A postal worker is arrested for stabbing his boss; a little girl is injured in a freak accident in a Virginia Highlands playground; Al Jarreau may be back on the road by week's end; African women run a higher risk of an aggressive cancer. See the headlines on today's KISS News Now!
A postal worker is accused of stabbing his supervisor at the postal service bulk mail center on James Jackson Parkway near Bolton Road. Claudius Sebastian Mapp of Covington was arrested late Sunday night. Atlanta Police say the 42-year-old Mapp walked up behind his boss and cut 55-year-old Joseph Jose on the face and ear before stabbing him in the back seven times. Mapp reportedly told arresting officers that he is a law student who knows his rights and is therefore refusing to give a statement. Police had no motive for the attack.
A day in the park turns into a nightmare for a seven-year-old girl. She was hit by a falling tree limb Sunday afternoon as she rode on a swing. The child was critically wounded with neck and back injuries after the massive branch fell 30 feet at John Howell Park on Virginia Avenue in Atlanta. Miraculously, a five-year-old girl also on the swings was not hurt.
A champagne toast brought in the start of Sunday liquor sales in Snellville. Dozens of residents crowded a Mellow Mushroom on Main yesterday afternoon as Mayor Oberholtzer led the bubbly toast to celebrate the 2-to-1 vote allowing restaurants to pour beer and wine on Sundays. Business owners predict up to a 15% bump in revenue.
Al Jarreau hopes to be back on tour by the end of the week. He's reportedly in good spirits and feeling better since his pre-concert collapse last week in the French Alps because of breathing problems exacerbated by the altitude.
In KISS news about your health: African women are at a higher risk of a more aggressive and harder-to-treat form of breast cancer. Michigan researchers found that more than a quarter of black American women and about 16 percent of white women have the "triple negative" form of the disease, but among women of African heritage, the number jumped to a shocking 82%. It backs up previous studies that while black women face a lower risk for breast cancer in general, when the disease does strike, it does so at an earlier age--and with more deadly results.
Former Atlanta Hawk Lorenzen Wright is missing. His mom in Tennessee filed a police report after Wright, who came to visit his kids in Smyrna late last week, disappeared. He was last seen Sunday at a Memphis barber shop. Some relatives suspect foul play, but his dad says he refuses to concede that Wright is actually missing right now.
It's pot art. A Cherokee County man found quite the hidden treasure in a painting he bought at a post office auction: four pounds of marijuana. Eighty-year-old Gordon Clement, who bought it five years ago, was about to sell the painting at another auction. When he discovered the pot, he called the cops. The drugs were worth nearly $5,000.
Thousands of wanna-be stars are lining up today in New Orleans to audition for "American Idol.'' Already, 16,000 have tried out in Nashville, plus another 10,000 in Milwaukee. The auditions today are for show producers only, and the AI judges will fly in at a later time to hand out the golden tickets. Other audition cities this season: New York, Austin, and San Francisco.
The annual Comic-Con pop culture convention ends in San Diego with an attendee being stabbed in the face. Police say fans were waiting to discuss a sci-fi flick; the attacker in his twenties decided another man was invading his personal space by sitting too close to him--and stabbed the guy near his eye with a pen.
The KISS 104.1 weather forecast:a mix of hazy sunshine and clouds, with a 40% chance of scattered showers and a high of 94.
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