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GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — One person is dead after police said a gunman hijacked a bus from downtown Atlanta with 17 people on board while holding a gun to the bus driver’s head. The incident started at 45 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard around 4:30 p.m. Atlanta police said they responded to initial reports of a gunman on the bus that was holding hostages and that there had possibly been a discharge of a weapon. The call then immediately dropped. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Scheirbaum said that 911 then got a second call from a family member of a person on...

An Atlanta family said it received a voter registration form this week for their cat Cody Tims – who died 12 years ago. "There's a huge push but if they're trying to register cats, I'm not sure who else they're trying to register,” the late feline’s owner, Carol Tims, told Fox5 Atlanta. “I'm not sure if they're trying to register dogs, mice, snakes.” The Tims say they found the form addressed to the cat in their mailbox on Wednesday. Carol Tims described Cody as a “great cat, indoor and outdoor” who “loved his family, loved his neighborhood” and lived to...

A well known Dallas base controversial talk show host, Reuben Armstrong is drafting a certified letter to Bishop Eddie Long demanding that he step down immediately from the Pulpit. The letter will convey Armstrong’s reasons for this demand including “Long’s alleged child predatory behaviors and the sexual abuse of young men in Long’s church", the New Birth Missionary Church. “Long's actions are of the devil and not of God”, says Armstrong. “Bishop Eddie Long is using the word of God to allegedly manipulate young men of his church for his own homosexual use”. Armstrong wrote extensively about Bishop Eddie Long’s...

The deputy, a 51-year-old woman just 5 feet tall, was simply no match for the inmate she was escorting to the courtroom, a 6-foot-1, 200-pound former college linebacker on trial for rape. Authorities say Brian Nichols overpowered deputy Cynthia Hall, took her gun, and easily gained access to the courtroom, where he went on to kill the judge and a court reporter. Security cameras captured images of him overpowering the deputy, but no one, it turned out, was watching the screens. There were more security gaffes. Prosecutors actually had asked for increased security surrounding Nichols last week after he was...

This time last year, pro-lifers around the Atlanta area had the first "Friday before Easter Sunday" prayer vigil at a late term abortion clinic. This is Surgi Center -- which across the street from one of the TBS (Turner Broadcasting Systems) buildings at 1113 Spring Street in Atlanta. At that time, a Deputy Sheriff (who moonlighted as a security guard at the abortion clinic) would arrest Pro-Lifers for being on a public sidewalk. There were "Death-scorts" -- Escorts for those going into the abortion clinic. Supposedly some of those were involved in witchcraft. This year is the difference between day...