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Posted: 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Damon Evans Resigns; Teens Sleeping In Do Better In School; Woman Exhumes, Then Lives With Her Twin & Late Husband 

By Veronica Waters

UGA's AD is out after a DUI; allowing teens to get an extra half-hour of Zs may help them in school; a Pennsylvania widow who had two relatives dug up so they could live with her says she "felt differently about death."  Get details on today's KISS News Now!

 

 

  • The "help wanted" sign is hanging in Athens.  University of Georgia Athletic Director Damon Evans resigned, four days after his DUI arrest in Atlanta.   He has apologized again, and says he has a long road toward rebuilding his rep and his career. Evans is a married father of two; the police report says the 40-year-old was with another woman, holding 28-year-old Courtney Furhmann's panties in his lap.  She was arrested for disorderly conduct.  Evans gets three months salary as severance, plus a $100,000 longevity bonus.  He's been with UGA since 2004 and was the SEC's first black athletic director. 



  • There were shouts of celebration--"Yes! Yes! They got him! They got him!"--as neighbors got the news that the suspected killer of a much-loved Atlanta grocer is in custody. Baik Sung, whom everyone called "PaPa," was fatally stabbed last week in an apparent robbery. His cash register and cell phone were gone. Oderrick Boone, 26, was arrested in Syracuse, New York. He will have a hearing there before extradition to Georgia. "PaPa" was known for extending credit to those in the neighborhood who needed it, and giving candy to kids when they visited the Southern Supermarket.

  • Arson investigators are working to determine if a fire at a Cobb County mosque was deliberately set. The Masjid Al-hedaya on Powder Springs Street in Marietta is known as the Islamic Center of Marietta. The fire broke out overnight, after members had locked up the mosque following the evening's prayers. A congregation member says they have never received any threats. There was heavy damage to the mosque's front entrance and prayer hall.

  • The GBI will decide whether to file charges against a Paulding County deputy who had to be Tased by fellow officers.  Patrick Houston, a nine-year veteran of the force, sparked a standoff after a domestic violence call from his live-in girlfriend.  The sheriff says Houston was still carrying a drink in his hand when he came out of the house; he was stun-gunned at the hospital because he kept trying to leave.

  • We know the dangers of texting while driving.  Now, a new report suggests pedestrians who text or chat on cell phones while walking are tripping on curbs, walking into traffic and even stepping into manholes.  Technology companies are trying to help with transparent screens or applications that turn speech into text.

  • Still mailing letters?  The post office wants to raise rates--again.  The postmaster general said in March that another increase was coming.  First-class stamps went up to 44 cents a year ago in May. 

  • All the Gulf states' beaches have now been touched by the spill with the discovery of tar balls in Texas.  Boats doing oil skimming have been hampered by small storms.  Officials say there's no way to tell if the Texas tar balls came off a ship or arrived on a Gulf current.

  • Allowing teens to sleep in another 30 minutes may help them excel at school.  A posh Rhode Island boarding school started class at 8:30 instead of 8:00, and found kids were more on time, more alert and in a better mood--even ate better breakfasts.  It may all be biology: teens tend to be in their deepest sleep around dawn, and have trouble getting to sleep before 11:00 p. m.

  • State police in Pennyslvania haven't decided whether to charge a 91-year-old woman who had her late husband and twin sister exhumed to keep her company.  Jean Stevens' sister died last fall; her husband passed away in 1999.  She won't say who dug them up within days of their burials, but is upset with whoever tipped off the cops about it.  Stevens says of her sister's June's body, dressed in a nice housecoat in the spare bedroom and spritzed with pricy perfume, "I put glasses on her. When I put the glasses on, it made all the difference in the world.  Of course her eyes were closed; your eyes sink in and and her eyelids were down.  But I would fix her up.  I'd fix her face up all the time."  Her late husband's body was on a sofa in the garage. 

  • Deja vu all over again?  A woman crashes into a liquor store--twice.  Monday afternoon, the driver in a Mazda Miata smashed into Green's Package Store on Ponce.  She claimed her brakes gave out as she was parking.  But this is the second time that same woman has crashed into that same liquor store.

  • The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:  sunny, high 90; Tuesday night, lows 66-71.  Wednesday, partly to mostly sunny, with a hot high near 95.
 
 
 

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