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Posted: 11:16 a.m. Friday, Aug. 13, 2010

Couple Charged In Toddler's Death; Dr. Laura's 'N*****, N*****, N****' Rant (AUDIO); Delta Launches Facebook Ticket App 

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By Veronica Waters

  • An Atlanta woman and her boyfriend are charged with beating her three-year-old daughter to death.  Atlanta Police Officer James Polite says officers saw 23-year-old Shuntae Battle and 30-year-old Juan Johnson early Thursday outside their home near Hollowell Parkway, when they claimed they'd noticed the girl was having breathing troubles and said they were taking the toddler to the hospital.  The girl died hours later, and a preliminary autopsy said the death was due to blunt force trauma to the chest.   Battle and Johnson are expected in court this morning.

  • Who can say the N word?  Dr. Laura is apologizing for repeatedly saying it during an August 10 call with a black woman who complained that her white husband's friends ask her questions about what blacks think and feel, and throw around racial epithets in her home.  Click to listen. Media Matters: Dr. Laura's Rant, Part 1 Schlessinger said the woman was hypersensitive and that she shouldn't enter an interracial marriage without a sense of humor. 

    • "Black guys use it all the time," she said.  "Turn on HBO and listen to a black comic, and all you hear is n*****, n*****, n*****.  I don't get it. If anybody without enough melanin says it, it's a horrible thing. But when black people say it, it's affectionate."

    Here's Part 2 of her call with Jade:






    Thursday, Dr. Laura apologized repeatedly on the air, saying that what she had done on Tuesday's show was wrong and wouldn't happen again. "I didn't intend to hurt people, but I did. And that makes it the wrong thing to have done," she said, adding,   "The caller in question (her name is Jade), called for help from me, and didn't get it, because we got embroiled in the "n" word, and I'm really sorry about that, because I'm here for only one reason and that's to be helpful, so I hope Jade or somebody who knows her is listening, and hope she will call me back and I will try my best to be helpful, which is what she wanted from me in the first place and what she did not get."

  • Five weeks after Damon Evans resigned from UGA for an embarrassing DUI arrest, the Bulldogs have hired a new athletic director.   A source says UGA has tapped Florida associate athletic director Greg McGarity.  He's an Athens native and Georgia grad who served as an assistant to Vince Dooley.

  • What was Lorenzen Wright doing before he disappeared?  Court papers quote his ex-wife as telling cops he left her Memphis home carrying money and a box of drugs the night he disappeared, after telling someone on the phone he was going to "flip something for $110,000.''  Wright was found 10 days later, shot to death in the woods.

  • If you're throwing chicken on the grill this weekend, be careful.  Health officials say poultry remains the leading culprit in food poisoning outbreaks.  Beef and leafy vegetables are second and third. 

  • For the fourth time in two years, Barrow County is searching for a fire chief.  Chief Donald Towne, who was suspended back in June, was fired this week following accusations of stealing cable TV. 

  • Duluth may loosen rulesfor drinking on the square.  Its alcohol review board today considers a proposal to let people sip drinks from plastic cups while strolling the town green during weeknights and weekends.  Right now, it's only allowed for special events.

  • Click through your old roommate's new baby photo album, play Farmville, update your status, book a seat to San Diego.  Delta has just launched its new "Ticket Window" feature on Facebook, allowing you to search, book and share flights without ever getting off the page.  Delta says Facebook is the most popular website among passengers using onboard wi-fi.

  • President Obama and family travel to the Gulf Coast this weekend to support touristy businesses devastated by the oil spill.  They'll spend time on Panama City Beach.  BP is analyzing tests to see whether the mud and cement pumped into the top of the blown-out well accidentally created a permanent seal, negating the need for more relief well drilling. 

  • A suspected racially-motivated serial killer is awaiting extradition to Michigan.  Elias Abuelazam is suspected in up to 20 stabbings of brown-skinned men.  He was arrested Wednesday at Hartsfield-Jackson, ready to fly to Tel Aviv.  His mother says that her 33-year-old son, an Israeli citizen, is innocent.

  • The Postal Service is changing its marching orders, and later this month, military families should once again be able to send cigarettes to servicemembers overseas.  A law aimed at preventing smuggling had unintentionally banned families from shipping smokes to relatives.  The new rules had required Express Mail, which isn't always available to military addresses overseas.

  • The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  partly cloudy, humid and a chance of afternoon showers, with highs in the mid-90s.
 
 
 

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