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Posted: 11:41 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009

Flood Damage: Quarter-Billion Dollars; Alpharetta Sweet Talker; There's An App For That Background Check 

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By Veronica Waters

  • Flood damage estimates in Georgia now top $250 million dollars.  Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine says a lot of these claims will be considered uninsured losses, because many property owners do not have flood insurance.  While the feds usually require people in flood plains to get flood insurance, many claims are coming in from areas where the coverage is optional.

  • In metro Atlanta, the folks who help keep things safe and comfortable are also at the mercy of Mother Nature.  The DOT is waiting for the week's floodwaters to recede before they can check bridges for damage.  Georgia Power says an estimated 3,000 people will be without electricity until the water goes down; crews can't get into neighborhoods or even some of their own flooded substations.

  • Nine deaths in Georgia are now blamed on flooding.  Among the deaths, a woman who was called to come in to work early on Monday morning, and a teen who was swept away as he and a friend tried to help rescue a stranded driver.  Six people have drowned in Douglas County alone. 

    The family of a toddler swept from his father's arms during raging floodwaters in Carroll County is still in shock.  Craig Crawford sobbed as he recalls that he did everything he could to save his little boy, Slade, when their trailer was ripped in half and the family was plunged into fast-moving currents.  Crawford's wife, Bridgett, hung on to their one-year-old son Cooper for six hours, clinging to a tree, until rescue crews could help them.

     

  • Alpharetta Police want to have a conversation with this smooth talker who's conning women into financing his fun.  Keith Bernard Jones allegedly convinces his victims that he's expecting a big payday from an invention of his; cops say his story is the invention.  He's supposedly gotten one woman to finance a Chevy Avalanche for him; another paid for his hotel stay, during which he racked up $1,000 in charges.  Authorities suspect Jones has other victims, and anyone who knows his whereabouts or suspects they've been victimized by Jones is asked to call police in Alpharetta.

  • A swim club in suburban Philadelphia may be fined up to $50,000 for kicking out black and Hispanic day camp kids who had paid to swim there once a week over the summer.  Attorney Brian Mildenberg says his client, a black girl, heard a club member say, "What are all these black kids doing here? and, "I am scared they might do something to my child.''  Mildenberg says in 2009, the Valley Club had a total of 155 paid memberships--none of whom were black.  The club blames the fine on a "media firestorm," but a member of the board of directors acknowledges that comments about the children changing "the complexion" of the club was a "terrible choice of words."

  • DeKalb County Police are questioning a man after two men and child were found murdered at a home on Monterey Drive.  Cops believe  the motive could've been a dispute between that man and someone inside the house.  Among the dead is a three-year-old child; one woman survived.

  • A 19-year-old Ohio man gets 10 years in prison for making his 18-month-old niece smoke weed.  A pawn shop found the video of it on Melvin Blevins' camcorder.  His 16-year-old girlfriend holds the toddler while Blevins sticks a pipeful of pot in her mouth.  The teen girl will serve six months in juvenile detention.

  • Want to run a background check on your new love interest?  There's an app for that.  Intelius this week introduced iPhone application "Date Check," which an ad says is like "having a private investigator right in your own purse."  The app, using a phone number and name, pulls up a wealth of information including net worth, criminal records, compatibility and their living situation. 

  • A Stone Mountain man and two codefendants from Louisiana get probation for a Southern University band hazing incident that put two band members in the hospital.  Carlo-Andres Carter was among seven Southern students arrested, and he pleaded no contest in the incident before last year's Bayou Classic in Baton Rouge.  Investigators say they beat members of the French horn section with a 2x4.

  • Twenty-one months ago, Plaxico Burress was the talk of the sports world after he caught the New York Giants' winning touchdown pass in the 2008 Super Bowl. Today, he wakes up behind bars--having spent his first night in Rikers for a guilty plea to weapons charges.

  • President Barack Obama's appearance for the entire hour on CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" was a ratings bonanza.  More than 7 million viewers tuned in--the biggest number since 2005, when Dave had Oprah Winfrey on his show as they did a kiss-and-make-up after a years-long feud.

  • The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: partly cloudy, high of 84, low Wednesday night of 69.

 
 
 

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