(Friday, 17 July 2009)  Two Lawrenceville 14-year-olds now face murder charges; we've got a preview of some unreleased Michael Jackson music; a babysitter is accused of giving wine to an infant.  It's all on today's KISS News Now! 

• A math teacher is in trouble with the law for not knowing the numbers of the age of consent in Georgia.  Jonesboro Police jailed Charles Thomas McClendon after an officer rolled up on him with a 15-year-old girl, parked behind a Mexican restaurant in Jonesboro, around 2:30 Thursday morning--partially clothed and about to put on some protection so they could have sex.  The 29-year-old McClendon was the girl's math tutor last year at Stone Mountain Middle School. 
  
  
• Two Lawrenceville middle schoolers are charged with murdering a 21-year-old who was shot last month.  Gwinnett Police say it wasn't drug or gang related, but that it was some kind of a personal beef.  Brandon Ennis and Michael White are also accused of aggravated assault in the shooting, which wounded a 17-year-old, and cops are seeking a third suspect from California.
  
   
• A Georgia woman now living in Florida is arrested in connection with the murder of a Pensacola couple who adopted 17 special-needs children.  Pamela Wiggins is the landlady and a family friend of the man who organized the deadly robbing crew.  She's charged as an accessory after the fact.
  
  

• We've heard a snippet of an unreleased Michael Jackson song, and if it sounds a bit like classic rock, that's because it kind of is.  TMZ reports that the King of Pop contacted the band America years ago and got recording rights permission from them; the site could not find out when the song inspired by "Horse With No Name" was recorded, though.  Click here to hear Michael's groove, "Place With No Name."
  
  Michael Jackson had a mountain of unreleased recordings in the vault when he died. The material includes unused tracks from studio sessions of some of Jackson's best albums, as well as more recently recorded songs made with producer Akon and Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am. Two weeks before he died, he wrapped up work on an elaborate production dubbed the "Dome Project," which could be the final finished video piece overseen by Jackson. The Jackson family has not publicly discussed plans for Jackson's catalog.
  
  Michael Jackson, Genius. Remember the "Smooth Criminal" video? The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office has opened a special exhibit highlighting Michael Jackson's patent and trademark applications. Among the inventions--gravity-defying shoes.
  
  

  Michael is the co-inventor of a "system for allowing a shoe wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface." Included in the patent application is an original sample of Michael Joseph Jackson's signature and drawings of his invention. The exhibit is free and open to the public and runs through Labor Day. The museum exhibit is in Alexandria, Virginia in the atrium of the Madison Building.

  
  
  

  
  

• A new CDC study says obesity is linked to race, and it's more blacks tipping the scales. Over 36% of black Americans are considered obese, as opposed to 28% of Hispanics and 23% of whites.  Lack of access to affordable health care is key.
  
  
• With word of public safety cuts looming in the police and fire departments, Gwinnett County residents appeal to the county commission to delay planned budget cuts and seek alternatives to the vote next week.  But the commission said since residents loudly protested property tax cuts, service cuts would be the only choice.
  
  
• Former governor and senator Zell Miller makes an appearance before a group of conservative legislators here in Atlanta, and takes pot shots at President Barack Obama.  Miller called the president's plan to close Guantanamo Bay "nuts," and said of the commander-in-chief's overseas traveling, "I think Rahm Emanuel ought to get some Gorilla Glue and put it in that chair behind the Oval Office and say, 'Sit down here, Mr. President.'"  Asked later about the comment, Dr. Joseph Lowery noted that Gorilla Glue is a brand name and added, "I ignore it.  Iconsider the source and go about my business."
  
  
• A federal judge in Macon has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Army reservist who refused to deploy to Afghanistan on the grounds that Barack Obama isn't really a citizen and therefore not entitled to be president.  Courts across the country have shut down these kinds of suits chalenging the President's citizenhship; Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961--two years after it became a state.
  
  
• Joseph Simmons, Jr.-- son of rap legend Rev. Run of Run DMC--pleads guilty to disorderly conduct after being busted in Manhattan while rolling a joint in his car back in May.  The deal calls for him to complete one day of community service and the weed charge will be dropped.
  
  
• As Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing comes to an end, some Republicans admitted that after studying her judicial record, they see that she is mainstream.  Yet some say they still don't know how they'll vote on her--because of that comment in a 2001 speech.
  
   
• Police are looking for the Carrollton woman who allegedly gave wine to the 9-month-old she was babysitting.  The mom had asked Tammy Truitt to watch her four young children Tuesday because of a family emergency; when their grandmother came to pick them up that night, the baby was unconscious.  Tests at Tanner Medical pegged his blood alcohol level at .33; he was sent home and is fine.
  
   
• Atlanta is doing it and doing it and doing it well.  A new survey from Trojan--yes, the condom makers Trojan--gives new meaning to the name "Hotlanta" as it finds Atlanta is the most sexually satisfied metropolis in America!  73% of metro Atlantans say they are happy with their sex lives.  The most sexually active city?  Houston.  In that category, Atlanta is number 2.
  
  
• Morehouse College celebrates Summer Commencement tomorrow at 10 a.m.  Political strategist Jamal Simmons, a '93 Morehouse grad, will bring the commencement address.
  
  
• A Virginia newspaper is expressing regret for editorials it published back in the 50s which urged the "Massive Resistance" movement.  It was the response to the Supreme Court's Brown v Board of Education ruling outlawing school segregation, and the policy cut funding to schools which dared to integrate.  Former Virginia Governor Doug Wilder says the Richmond Times-Dispatch didn't go far enough in acknowledging just how much harm it helped cause back then.
  
  
• The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  scattered showers, a mix of clouds and some sun, high 87, lows in the mid 60s.  Saturday and Sunday, mostly sunny and highs in the 80s.