Classmates are mourning a Stone Mountain High School freshman killed by an out-of-control car; Massachusetts' newest Senator's nude pic gets attention. Is there a double standard in play?; ex-Senator John Edwards admits he fathered a daughter in his affair. Give us your thoughts on today's KISS News Now!
Charges are pending, and a 14-year-old girl is dead, after a Wednesday afternoon accident in front of Stone Mountain High School. Freshman Tanesha Williams and two other teenagers were hit by a 17-year-old driver's Crown Vic as they walked on the sidewalk. The other victims are at Grady Hospital. The driver of the car, Shaheed Saunders, 17, was also injured. DeKalb Police are investigating emerging witness statements that another car may have been involved, tapping the teen's Crown Vic and sending it out of control. Grief counselors will be on campus today.
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards publicly admits he's the father of his former videographer's daughter. Frances Quinn Hunter turns two next month. The ex-Senator released a statement saying he will continue to do everything he can for her, and it was wrong of him to ever deny paternity.
An ex-MTV reality TV star surrenders on charges he beat his five-month-old daughter to the point where she had broken bones and was black and blue all over. 23-year-old Markice Moore was on MTV's "From Gs to Gents" back in 2008 and is jailed on $20-thousand bond. A Smyrna cop says in 10 years on the job, he's never seen an infant so severely injured.
A spokesman for John Oxendine's gubernatorial campaign acknowledges it was the insurance commissioner's 13-year-old son who accidentally sprayed someone with birdshot on a weekend hunting trip. The group was on a quail preserve when a bystander about 30 yards back was shot in the right leg with some 30 shotgun pellets. Oxendine says accidents happen, and he thinks the story's a story only because he's the frontrunner for the GOP nomination.
A temp worker with the Georgia Department of Revenue is charged with swiping a $27-thousand check. But the revenue commissioner says he's less surprised at the theft, which happens in tough times, than he is with how Lisa Michele Darden got on the payroll in the first place. Darden was on probation for for theft and forgery convictions and has racked up more than a dozen arrests in the past 15 years.
It's back to work today for two New York City EMTs who were suspended without pay for allegedly refusing to help a dying pregnant woman while they were on a coffee break. Jason Green and Melisa Jackson insist they tried to help Eutisha Rennix by calling their dispatcher. They say even if someone had led them to her at the restaurant, which no one did, they didn't have the medical equipment to treat her.
A former Paulding County middle school teacher is arrested on molestation and sexual battery charges. Authorities don't know how long the relationship between 40-year-old Shanna Detwieler and a 14-year-old boy lasted, but deputies say that it didn't happen on school grounds, and the boy was not her student.
A special ed student in Cherokee County alleges his middle school teacher molested him. The boy says last week at Creekland Middle School, 26-year-old Kyle Campbell inappropriately touched him. Campbell was reassigned to a job where he has no contact with students and currently is jailed without bond.
Two days after his stunning win, Massachusetts Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown is heading to Washington. His schedule includes a meeting with his future state partner, Sen. John Kerry. President Obama and his Democratic allies are conceding that they may have to accept a less ambitious health overhaul bill than the one they've worked on over the last year.
People are talking about Brown's 1982 nude pictorial in Cosmopolitan magazine, in which he bares all but covers up his most intimate parts. Cosmo posted it online a few months ago, but it's getting new attention since Brown took 52% of the vote in a race which was widely expected to go to the State Attorney General, Martha Coakley. The seat was held by the Senate's "Liberal Lion," Ted Kennedy, from 1953 until his death last summer. There was little to no controversy raised about his naked pic, but when women show skin, they are often heavily criticized. Do you think there is a double standard about men and women posing naked? Did the picture help Brown in his campaign?
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed is inWashington for the National Mayor's Conference. He meets today with the Secretary of Transportation and will join other mayors in meeting with President Obama. Mayor Reed's top goal is to get money for the Peachtree Streetcar project, which he says will boost the city's $11 billion convention and tourism industry.
For the longest time, the biggest challenge was getting Bobby Brown clean and sober. Now, he's trying to get in shape. He will be one of the stars on the new season of "Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp'' when it premieres next month.
Celebrity Web site radaronline.com says the next issue of the National Enquirer will feature photos of Tiger Woods at Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services. The Mississippi facility conducts a sexual addiction program called "Gentle Path."
The "Small Smiles" dental clinics, which treat Medicaid patients in Georgia and 20 other states, will pay millions to settle a lawsuit that it put kids through unnecessary--and substandard--dental work including baby root canals and crowns.
Conan O'Brien and NBC have agreed to a $40 million-plus severance package. His last Tonight Show is expected to be Friday. He says, "I should've known something was up when NBC sent me that 2010 calendar that only went up to January." The deal says O'Brien won't bad-mouth the network, and he's been cleared to pursue opportunities on other networks.
The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: mostly cloudy with rain likely; high around 58.
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