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Posted: 12:09 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

Hit & Run Driver Surrenders; Church PhotoShops Whitney Houston Picket 

By Veronica Waters

A 20-year-old man surrenders to Union City Police in Sunday morning's fatal hit-and-run of a teacher.  Twenty-nine-year-old Latara Worthy was celebrating her birthday with college friends when she was killed on South Fulton Parkway.   Jamonta Smith told police that he was returning home around 3:00 a.m., crested a hill, and struck something in the middle of the street.  He says after he stopped and didn't see anything, he continued home.  Smith is now out on bond.

Cobb County Police arrest a woman accused of stabbing a CCT bus driver Monday afternoon outside Town Center Mall.  The driver was trying to break up an argument between her and a man whose cell phone she'd borrowed.  Other passengers wrestled the knife she pulled away from her, but she grabbed a pen from the driver's shirt and stabbed him a couple of times with that, say police.

The accused Dunwoody daycare killer finally gets his day in court.  Fifteen months after he shot a man to death, Hemy Neuman goes on trial today with an insanity defense claiming that he didn't know his actions were wrong at the time.  Andrea Sneiderman, the widow of victim Rusty Sneiderman, is expected to be one of the first witnesses to testify.  Court documents indicate she and Neuman, her supervisor at GE Energy, were having an affair.  An expert says Neuman reported delusions which included visualizing singers Barry White as a demon and Olivia Newton-John as an angel.

The 32-year-old man who was shot during a domestic dispute at the Pizza Hut on Covington Highway has died.  According to DeKalb County Police, Samuel Wallace passed away Monday at Grady Hospital. 

Cobb County Police have identified the teenager who was killed over the weekend as he led an officer on a high speed chase.  17-year-old Darrell Pritchard of Stone Mountain died early Saturday morning after he crashed a 1996 Cadillac on the I-75 southbound ramp from Cumberland Boulevard. Another teen in the car also died.

A Michigan man whose son was killed while serving in the military has burned a replica of New Jersey's flag to protest the governor's decision to lower the American flag in honor of Whitney Houston.  John Burri torched the flag on his grill, saying the honor should be reserved only for veterans.

You may have heard that the Westboro Baptist Church from Kansas, which sets up anti-gay protests at high-profile and soldiers' funerals, planned to picket Whitney Houston's home going. Well, they didn't make it--but that didn't stop church leader Margie Phelps from tweeting a PhotoShopped picture of protesters in front of New Hope Baptist.  It was clearly fake, since the street to the church was blocked off.  But Phelps is getting her wish for publicity as reports about the phony picket make the Internet rounds.

The President and First Lady tonight host music legends and contemporary major artists for a celebration of Blues music and in recognition of Black History Month in the East Room of the White House.

After last week's big launch of Southwest Airlines beginning flights out of Atlanta, the Southwest CEO hops a flight back to Dallas--on Delta Airlines.  Gary Kelly was sitting in Delta's first-class last Monday...a section Southwest doesn't have on its flights.  Southwest also won't be able to fly direct to Dallas/Fort Worth until 2014 because of a 2006 compromise--and once they acquired AirTran, they had to stop those flights too.  Kelly says he was in a time crunch and flies other airlines when necessary.

The KISS 104 weather forecast:  decreasing cloudiness by afternoon, with a high around 63.

Veronica Waters

About Veronica Waters

Veronica Waters is the morning news anchor on KISS 104.1 and B-98.5FM. She is also an anchor and reporter for 95.

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