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VILLA RICA, Ga. - Parents of a Villa Rica teenager are preparing to bury their son Friday afternoon, and they still don’t know how he died. They say not knowing what happened is the hardest part about his death. Jarred Wright, 19, was found dead in his bedroom. His family had been on a camping trip, but Jarred stayed behind because of work. Wright called his mother Saturday to complain of what he thought was a stomach bug. “I said, ‘I love you,’ and he said, ‘I love you too, mom,’” Julie Wright said. Jarred Wright was a 2017 graduate...

A Bexar County court-at-law judge elected during the “red tide” of 2010 is switching parties.Standing at the foot of the Bexar County Courthouse steps, County Court-at-Law No. 11 Judge Carlo Key said Monday that he is joining the Democratic Party and will seek re-election as a Democrat in November 2014.“Make no mistake, I did not leave the Republican Party, it left me,” said Key,flanked by high-ranking Democrats. “My principles have led me to the Democratic Party,and my only hope is that more people of principle will follow me.”While he's been considering the decision for several weeks,it was the recent federal...