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Police in Georgia investigating hit-and-run crash that injured pedestrian
DALTON, Ga. — Above video: Your Monday headlines. Police in Georgia are investigating a hit-and-run incident that injured a pedestrian. It happened Saturday night in Dalton. According to the Dalton Police Department, the crash occurred shortly after 10 p.m. on Vernon Avenue. "Witnesses reported seeing a single-cab black pickup...
Elderly Woman Charged with Hitting Pedestrian in Walmart Parking Lot
An eighty-five-year-old Trion woman was charged after video footage showed her vehicle hitting a pedestrian in the parking lot of Walmart in Trion. According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, the pedestrian was walking into the store with her family and moved to the side to get out of the path of the vehicle driven by Mamie Hartline. The sheriff’s department maintains that video footage from Walmart surveillance shows Hartline swerving toward the family and striking a young female with the mirror of her vehicle. After striking the pedestrian, the footage shows Hartline’s vehicle slowing down, and words were exchanged between the victim’s family members. Hartline then parked the car, went inside, and started grocery shopping.
Georgia man faces up to 20 years after arson conviction in Whitfield County
WHITFIELD COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia man will stay behind bars after being convicted of first degree arson. A Whitfield County jury found 38-year-old Robert Douglas Vance of Woodstock, Georgia guilty of setting a house on fire in Varnell, Georgia, according to the Whitfield County District Attorney's Office. Vance...
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