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(AP) -- OBAMA-SAVANNAH
    Obama to visit Savannah in March
   
    SAVANNAH, GA (AP) - The White House says President Barack Obama
will visit Savannah on March 2nd as part of his "White House to
Main Street" tour.
    Obama plans to meet with workers, small business owners and
local leaders to share ideas for helping the economy grow and to
put Americans back to work.
    Additional details about the visit will be announced later.
    Earlier stops on the tour include the Lehigh Valley area of
Pennsylvania and Lorain County, Ohio.
   
OFFICER SHOT
    Atlanta-area police officer killed
   
    PALMETTO, GA (AP) - Fulton County officials say a police
officer from the city of Chattahoochee Hills was shot to death on
Monday.
    Colonel Jeff Holmes of the Fulton County Sheriff's Department
said officer Mike Vogt was driving down a dirt road in a sparsely
populated area when someone fired a high-powered weapon at him.
    Police say Vogt was able to call for help. Officers administered
first aid and he was rushed to a hospital.
    Holmes says police are looking for two to three men in a late
1980s Chrysler. He says people in the area reported hearing several
shots, but doesn't know if Vogt returned fire.
    Holmes says Vogt spent many years working as an officer in south
Fulton County, most recently with the Union city department.
   
INVESTIGATOR ARRESTED
    Former GA sheriff's officer charged
   
    DANIELSVILLE, GA (AP) - Authorities say the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation has arrested a former Madison County investigator on
charges of theft by taking, tampering with evidence and violation
of his oath of office.
    Madison County Chief Deputy Shawn Burns says Donald Glenn Carr
is suspected of taking evidence from an evidence locker. Burns says
Carr was booked into the Madison County Jail on Monday and released
on $10,000 bond.
    The Athens Banner-Herald reports that Burns says Carr resigned
from sheriffs office at the end of September, citing personal
problems. He says that after Carr left, investigators discovered
that evidence from Carrs cases was missing.
    Burns would not say what kind of evidence Carr is suspected of
taking.
   
GIRL IN LANDFILL
    Sheriff: Suspect fighting extradition
   
    MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) - Lauderdale County Sheriff Billie Sollie
says a man wanted for questioning in the death of a seven-year-old
Florida girl whose body was found in a south Georgia landfill is
fighting extradition from Mississippi.
    Jarred Mitchell Harrell was arrested Thursday in Meridian. He
faces 29 counts of possession of child pornography in Florida. He
was being held on $1 million bond.
    He's been named a "person of interest" in the October 2009
death of Somer Thompson of Orange Park, Florida. Harrell has not
been charged in her death.
    Sollie told The Meridian Star that officials in Florida will
have to file documentation so a governor's warrant for Harrell's
arrest can be issued. At that point, Sollie said Harrell will be
returned to Florida to face the charges.
   
KLAN RALLY
    KKK plans rally in Nahunta, GA
    
    NAHUNTA, GA (AP) - A Ku Klux Klan rally is planned for this
small southeast Georgia city, and the mayor is urging people to go
about their business.
    The Knight Riders of the Ku Klux Klan has a permit for a rally
in Nahunta, about 35 miles east of Brunswick in Brantley County,
from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday.
    City officials say the Klan group says it will focus its rally
on illegal immigration and sex offenders.
    City clerk Angela Wirth told The Associated Press the Klan
organization's grand dragon says he's expecting a turnout of about
100. She says she's expecting the Klan to make its presentation and
leave.
    Wirth says that until now there has never been a Klan rally in
the city.
   
GEORGIA WALMART STABBING
    Man jailed after wife killed outside Walmart
   
    SUWANEE, GA (AP) - Police in Suwanee say a man accused of
stabbing his estranged wife to death during a custody swap in a
Walmart parking lot has been charged with murder.
    Captain Cass Mooney, a Suwanee police spokesman, says
28-year-old Phillip Chad Dunn, who police say stabbed himself when
he attacked his 27-year-old wife, Shelley Dyan Dunn, on Sunday, has
been released from a hospital. He was taken to the Gwinnett County
Jail.
    Mooney says Dunn is charged with malice murder and felony
murder.
    The couple's daughters, ages six and eight, were present when
the stabbings took place. Mooney says it's not clear whether they
witnessed the attack.
    The district attorney's office and Superior Court were closed on
Monday, and it could not be determined if a court hearing had been
set.
   
TEACHER KILLED
    Man charged in GA teacher's death
   
    STOCKBRIDGE, GA (AP) - Police say a 35-year-old Snellville man
is being held at the Henry County jail on a murder charge in the
death of his girlfriend, a second-grade teacher.
    Henry County Police Captain Jason Bolton says 34-year-old Kinaya
Schenese Byrd was stabbed Friday during a quarrel at her home in
Stockbridge.
    Bolton says 35-year-old Dana McFarlane was driving in Rockdale
County when he flagged down a sheriff's lieutenant and turned
himself in.
    Byrd taught at River's Edge Elementary School in Clayton County.
   
WINTER WEATHER-SCHOOLS
    Gwinnett County, GA schools hold Monday classes
   
    LAWRENCEVILLE, GA (AP) - Despite the scheduled holiday, schools
in Gwinnett County were open on Monday.
    The forecast called for the threat of possible snow mixed with
the morning rain. But Friday's snow has melted from the highways,
and the district held classes on Presidents Day as a make-up day
for snow days earlier this winter.
    Many other districts around the state were closed for the
holiday. Schools in Fannin and Union counties were scheduled to be
open, but were closed Monday because icy weather in north Georgia.
    Numerous private schools also closed.

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