Atlanta Flash Floods: Fulton County and Other Schools Closed

Heavy rains and flash floods hit Atlanta and other parts of Georgia throughout Monday. Hundreds of schools were shut down, including all the schools in the Fulton county. Fulton county and many other counties'...

Teen Son Arrested in Ga. Deputy Shooting

" LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (Map, News) - A 17-year-old boy was arrested Friday and charged with fatally shooting his mother, who was a sheriff's deputy, and his two small sisters, authorities said. Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr. was charged with murder in the deaths at the family...

Feds to deport Lawrenceville man, former Nazi guard

The American federal government has decided after decades of protecting and hiring ex-Nazis fleeing justice in European courts that they are now willing to deport former Nazi personnel residing in the United...

Teen jailed for TB denied having disease, officials say

"When doctors told Francisco Santos he had tuberculosis Friday, health officials said the Gwinnett County 17-year-old refused to believe it. Then the wiry, dark-haired youth refused to submit to any treatment....

Mansion Madam, Lisa Ann Taylor, Looking For A Sex Columnist Job

"As she awaits trial as the "Mansion Madam," Lisa Ann Taylor is looking for job, caring for kittens and girding for a bruising legal fight. Prosecutors say the former Penthouse Pet charged clients up to $10,000 to perform sex acts in her million-dollar house in the Sugarloaf...

Flight Attendant Kicks Mom off Plane

Is this an isolated case of an intolerant flight attendant, or is it symptomatic of shift in relationship between the public and an industry that has become a de facto police force, with the power to deny people their right to travel?"A Gwinnett County mother says she wants...

Film Pirate Arrested For Filming Sc-Fi Movie 'Transformer'.

"Among the five people jailed nationwide on charges of film piracy, using camcorders to tape the sc-fi movie 'Transformers' is a Gwinnett County Man known by the name Tyrone F. Simpson."

Sheriff's kill African immigrant in custody via Tazer torture

While people talk about torture and prisoner abuse in American military prisons, prisoners in the United States are equally subjected to similar abuses in direct violation of the U.S. Constitution and all national and international agreements on basic human...

Lisa Ann Taylor Faces Radio Interview

"The two women accused of running a house of prostitution in Gwinnett County's Sugarloaf subdivision maintained their innocence in a radio interview on Friday. The attorney for one of the pair said that most of the evidence in the case was illegally obtained, and should be...

Is prostitution prevalent in Gwinnett?

"The phrase “sex sells” usually has to do with advertising. The Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue, for example, is full of scantily clad twenty-somethings using our hormones to control us like puppets so we will fill our closets with their clothes. bb I personally read it...

A Closer Look At The Acts Of Lisa Ann Taylor & Nicole Probert

"In a scandal reminiscent of the Heidi Fleiss debauchery of the early 1990's, Gwinnett residents Lisa Ann Taylor, 42, and Nicole Probert, 30, were escorted away by policemen on January 3, 2007, on charges of prostitution. Talk of the arrest began to buzz shortly after the...

Two More Of Lisa Ann Taylor's Client Charged in Brothel Case

"Two more arrests were made in an alleged prostitution ring and the Gwinnett County woman accused of running a brothel from her posh mansion was expected to speak out Wednesday. Two more men have been charged by Gwinnett County authorities in connection with a case alleging...

Police have saved us, but from what?

"The Gwinnett County police have done it again. Saved us all from the unseemly underbelly of the criminal underworld. First, they closed up shop in what we now are told was a newly developed Sugarloaf red-light district by arresting "Luscious" Lisa Ann Taylor ( I thought of...

2 Men Charged with Patronizing Lisa Ann Taylor's Brothel

"Gwinnett County police are waiting for two men, expected to turn themselves in Thursday night. The two are allegedly clients of one of the two women charged with prostitution at the Sugarloaf subdivision. Police have charged both men with pandering. They say that they are...

Prosecutor to pursue Lisa Ann Taylor's brothel clients

"Prosecutors plan to go to a grand jury with their case against two women accused of running a brothel out of a mansion in an exclusive suburban neighborhood -- a case that Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter says might lead to charges against the brothel's upscale...

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