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Walton County couple has been arrested and are facing child sex crime charges for acts deputies say they committed against their adopted children.Last month, the Walton County Sheriff’s Office raided a home in unincorporated Loganville where they believed a man was downloading child pornography. When interviewing him, the suspect admitted to collecting child porn and identified a second suspect in Oxford.The suspect told deputies that the other suspect was making the child porn with at least one child who lived in his home. The first suspect’s identity has not been released.After making sure the children were safe, investigators found evidence...

Our journalists are at the park. The gates are closed and law enforcement officers from the Georgia National Guard, Georgia State Patrol and city of Stone Mountain are gathered at the town entrance to the park. A few protesters hoping to challenge any of the armed militias are also gathering downtown.

Gwinnett County police are probably going to need more than cheese to lure this Speedy Gonzalez out of hiding. Generations of Looney Toons fans probably remember the swift-footed Mexican mouse character named Speedy Gonzales, but police announced on Tuesday that they have charged a 35-year-old Buford man — who officers say is also named Speedy Gonzalez — with forgery, identity theft and theft by deception. The charges are related to checks that were stolen from a Suwanee home and later used at a Home Depot in the Snellville area.

A Gwinnett County business owner and former NFL player is facing criminal charges after destroying his business and writing racial slurs on the walls in an attempt to make it look like a burglary, police say. Authorities said officers were called to the Create and Bake Restaurant and Coughman’s Creamery on Duluth Highway on Wednesday to a report of burglary in progress. Officers later went into the business and found graffiti including “racially-motivated" words, swastikas and “MAGA” spray-painted on the walls, among other damage.

A Norcross man ordered the brutal assault and rape of a woman while he was in prison, a member of the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office said Friday. Jose Carranza-Castro, 38, pleaded guilty Oct. 15 to planning the May 2017 attack on the woman. The victim was scalded with boiling water, shocked with a stun gun and raped by two male teens in front of one of her sons.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown today announced that current WBC welterweight champion Robert Guerrero has been arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport and charged with illegally traveling with an unloaded pistol and three unloaded high capacity bullet magazines. The weapon and 15-bullet clips were discovered during a routine pre-flight check-in this morning. District Attorney Brown said, “I hope that Mr. Guerrero fights better than he thinks. For anyone who hasn’t gotten the message, let me be crystal clear. You cannot bring an unlicensed weapon – loaded or unloaded – into this county or this city. And if you...

A Metro Police radio recording reveals new details about what happened in the minutes leading up to an officer-involved shooting at a Summerlin Costco last month that left a Las Vegas man dead. The recording originally was posted on radioreference.com, which broadcasts live public safety audio feeds and archives law enforcement radio recordings. Portions of the audio also have been posted to YouTube.

It's going to take longer to find out exactly what happened during that fatal police shooting at the Summerlin Costco earlier this month.The inquest was scheduled for September third. But now the Clark County District Attorney's office has requested that the coroner's inquest be postponed indefinitely.the inquest would have determined if three officers were justified in the use of deadly force against Erik Scott on July 10th.Clark County District Attorney David Roger says his office asked for the delay partly because they have not yet received witness statements and reports from metro police.Roger also says there may be hundreds of...

Health care law gains support? Well, of course | Cynthia Tucker Here's news that's really no surprise: a new poll has found that support for the health care reform law has been gradually rising. The GOP hysteria provedas voters now know." Opposition to the landmark health care overhaul declined over the past month, to 35 percent from 41 percent, according to the latest results of a tracking poll, reported Thursday.Fifty percent of the public held a favorable view of the law, up slightly from 48 percent a month ago, while 14 percent expressed no opinion about the measure, according to...

LV officer at Costco recorded in 911 call Official says police shout at victim: 'Get on the ground' A 911 call made by a Summerlin Costco employee captures police shouting orders to 39-year-old Erik Scott before the U.S. Military Academy graduate was shot and killed, according to Las Vegas police.Capt. Patrick Neville said an employee was talking to dispatchers and was close enough to the scene on Saturday that a recording of the conversation caught an officer clearly yelling, "Get on the ground." Police have refused to release the recording. Investigators hope to review store surveillance video, but Neville said...

Suspect in mosque arson could be in country illegally The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A Muslim man charged with setting fire to a Marietta mosque may be in the country illegally, law enforcement officials confirmed Thursday. Arson investigators work to find out if a fire was deliberately set at the Masjid Al-hedaya on Powder Springs Street in Marietta Tuesday, July 6, 2010. The fire was reported shortly after 11 p.m. Monday. The building is also known as the Islamic Center of Marietta. Enlarge photo Mosque leaders said Tamsir Mendy, who describes himself as a “devout Muslim,” had attended their prayer services for...

