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Posted: 10:31 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013

Reward for 'Buckhead Bandit;' Viagra for Weight Loss?; DNA Exonerates Ex-Cop 

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Atlanta police released a series of surveillance videos Tuesday night hoping to identify the man.

By Veronica Waters

Crime Stoppers offers a reward for the arrest of the "Buckhead Bandit," who has robbed ten businesses since New Year's Day. Atlanta Police detectives have posted surveillance video from several of the armed holdups on You Tube, hoping for a positive ID.

Anyone with information on the robberies is asked to contact Atlanta police commercial robbery investigators at (404) 546-4255 or Crime Stoppers at (404) 577-8477.

What started as a traffic stop leads police to crack a major identity theft case. An Atlanta woman, 32-year-old Angela Davida Miller, is jailed in Oconee County on a dozen counts of ID fraud. Deputies say she seemed more nervous than the stop called for, and gave odd answers to their questions. A search found a printer, voided checks, and numerous financial documents in the car--some of which were in a hidden compartment. So far, they've identified victims in three different states, and expect the case to grow.

Toyota is recalling 907,000 vehicles, mostly Corollas, around the world for faulty air bags and another 385,000 Lexus IS luxury cars for defective wipers. No reported accidents or injuries have been tied to either one. The air bags may not inflate well, and the wipers can get stuck in heavy snow.

In KISS news about your health: Viagra could become a weight-loss drug. German researchers found that mice who took the little blue pills managed to keep weight off despite a high-fat diet. And no, they weren't...let's say, "working off" the calories making baby mice. Seems the same molecule which helps regulate blood pressure also triggers the production of brown fat cells which burn off fat as energy. Hold off before grabbing your sugar daddy's pills though. It's not clear yet if it'll have the same slimming effect in humans.

Gwinnett County Police search for the car burglar who has broken into more than 20 vehicles at churches and parks since October. He takes everything from groceries to clothing, but often uses people's credit cards before they even know they've been hit. An average-build, 30ish or 40ish black male was seen on a Roswell Target security video after using a stolen card.

"Surprise, surprise, surprise." The catchphrase of TV's Gomer Pyle, played by Jim Nabors, is fitting as the 82-year-old notes that for the first time, he is acknowledging his homosexuality in the press. That's because Nabors and his longtime partner Stan Cadwallader, a former Honolulu firefighter he met in 1975, have now gotten married. They traveled to Washington State to Hawaii for the ceremony.

Hall County sheriff's deputies arrest an 18-year-old Flowery Branch High School senior, Tiffani Torres, for posting that hoax Instagram threat Monday that said there would be a shooting at the school. She was charged with a misdemeanor, disruption of a public school, and jailed on $1,000 bond.

YouTube may roll out a paid subscription service for individual channels this spring. Content creators could charge subscribers for everything from movies and concerts to live pay-per-view events and self-help shows. It'll cost an estimated one to five dollars a month. YouTube recently sent out solicitations asking some video producers to propose subscription-content ideas.

BP pays $4 billion in criminal penalties for the 2010 Gulf oil spill, and pleads guilty to the manslaughter of 11 rig workers. An executive also apologized--and one victim's family member says it's about time, because that's the first one they've ever gotten.

After 15 years in prison, which he called "hell on Earth," an ex-police captain in Ohio has been cleared of his ex-wife's murder. Now 66, Doug Prade was convicted of the 1997 shooting murder in 1998, without witnesses, fingerprints, or a murder weapon. There was a bite mark on the woman's body--but now DNA has shown it could not have come from Prade. Still, prosecutors are appealing, saying the DNA evidence is not convincing--meaning there could be a new trial. Prade says he is still deciding where he'll live and what he'll do now that he's free, but knows that he wants to work with the Ohio Innocence Project--the group that helped free him--on other cases of wrongfully convicted inmates.

The KISS 104 weather forecast: scattered showers and thunderstorms likely on and off, some possibly severe this afternoon, highs around 68. A tornado watch is in effect for metro Atlanta until 4:00 Wednesday afternoon. Morning lows dip into the mid-30s.

Veronica Waters

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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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