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Police car hits, kills pedestrian

Submitted by Beth Sawicki, Where U Live Producer
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012, 11:48pm

ATLANTA -- A pedestrian was struck and killed by a police car Tuesday morning.

The man was hit by a marked DeKalb County Police car, driven by Officer Jason Copper, on Memorial Drive, according to DeKalb County Police spokesman Maj. B. C. Harris.

Investigators said the police cruiser was en route to a chase resulting from an unrelated shooting at a south DeKalb County drive-in.

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Michael and Annamaria Davis told 11Alive's Paul Crawley the victim was their son, 27-year-old Clinton Hightower, and that he was on his way to his sister's house to babysit her children so she could go to work.

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MARTA budget squeezed by $130M revenue decline

Submitted by Julie Wolfe, 11Alive Reporter
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012, 10:36am

ATLANTA -- It's budget time, and MARTA is bracing for a huge decline in tax revenue. They expect $130 million less through 2016.

MARTA Spokesman Lyle Harris said the MARTA Board approved a "steady state" service plan for fiscal year 2013 that does not contemplate cuts in bus or rail but that utilizes approximately $33 million in reserves, to balance the budget. Also, employees will see no annual or merit wage increases for the fifth year in a row. They'll also have to contribute more for retirement and health insurance benefits. Capital projects are limited to safety, security, and regulatory requirements.

READ | 2013 BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS

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Eddie Owen fired from Eddie's Attic

Submitted by Michael H. King, Digital Executive Producer
Monday, May 14th, 2012, 7:01pm

DECATUR, Ga. -- Eddie has left the Attic. According to his personal Facebook page this morning, Eddie Owen, namesake of metro Atlanta's 20-year-old music venue Eddie's Attic, was fired last Friday night.

Owen, 56, sold the venue bearing his name in 2002, but he stayed on as manager and talent booker in the years since.

Under Owen's leadership, Eddie's Attic became one of the great places in the nation to premiere acoustic music, as well as the first place that many people got wind of artists like the Indigo Girls, Sugarland and John Mayer.

Late last year, Owen became manager of Red Clay Theatre in Duluth, where he books acts under the name "Eddie Owen Presents."

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Serial bank robbery suspect arrested

Submitted by Beth Sawicki, Where U Live Producer
Monday, May 14th, 2012, 12:59pm

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- DeKalb County Police have arrested a Stone Mountain man in connection with numerous bank robberies throughout the county.

Benjamin Rivers, 33, was taken into custody over the weekend after Crime Stoppers received several tips related to the robberies.

Witness statements led police to determine that each of the robberies occurred in similar ways -- a black man talking on a cell phone approached the teller and presented a demand note. After receiving money, he ran from the bank.

Rivers faces several charges related to the robberies.

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Man killed in Decatur home

Submitted by Michael H. King, Digital Executive Producer
Friday, May 11th, 2012, 3:25pm

DECATUR, Ga. (WXIA) - Police found the body of a man inside a Decatur home Friday morning.

The home is at 956 Sycamore Drive.

Police said they family had been called by the victim's employer after he did not show up to work on Thursday or Friday morning. The victim was described as being in his 50s.

They said there was trauma to the body, and that they were considering the death a homicide.

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FBI seeks help in locating serial bank robber

Submitted by Eden Godbee, Where U Live Producer
Friday, May 11th, 2012, 10:16am

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- Dekalb County Police and the FBI are seeking the public's assistance in locating a man they think is responsible for seven bank robberies in the DeKalb County area. 

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According to investigators, each of these robberies occurred in a "similar fashion." Witnesses said a black male would enter the banking center wearing a baseball cap, wait in line, then approach the teller window on a cellular phone and demand money from the teller. 

Investigators believe the same man conducted robberies at the following locations: 

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CDC: Half of young adults get sunburned

Submitted by The Associated Press on Friday, May 11th, 1:06 am

ATLANTA -- U.S. health officials are reporting that half of adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the past year.

Experts worry it's a sign young people aren't paying attention to the warnings about skin cancer.

The rate of sunburn is about the same as it was 10 years earlier, reversing progress reported just five years ago.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the study Thursday, which was based on a 2010 survey of about 5,000 young U.S. adults.

The CDC also reported that about 6 percent of all adults said they had done indoor tanning in the previous year. But nearly one-third of young white women did.

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