Local Briefs: Cops, courts and crime Police shoot man as he slits throat of girlfriend An Atlanta police officer shot a man just as he cut his ex-girlfriend's throat with a knife late Thursday. Everyone survived the confrontation, which took place on Arlington Circle near Bankhead Highway around 11 p.m. The womanÕs ex-boyfriend broke into her house and put a knife to her throat, police said. Her four children screamed for help and someone called police. When the first officer arrived, the children, ages 8 to 12, told the officer a man was trying to kill their mother, said Sgt....