(Thursday, 25 June 2009)  Metro police and state troopers bring the 'Summer Heat;' South Carolina's governor admits he flew out of the country for an affair, but says he won't quit his job; new mom Jill Scott confirms her breakup, but Jermaine Dupri says don't believe all the gossip you read.  It's all on today's KISS News Now!

• Slow down!  Metro Atlanta police and state troopers in several counties are cracking down on aggressive driving and speeding this summer as part of the "100 Days of Summer Heat" campaign.  They also want to provide traffic education--for example, focusing on Georgia's Move-Over law, which says drivers must move over one lane for emergency vehicles stopped on the side of the highway--or, if they can't move over a lane, to slow down to less than the speed limit--and be prepared to stop. The law is meant to keep officers and traffic violators safe from crashes with passing cars.
  
  
• South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford called it "moral legitimacy" when he was a three-term U. S. congressman voting to impeach President Clinton.  Now Sanford's apologizing for an affair of his own.  He says they've been friends for eight years, lovers for one, and that he will not resign. 
  
  "Over the time that I have left in office, I'm going to devote my energy to building back the trust the people of this state have placed in me,'' Sanford said.
  
  Sanford came clean after a weeklong disappearance led to questions about his whereabouts.  Staffers said the GOP governor was hiking the Appalachian Trail in an effort to clear his head after fighting a losing battle against accepting federal stimulus dollars.  It was quickly learned that he was visiting his lover in Argentina.
  
  The State newspaper says an anonymous source sent them copies of e-mails between the couple from Sanford's personal e-mail account back in December, but they didn't print them until now.  Tipped off that Sanford was flying back to Atlanta from Argentina, a reporter met him at the airport, but was rebuffed when asking the 49-year-old about his visit to Buenos Aires.  When the paper contacted the governor's office to inform them they had the e-mails they believed to be legit, Sanford held a press conference.  He says he is stepping down as head of the Republican Governors' Association.
  
  Sanford's wife learned of the affair five months ago, and reportedly kicked him out two weeks ago; in a statement she now says he has earned a chance to resurrect their marriage.
  
  

• A California businessman is suing Reverend Creflo Dollar, accusing him of stealing his idea to text-message devotional messages for $4.99 a month.  Devone Lawson says Dollar upped the price by a dollar, called it "Word on the Go" and made $50 million off subscriptions to it this past year alone.
  
   

• Jermaine Dupri tells AccessAtlanta not to take seriously this week's gossip from the National Enquirer that he and Janet Jackson are splitting up because she blames him for a career decline.  Dupri said, quote, "how has Janet's career declined if the last movie she did was number 1 and they're making part two?"  Tyler Perry is currently shooting Why Did I Get Married Too around Inman Park and the metro.
  
  


• But as for breakups, Jill Scott confirms she and her former fiancé are no longer together.  Scott tells essence.com she and John Roberts are working on co-parenting two-month-old Jett Hamilton, working on being friends, and she is sure he will continue to be in his son's life.
  
  

  She tells essence.com about being in labor for 36 hours, and the magazine asked her about whether her "hubby-to-be" was providing support then...and Scott dropped the bombshell of the breakup: "He was there and for a couple of days afterwards while I stayed in hospital, but John and I are no longer together. When you have a baby you're dealing with a lot of emotions and I don't know how much of it had to do with us breaking up, but it happens. We definitely love our son and we are co-parenting and working on being friends. It is what it is. I have a lot of support, so I want for nothing as far as that's concerned. I know some might criticize me or the fact that my son is being raised in a single-parent home, but I wasn't raised in a two-parent home and I had a good relationship with my dad. I have hopes for him and I'm sure his father will do his part as well."
  
  

• A 25-year-old Cumming mom is jailed after leaving her five-month-old son in a Chevy Blazer for 45 minutes while she and her 11-year-old daughter shopped for hair dye.  Krystal Whitehead's baby survived and was taken by DFCS.  Both front seat windows were rolled down, the back driver's side window was halfway open and the truck was not running. Police said the baby was found in a child safety seat, in temperatures abou 95 degrees. 
  
  

• Attorney General Eric Holder is seeking support for erasing the gap in prison sentences for crack and powder cocaine crimes. The disparity hits black defendants the hardest.
  
  

• The U. S. Supreme Court could decide today whether to hear arguments in the case of Troy Davis, on death row for the 1989 killing of Savannah cop Mark McPhail.  Lawyers want an evidentiary hearing, as seven of nine witnesses at his original trial have recanted.
  
  

• The lien holder on Evander Holyfield's Fayette County estate demands full repayment of the original $10 million loan--or the boxer's home could go up for foreclosure.  Holyfield faced a similar foreclosure threat last summer but worked out a deal; asked about the state of his finances, Holyfield has said, "I'm not broke, I'm just not liquid."
  
     

• The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  a code orange smog alert; mostly sunny with a high around 92, low 72.  Friday, partly sunny, a 30% chance of isolated afternoon or evening thunderstorms; high of 94.