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Not Guilty Verdict In Teacher Sex Case; President Obama Accepts Nobel Prize; Guilty Plea In Test Cheating Scandal
- A former Marietta High School teacher is found not guilty of charges his sexual affair with a 17-year-old student was tantamount to sexual assault. Wednesday a Cobb County judge called the relationship Christopher King and the girl had "repugnant, repulsive, and gross" but ruled that it was not illegal, because she's over the age of consent. The lawyer for King--who is now in sales--says his client hopes to resume the relationship, but that the ball is now in the girl's court.
- President Barack Obama has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today in Norway. The wartime president notes he is receiving the prize days after committing more troops to Afghanistan. He says the nonviolence of Ghandi and Martin Luther King must be the world's north star, but it's not always practical...and says he is obliged to protect and defend America. Mr. Obama says he can't argue with those who says others are more deserving. He plans to give his $1 million prize to charity.
- A dental student from Howard University is among five young American Muslims now detained in Pakistan. Authorities say the men, ages 19 to 25, have told them that they traveled there to take part in a holy war and wanted to join militants on the Afghan border. The students told their parents they were going to a conference, but their parents had become concerned after seing a sort of farewell video from them showing war scenes and saying Muslims must be defended.
- An Ellenwood minister and his wife face federal charges of enticing an African woman to the United States, then forcing her to work as a barely-paid maid and nanny. Reverend Michael Babb and his wife Juna allegedly confiscated the Swaziland woman's passport and return ticket and told her she'd be jailed as an illegal if she left the house. The Babbs are free on bond. Reverend Babb pastors the Christ Assembly Atlanta Ministry in Decatur.
- A 12-year-old Florida boy could spend the next nine years in juvenile custody if convicted in the beating death of his baby cousin. Brittany Young testified she stopped to run an errand at Target on the 4th of July; when she got back to the car, the five-week-old girl was unconscious--and that when she asked the boy what had happened he replied, "Nothing." The prosecutor says the baby died of multiple skull fractures caused by a severe blow to the head.
- The former principal at Atherton Elementary in DeKalb County, Dr. James Berry, pleads guilty to doctoring standardized test results in a cheating scandal. Berry got two years probaton and a $1,000 fine. The judge told Berry that what he had done was wrong, although he understood the pressure he must have been under at the time.
- Mary Norwood formally concedes the Atlanta mayoral race to Kasim Reed. The recount confirmed reed as the mayor-elect, as Norwood picked up just one vote in the recount. Fulton County elections officials will recertify the new results today.
- A five-year-old Mountain View Elementary School student dies after being hit getting off the school bus on Davis Road. Cobb Police say 82-year-old Edith Anderson hit the gas instead of the brakes and slammed into the girl.
- The House Homeland Security Committee has voted to compel Tareq and Michaele Salahi to answer questions about their November 24th party-crashing foray into the White House. A lawyer says they'll plead the 5th.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: a mix of sun and clouds today, and a high around 47.
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