(Wednesday, 4 March 2009)  Lil Wayne's drug possession charges in Atlanta are thrown out; the Coast Guard has called off the search for two NFL players and an ex-college teammate who went missing on a weekend fishing trip; a Florida woman calls 911 over her McNuggets order.  Get the latest KISS News Now!

• Good news for Lil Wayne; his lawyer William "Bubba" Head says felony drug charges Atlanta police filed against the rapper three years ago have been thrown out because the search at Twelve at Atlantic Station was illegal.  Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, was accused of possessing marijuana and prescription pills in unmarked containers. 
  
  Head tells KISS the drugs weren't even in Wayne's personal hotel room--they were in one of a block of suites reserved by his company.
  
  "The amount of marijuana would fit under your fingernail," Head says.  "What they had apparently seen earlier was in the room of the hairdresser."
  
  Fulton County Superior Court Judge Michael Johnson also ruled that the evidence was inconsistent with the police report.  Head says somebody even doctored up a hotel maintenance call to try to support probable cause, but the evidence didn't support it.  He also says the accusation apparently came from a jealous maintenence worker--who was another Katrina evacuee, like Wayne himself.
  
  "It was really pretty lame, but the judge, hearing this, had to just stop and ask some questions because it made no sense," Head tells KISS 104.1.  We asked Head if the bizarre case--which mistakenly had Wayne arrested on a fugitive warrant in Idaho over the charges in 2007--had soured Wayne on Atlanta.
  
  "I don't think it's soured him because his mother lives here and he's got tons of friends and family here.  After Katrina, his house was blown away as was hers, and they all moved to Atlanta.  He comes here quite often, at least once or twice a month," says Head.
  
  
• The Coast Guard has called off the search for three fishing buddies missing off Florida's Gulf coast, presuming Marquis Cooper, Corey Smith and Will Bleakley have drowned.  They've found one lifejacket and a cooler 16 miles from the overturned 21-foot boat to which had one survivor had hung on for 40 hours in the water before being rescued.
  
  
• A Georgia lawmaker has proposed a bill which would actually limit how many embryos a woman may have implanted in her own body, and prevent other embryos from being frozen for future use.  Republican State Senator Ralph Hudgens says it's a response to the California case of the octuplets mom, and is sponsoring the legislation for an anti-abortion rights group, Georgia Right To Life.
  
  
• Acknowledging the hit Georgia's budget is taking in this recession, Governor Perdue now says he will accept one billion federal stimulus dollars earmarked for Georgia, though he says he doesn't believe it's "free money."
  
  
• A 24-year-old Atlanta man is charged with beating his pregnant girlfriend's 15-month-old daughter to death.  Walter Caldwell allegedly killed Tynisha Carlton Monday while her mom was being treated at Grady Hospital.
  
  
• They call him Little Houdini: a man being transported from Florida to Tennessee to face charges he stole a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer escaped a deputy's custody when the officer stopped off at a Waffle House in Cobb County.  30-year-old Chris Gay has a history of big rig thefts and escape attempts; police say he even stole Crystal Gayle's tour bus and drove it to a NASCAR race a few years ago.
  
  
• A Florida woman has been charged with misusing 911, calling the cops three times after McDonald's told her they'd run out of Chicken McNuggets.  The store refused to refund Latreasa Goodman's money, claiming all sales were final and offering her other food.  A company spokesman says she should've gotten her money back and she's being sent a gift card for a free meal.
  
  

• It's opening night for "Miss Evers'Boys," at True Colors Theatre in southwest Atlanta.  It's based on the 1932 Tuskegee Experiment, in which the government withheld penicillin from hundreds of black men to see how syphillis would affect them.  Jasmine Guy and TC Carson star as Nurse Evers and Dr. Broadus.
  
  
  
  
• The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  mostly to partly sunny, high 55 today, low of 35 tonight.  Thursday, partly sunny high of 64; Friday, partly sunny high of 71.