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Police have arrested Randolph Forde, a Mundy’s Mill High School teacher, for allegedly putting a “hit” on a student after an incident in which he asked the student if he was gay.

WSB-TV:

“‘[The student]’s attorney said the incident began when Forde called the student out of the classroom one day. ‘(Forde) asked him if he was gay,’ said attorney Terrance Madden. Madden said the student became angry at the suggestion and the next day the two had a verbal altercation. Weeks later, police said, Forde got a Mundy’s Mill student off a school bus and told him he had a hit on someone and needed him to take care of it. Officers said the student asked who it was and Forde said he would let him know. ‘The teacher held a piece of paper up with the victim’s name on it,’ said Otis Willis III of the Clayton County Police Department.”

Forde’s attorney’s response to the AJC:

“‘The allegation is he made a hit on him, but that was not what was said nor what was intended,’ Thomas said. ‘The student only complained after he was getting suspended.’ Forde asked the student about being gay after he saw the boy dancing inappropriately with another male student in class, Thomas said. ‘All of the students knew Mr. Forde was joking,’ Thomas said. ‘The other students said Mr. Forde always plays around with them like that.””

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Jonesburra po-leese chief Rosco P. Coltrane Brad Johnson done wore his dungarees to work.

Boss Hogg Mayor Luther Maddox got all angry like and done fired him fer it.

Now they’re feudin’!

Johnson reckons Maddox dudn’t have the ‘thority to fire him and has already hired Matlock a lawyer to help him get his job back.

Much of the dispute was captured on video.

Meanwhile, them Duke boys are getting away!

I’m wundrin if Brother Wheatley gots time to write him up a Clayton County sequel

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It’s a Tuesday night in early July in Jonesboro, and Clayton County Commission Chairman Eldrin Bell is still smarting from a weekend dalliance with a pistol.

Bell’s left thumb is wrapped in a cartoon-sized bandage, a reminder of yet another newsworthy moment that made people scratch their heads over the embattled county. Bell – a 33-year police officer and ordained minister who looks and acts decades younger than his 73 years – “burned his thumb” while attempting to fire a .50-caliber handgun at a Fourth of July party at the Butts County compound of strip-club impresario Jack Galardi.

Bell sits on the dais alongside his colleagues, his collar button undone, his red tie tugged loose, his tight, dark curls mussed. Stubble sprouts from his chin and his vivid blue eyes look haggard. It’s 8:30 and Bell’s night is long from over.

Read the rest of this article here.

(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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MOTHER’S DAY TORNADOES: Twenty-three people are killed nationally by an estimated 47 twisters from Oklahoma and Missouri to Georgia, making this year the worst so far for tornadoes since 1999. At least one person dies in Georgia as six tornadoes hit through midstate.

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE: A Valdosta Daily Times reporter, who was one of five media monitors of the execution of William Earl Lynd last week, writes of the experience.

THOMAS GOWN AFFAIR: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gives UGA’s commencement speech over the weekend, recalling how Georgia was still too segregated for him to attend UGA in the ’60s.

SCHOLARBLIND: The AP profiles the valedictorian of this year’s Morehouse graduating class, who’s white.

CORN IN THE USA: By July, the entire Southeast gasoline pipeline will be using E10, which is at least 8 percent ethanol.

CAN’T ARGUE WITH RESULTS: Jonesboro High School’s mock trial team wins its second consecutive national championship.

SHADY ROVE: MC Turd Blossom has a new gig as FOX News “pundit.”

CROWS TERRIFIED: Northeast Georgia town trying to break Guinness World Record for “Most Scarecrows in One Location,” with 4,000 scarecrows by Sept. 1. No one so far has had the heart to tell Hoschton that this will not, in fact, make the town a “household word.”

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