News Nearby: Cobb Man Again Faces Deportation

Man Accidentally Deported, Then Sent Back

Juan Carlos Guevara, a 2010 Pebblebrook High graduate, was accidentally deported in March and then brought back to the U.S.

Now he faces deportation again on Aug. 13. 

Supporters have created an online petition in hopes of keeping Guevara in the U.S.

Starved Teen Died Months After Child Caseworkers Closed Case

In August 2010, Cobb police issued an alert for a missing mentally disabled teenager.

The 14-year-old, Markea Berry, was found hours later at the Walmart on East-West Connector, less than a mile from her Concord Road home in Mableton.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Markea wrote in her journal that she’d rather live at the store than at home. She told police she ran away because she didn’t want to burden her now 38-year-old mother, Ebony Berry.

At 14, Markea was so small that she looked 9. Two years later, Markea was found dead, weighing only 43 pounds, in the home police took her back to that night in 2010.

Ex-Wheeler Star Wins Olympic Gold

For the second Summer Olympics in a row, a former track star from Wheeler High School has won a gold medal.

Aries Merritt, who graduated from Wheeler in 2003 and whose family resides in Mableton, raced to the gold in men's 110-meter hurdles race Wednesday in London, turning in a time 12.92 seconds.

Back-to-School is High Season for Child Identity Theft

For parents, back-to-school season equals lots of paperwork — not only for school enrollment, but also for youth sports, clubs and even a teen’s first after-school job.

Unfortunately, the piles of paper often leave a child vulnerable to identity theft, an increasingly serious problem in the U.S.

Act Limits Military Funeral Protests 

In a move sure to inflame First Amendment tensions, President Barack Obama has signed into law an act that will limit the activities of persons wishing to protest military funerals.

The "Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012" requires groups that are protesting military funerals to restrict their activities to two hours before and two hours after the funeral itself.

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