(Thursday, 5 February 2009)  She claimed her house was torched because she supported President Obama; a man who beat now-Congressman John Lewis apologizes; Bonds steroids evidence may be heard in court.  Get details of today's KISS News Now! 

• Forsyth County fire investigators have arrested a woman who claimed someone torched her house because she supported President Barack Obama.  Pamela Graf, 47, faces unrelated drug charges, and her boyfriend, 46-year-old Steve Strobel, is also under arrest for obstruction of justice and false statements. 
  
  Graf told police that someone sprayed racial slurs on the fence at her Lanier Drive home, and burned down the house last month after she put an Obama campaign sign in the yard.  But now she and Strobel are both considered suspects in the blaze.  Investigators will not yet discuss a possible motive, or reveal how the fire started.
  
  
  
• An east Cobb woman fights off a would-be kidnapper who jumped her in her own driveway and tried to drag her into a waiting car.  The suspects and motive are unknown.  Police are stepping up patrols in the River Hill subdivision near Johnson Ferry Road.
  
  
• A federal court orders ex-Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill to cough up $25,000 he has stashed in a day trading account because he didn't report it when he filed for bankruptcy protection last year.  His lawyer says this will leave Hill with nothing to live on and no way to pay his mortgage.
  
  
• The Senate gets back to work today on an economic stimulus package. Despite Republicans' claims they wanted to trim the bill, the price tag is now past $900 billion after the unanimously-approved addition of a homebuyer's credit proposed by Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson.  It's aimed at helping the crippled housing market and would cost about $19 billion itself.
  
  
   
• Forty-eight years after he helped a white gang beat and bloody the then-21-year-old civil rights activist John Lewis, a South Carolina segregationist has apologized to the man he bullied.  72-year-old Elwin Wilson traveled to Atlanta Congressman Lewis' Capitol Hill office, where he said he was sorry.  Wilson said he'd never been able to block the violent day out of his mind, and after reading civil rights leaders' reactions to President Obama's election, got the courage to voice his regret.  Lewis forgave Wilson immediately, and says he was very moved.  Here's a recent six-minute video for Montreat College which focuses on Lewis' life during the civil rights movement.
  
  
  
  
  
• The GBI decides to let the Feds handle any investigation and possible prosecution behind the salmonella outbreak traced to a south Georgia plant.
  
   
• The FBI is taking a new look at an old unsolved mystery--the 1982 fatal Tylenol tamperings.  Seven people were killed.  They say with new technology and tips, they are hopeful they can crack the case.  Agents just searched the Boston-area home of the man who got 12 years in prison for trying to extort a million dollars from the pill makers.
  
  
• Attorneys for Barry Bonds are expected to ask a judge today to exclude much of the government's evidence against him. That evidence includes a recording of a conversation in which Bond's former trainer allegedly discusses steroid injections.  Court papers say Bonds has tested positive for three different types of steroids.
  
  
• A Cook County coroner rules the death of a 10-year-old Illinois boy found hanging from a coat hook in a school bathroom, suicide.  Aquan Lewis was found by a janitor Tuesday morning and died at the hospital the next day. The boy's mother says her son was in good spirits when he left home, and she doesn't believe he killed himself.
  
  
• The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  clear, high of 42 Thursday.  Friday, sunshine, high of 58.  Saturday, sunshine and a high of 63.