After getting word from his family that Jaime Hood was considering a surrender but feared for his life, Athens-Clarke County Police posted a Facebook message giving Hood a number he can call to arrange to turn himself in without fear. They hope to catch him before Sunday's funeral of 34-year-old Officer Buddy Christian, who was killed Tuesday as Hood ran from officers investigating a kidnapping/carjacking report. Officer Tony Howard is recuperating well at Athens Regional Medical Center. A neighbor says the Athens woods and neighborhood where they grew up is Hood's backyard, and if he wants to stay hidden--he will.
Can faith help make you fat? A study out of Northwestern authored by Matthew J. Feinstein shows that young people who go to church, Bible study or some religious event at least once a week are 50% more likely to be obese by middle age than those who do not. There are several possible explanations: church socials often feature food; church members broaden their social network, leading to more opportunities to meet over a meal; plus, prayer is not an especially active physical activity. An earlier study from Purdue finds Baptists tend to be heavier than other faiths; Jewish, Muslim and Buddhists tended to be the least overweight. White evangelicals are the only major religious group opposed to First Lady Obama's "Let's Move" anti-obesity initiative.
Elizabeth Taylor's funeral started fashionably late--exactly the way the screen diva wanted it. Thursday's private service was delayed 15 minutes, at Taylor's request, so she could have one last dramatic entrance for the private service with just a few dozen relatives and friends. There was no hearse or procession. Liz Taylor died Wednesday after a six-week hospitalization for congestive heart failure.
Is Freaknik making a comeback? A couple of competing local promoters hope so. One has a permit for an event at Grant Park; the other is trying to get one for South Bend Park off Lakewood, both for the weekend of April 15. One Freaknik veteran now in his 30s tells the AJC people should stop trying to "force" Freaknik and "relive a past that they were never a part of."
Grady High School in Atlanta will represent Georgia at a national mock trial tournament in Phoenix this May. Grady won the state championship recently for the third year in a row, beating out the former national champions at Jonesboro High in Clayton County.
A Marietta man is sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for preying on teenagers online. A jury convicted 38-year-old Michael Macaluso of pretending to be a teen boy or girl online himself, convincing boys on MySpace and Facebook to send him masochistic sexual pictures and videos of themselves. Investigators found thousands of those on his computer.
UGA tailgaters, break out your coolers, tables and tents. North Campus will welcome you this fall, five hours before kickoff. UGA clamped down on tailgating following a big trash and human waste debacle during the '09 season--but the clamping down was so strict tailgaters dropped off substantially. They're easing up now--but grills and kegs are still a no-no.
Now that DeKalb Police are no longer in a ticket-writing slowdown, the traffic court can't keep up with the citations. The chief judge says they've got a backlog of 2,000 tickets a week--and points to budget cuts that resulted in a loss of the temps who were doing the data entry. This, on top of an existing 100,000-ticket backlog in DeKalb, which does the most volume of any traffic court in the state.
The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: sunny high of 67; lows in the upper 40s to low 50s.
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