JG: One of their primary arguments is that 287 (g) promotes racial-profiling ... BC: That’s just a distraction. JG: I’ve heard you call it “absolute bull.” BC: If you look at Saul Alinsky’s teachings, that’s what they follow. The ACORN-type philosophy of finding an issue to detract from what you’re after and put the attention somewhere else. And also to make your opponents look racist, that’s part of it. JG: One common argument is that 287 (g) unjustly rips apart families. How do you respond to that? BC: That’s not anything within my purview. I’m just enforcing the law. ,p>

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama took a break from United Nations climate change discussions Tuesday night to call Gov. Sonny Perdue about the Georgia's worst weather-related disaster in recent years.

Since losing her 4th House District seat to DeKalb County’s Hank Johnson in 2006 and moving to California, the 54-year-old McKinney has run for president as the Green Party’s nominee. Last fall, she set her sights on the international stage. She’s taken two tumultuous trips to Gaza, which she said were humanitarian missions. On the last such mission in July, she and a group of other activists were arrested by the Israeli navy for trying to sail through a blockade. They were held in an Israeli jail for nearly a week.

Cynthia McKinney sailing to Gaza with relief supplies Free Gaza activists say they will defy Israeli blockade By The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Monday, December 29, 2008 Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is a high-profile member of a boatload of activists that set sail Monday from Cyprus to deliver medicine to war-torn Gaza. McKinney, who ran as the Green Party candidate for president, sees the voyage as a humanitarian mission, said her father, former Georgia state Rep. Billy McKinney.

State Rep. Ron Sailor on Tuesday pleaded guilty to laundering what he believed to be $375,000 in drug money for an undercover agent posing as a drug dealer.Sailor, 33, a Democrat who represents parts of DeKalb and Rockdale counties, agreed to resign his position in the legislature, U.S. District Court Judge Jack Camp noted during a brief plea hearing. File photo / AJC State Rep. Ron Sailor  RELATED LINK: • More state and local news Sailor was arrested by federal agents on Dec. 19, after taking $300,000 in cash from the undercover agent at a metro Atlanta hotel.Sailor quickly admitted...

Angry Carter Battles Guards In Darfur POSTED: 6:02 am EDT October 3, 2007 KABKABIYA, Sudan -- Former President Jimmy Carter got in a shouting match Wednesday with Sudanese security officials who blocked him from a town in Darfur where he was trying to meet representatives of ethnic African refugees from the ongoing conflict. The 83-year-old Georgia native walked into this highly volatile pro-Sudanese government town to meet refugees too frightened to attend a scheduled meeting at a nearby compound. Carter was able to make it to a school where he met with one tribal representative and was preparing to go...

Immigration detainees feel isolated Lumpkin: Last stop before uncertain future By ANNA VARELA The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 07/15/07 Lumpkin — Eynar Paredes-Corea has spent more than two months in detention in southwest Georgia, nearly 400 miles from his family in Charlotte, passing the long hours waiting to learn if he'll be deported to his homeland. The 44-year-old Nicaraguan worries about his wife, a legal resident from El Salvador, and their three teenage children, who are U.S. citizens. He says his wife has had panic attacks since he was taken into federal custody. The carpenter is also distressed to hear...

McKinney rips Democrats for not stopping Iraq war 07/01/2007 The Associated Press SAVANNAH — Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney ripped her fellow Democrats in a fiery speech Saturday that accused them of failing to stop the Iraq war, ignoring the victims of Hurricane Katrina and failing to impeach President Bush. McKinney, who lost her House seat last year after becoming the first black woman elected to Congress from Georgia 14 years earlier, took aim at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic presidential candidates and even the Congressional Black Caucus in an address to 350 people at a Georgia NAACP fundraising...

Skakel Witnesses: RFK Jr., Trial Lawyer By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN Associated Press Writer NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Michael Skakel plans to call his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and a celebrity attorney as witnesses as he appeals his murder conviction next week, according to a list filed Tuesday.Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Kennedy, is seeking a new trial based on a claim by Gitano "Tony" Bryant, who implicated his friends in the killing of 15-year-old Martha Moxley. Skakel, 47, was convicted in 2002 of bludgeoning Moxley to death with a golf club in 1975 in Greenwich and is serving 20...