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... When police arrived, they noticed a window in the garage was smashed, the front door of the house was off its hinges, and the mailbox was dented and bloody. Enix kept yelling "Come on!" from inside the home, according to the report. He leaned out of an upstairs window and yelled that police would either have to shoot or taze him before he would be arrested again. When he realized one of the officers was equipped with a less-lethal shotgun, Enix retreated back inside the house. When asked to negotiate, he told police that all he wanted to do...

SNELLVILLE — City Councilman Melvin Everson is seeking a state House of Representatives seat in 2004. If he wins, Everson will be the first black Republican in state government, a milestone former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma achieved in Congress in 1994. Current mayor pro tem of Snellville, Everson, 45, announced his candidacy Monday for District 70, post 1. The seat is currently held by Charles Bannister, the former Lilburn mayor who is mulling over a race for Gwinnett Commission Chairman. “I’m running for the Legislature because it’s time for a change at the state Capitol. Too many major...