The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office says a man who ran away from a Georgia State Patrol traffic stop on Macon Highway at White Oak Drive is now in custody.

There is a new commander at the Franklin County Detention Center: Franklin County Sheriff Steve Thomas says Sheriff’s Lieutenant Tracy Clay will take charge of the lockup in Carnesville. 

There were no serious injuries reported in a shooting at a store in Hall County: police in Oakwood say the store owner fired his gun after he was attacked by a man and a woman. Raul Rios and Esmeralda Valdez have been arrested on assault charges. The Oakwood Police investigation is ongoing.

The Georgia State Patrol is investigating a deadly crash in Columbia County: Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputies Kenny Ingram and Anthony White were en route to Augusta to pick up an inmate when their cruiser slammed into the rear end of a tractor-trailer rig on Interstate 20. Both deputies were killed.

Atlanta Police say a man arrested in the stabbing of two people at a MARTA station is linked to a triple stabbing that happened Monday. 32 year-old Ahmad Rasheed was arrested Tuesday. All five victims in the two attacks survived.

A suspect in a murder in Tennessee is arrested in south Georgia: 38 year-old Thomas Arnold was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy on I-75 near Cordele. He’s the suspect in a homicide in Cumberland County Tennessee. A former Columbus police officer is heading to prison for murder. Ex-sergeant Bill Talley pleaded guilty in the shooting death of his girlfriend, who was killed in her home in Muscogee County. Talley gets life with no possibility of parole.

There are involuntary manslaughter charges for two adults after the death of a teenager in Laurens County: a 15 year-old was killed while playing with a rifle in an apartment in Dublin. Suspects in a million dollar jewelry heist were, at last report, still on the run: the robbery happened at a jewelry store in Liberty County, where store employees say someone cut a hole in the roof and emptied the safe at the store in Hinesville.

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