(Friday, 9 January 2009)  Roswell Police search for the violent home invaders they say targeted a businessman; there's more legal wrangling in the King siblings' dispute; a Cobb high school teacher is accused of texting a student pictures of his you-know-what.  Plus, the new Spider-Man issue will feature Barack Obama.  Get a sneak peek of the comic on today's KISS News Now!

• A businessman and his family are terrorized in their Roswell home by crooks who followed him home from his job in Sandy Springs, and ambushed him in his garage.  The two suspects, described as a black male and a white male, were wearing "expensive ski masks" when they tied up the other three family members too, and got away with some money.
  
   
• A new chapter in the court case that is King vs. King...as the surviving children of Dr. Martin Jr. and Coretta Scott wrangle over their mom's personal effects.  A court-ordereed 5:00 Thursday deadline came and went without the transfer of some eighty boxes of personal papers from Bernice and Martin III to brother Dexter, who's cut a deal to do a biography of Coretta Scott King over the objections of his siblings.  Attorneys say Bernice and Martin will try to identify the exact documents Dexter has requested.
  
  

• Marvel Comics found out Barack Obama has been a Spider-Man fan since he was a kid--so the comic line is hooking up the president-elect with a storyline featuring himself.  An issue on sale next Wednesday has a five-page bonus story which finds Peter Parker taking pictures at the inauguration when he spots two identical Obamas--and he uses basketball to figure out who's the real one.  When all is said and done, Spidey and Barack give each other a pound. (Click on the panels to see them up close!)
  
  
• A Harrison High School English teacher resigns after his arrest on porn charges involving a student.  36-year-old Christopher Nicklis allegedly texted pictures of his genitalia to a 15-year-old.  Her mom found the cell phone and when she saw what was inside, called the school.
  
  
• A $5,000 reward now for information leading to the killers of 27-year-old John Henderson, a popular bartender killed at the Standard in Grant Park during an armed robbery.  The Standard has now reopened.
  
  
• State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond keynotes tomorrow's  Georgia Black Chamber of Commerce 11th Annual Legislative Prayer Breakfast.  Congressman Hank Johnson will also present a Capitol Hill report during the breakfast at the Holiday Inn Decatur.
  
  
• Add this to the smart crook of the week file:  an would-be robber in Iowa tried to stick up a cell phone store--but when he tried to pepper-spray the clerk, he ended up spraying himself in the face.  He finally figured out the business end of the device and sprayed the clerk anyway, then made a run for it.
  
  
• Gospel singers yearning for a recording contract will have a chance to earn one.  BET's television show "Sunday Best'' will kick off its four-city tour in Atlanta, searching for the next person who is looking to claim the title as America's next great gospel singer.  Open auditions will begin Saturday at the Georgia World Congress Center.
  
  
• The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  a sunny high of 56 today, and a low of 38.  Saturday, cloudy sky and a high of 62 with an 80% chance of showers in the afternoon and evening.  Sunday, a breezy, chilly high of 49.