pool when his father left the area to go to the restroom to wipe off his face after he had been pushed into the pool. When he came back, he saw his son’s swim suit at the bottom of the pool and realized that his son was not resurfacing.

3 Plead Guilty to Theft of Federal Benefits

Three women have pleaded guilty to stealing more than $1 million in federal assistance funds.

They were apparently part of a group that used 13 storefront operations across Georgia to illegally exchange food stamps and other benefits for cash.

Latricia Allen of Savannah, Jewel Allen of Atlanta and Petrina Barge of Decatur entered guilty pleas in the case on Wednesday. The three join Sabrina Sesberry and her husband, Rupert Jones, of Atlanta, who previously pleaded guilty in the case.

Business Organizing Same-Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A

Wednesday’s Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, called on by former Arkansas governor and Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee, has drawn a huge response at many stores across metro Atlanta and beyond.

Now up next, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has organized the National Same-Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A restaurants to be staged across the country on Friday, Aug. 3.

A Midtown company, Carma Productions, and its Gayborhood App, have announced that such an event will take place at the  at 105 East Trinity Place in Decatur.

March Against Police Violence Ends in Arrests

Friday night's arrests in Midtown were apparently surrounding a Facebook event called the "March Against Police Violence" and not an Occupy Atlanta event as originally suggested by a spokesperson with the Atlanta Police Department.

The rally “against state repression” was reportedly in response to three males who were shot by police in and around Atlanta within a 36 hour period in June, as well as for the protests ongoing in Anaheim, Calif. concerning a pair of police killings last weekend. Read more...

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