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Man faces child
cruelty charges
AUGUSTA (MNS) - An
Augusta man remained in
jail Wednesday after police
charged him with child cru
elty in connection with a
case of shaken baby syn
drome.
Derrick Coleman, 22, was
charged with first-degree
felony child cruelty, said
Richmond County sher
iffs Investigator Bonnie
Kalbskopf. On Monday
afternoon, deputies were dis
patched to Medical College
of Georgia Hospital after
hospital workers observed
injuries to Coleman’s 2-
month-old daughter, Deriona
Washington.
During an investigation,
Coleman told police the child
fell off a bed. He later said
that while holding the child,
he fell and the child hit her
head on a dresser. He finally
changed his story and told
Investigator Kalbskopf he
tried to “shake her awake”
when he noticed that the
child was unconscious.
An MCG physician diag
nosed the child as having a
fractured skull and retinal
hemorrhaging, Investigator
Kalbskopf said.
“Her injuries are serious
but she’s stable. Anytime
you have a fractured skull
and bleeding around the
eyes and brain, it’s serious,”
the investigator said.
Thechild’smother, 19-year
old Lateisha Washington
was working at a restaurant
on Laney-Walker Boulevard
when the incident happened,
Investigator Kalbskopf said.
All three individuals live at
the same address, she said.
Ms. Washington has
another child who lives at a
different residence.
Deriona is the couple’s
only child, police said.
Investigator Kalbskopf
said after Coleman informed
Ms. Washington about the
accident that she came home
and called 911.
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Brunswick 91 77 t-storm
Cartersville 89 70 t-storm
Chattanooga,TN 85 68 t-storm
Columbus 91 74 t-storm
Cordele 91 74 t-storm
National Cities
Atlanta 88 71 t-storm
Boston 73 61 mst sunny
Chicago 77 62 pt sunny
Dallas 104 82 mst sunny
Denver 90 65 mst sunny
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Floyd Co. girl dies
after falling Into pit
LINDALE, (AP) - A 2-
year-old girl has died from
injuries received when she
fell into a pit and was sub
merged under water.
Candace Jackson was
pronounced dead Tuesday
afternoon at a hospital,
Floyd County Coroner Barry
Henderson said.
The girl’s death will be
ruled accidental because of
the child being immersed in
the water for a long period of
time, Henderson said.
The child was airlifted to
Erlanger Medical Center
in Chattanooga, Tenn., on
Saturday after her family
members pulled her out of
the pit near her home.
The girl had stopped
breathing while in the pit
and started breathing again
while being treated at Floyd
Medical Center, police
reported. Floyd County
Police Sgt. Teri Davis said
the girl was playing with a
1-year-old sibling when they
wandered to the pit, which
had been excavated near
Pepperell High School.
A plastic mesh fence now
surrounds the pit where the
accident occurred.
State revenues
continue to grow
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia
got off to a good start in the
new fiscal year, as state offi
cials reported Tuesday soar
ing tax receipts in July.
Tax revenues in July rose
by 13.5 percent over the
same period a year ago to
$1.24 billion, according to
state money managers.
The growth in July, the
first month in the new fiscal
year, was driven in large part
by a strong surge ia income
tax collections that totaled
more than $95 million.
The strong economic
showing comes a month
after Gov. Sonny Perdue
announced soaring revenues
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Dalton 92 71 t-storm
Dillard 86 65 t-storm
Dublin 93 71 t-storm
Duluth 88 69 t-storm
Gainesville 88 72 t-storm
Helen 89 68 t-storm
Lagrange 89 70 t-storm
Macon 91 73 t-storm
Marietta 88 70 t-storm
Milledgeville 91 73 t-storm
Houston 93 75 t-storm
Los Angeles 82 67 pt sunny
Miami 90 81 t-storm
Minneapolis 84 67 t-storm
New York 82 64 pt sunny
left Georgia with a better
than-expected surplus of
SSBO million.
Perdue said he will funnel
$173 million of the surplus
into education and use the
rest of the funds to restock
the state’s reserve fund.
Perdue, a Republican,
is vying for re-election in
November against Lt. Gov.
Mark Taylor.
Regents to request
additional SBOM
ATLANTA (AP) - The
state Board of Regents will
ask the state for an addi
tional SBO million next fiscal
year, a 5 percent increase
in the university system’s
budget.
The funding recommen
dation is in line with Gov.
Sonny Perdue’s request that
no state agencies ask for sup
plemental funding outside
what their budget formulas
require. The Regents adopt
ed the recommendations
during their monthly meet
ing Tuesday in Atlanta.
If approved by lawmak
ers, the state funding for
the university system next
year will just top $2 billion,
the most ever requested
from the state. The system’s
entire budget is $5 billion
with tuition, private funding
and research dollars.
Chancellor Erroll B. Davis
Jr. said although this is the
most ever requested from
the state, it is the bare mini
mum required to run the 35-
campus system. Campuses
must look for ways to trim
inefficient spending and pur
sue alternative sources of
funding like research grants
and entrepreneurial oppor
tunities, he said.
“The budget may seem
bland,” he said. “That is not
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Savannah 91 74 t-storm
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Statesboro 93 76 t-storm
Thomasville 90 74 t-storm
Valdosta 90 73 t-storm
Warner Robins 91 73 t-storm
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San Francisco 73 56 mst sunny
Seattle 72 54 rain
St. Louis 87 69 t-storm
Washington, DC 83 65 pt sunny
to imply we are not going to
pursue other priorities.”
The extra money request
ed for next fiscal year, which
begins July 1, 2007, will pay
for enrollment increases, ris
ing benefit costs for employ
ees and a jump in utility
costs. An additional S3O mil
lion will go to pay for salary
increases for employees.
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Runoffs determine
November slates
By VICKY ECKENRODE
and BRANDON
LARRABEE
Morris News Service
ATLANTA - The front
runners from the July pri
maries going into Tuesday’s
four statewide runoffs won
outright.
Democrats picked their
nominee for lieutenant gov
ernor and secretary of state,
while Republicans selected
standard bearers for secre
tary of state and agriculture
commissioner.
Runoffs were required in
races with multiple candi
dates where no one came
away more than 50 percent
of the vote last month.
In Tuesday’s results,
with 95 percent of precincts
reporting, former Rep. Jim
Martin of Atlanta beat for
mer Sen. Greg Hecht of
Jonesboro, 62 percent to 37
percent.
In a short victory speech,
Martin told supporters,
“Together we can reclaim
the Georgia of our aspira
tions, a wonderful place to
live, to work, to play, to wor
ship, to raise families and
to thrive - that comes as
sweet and clear as moonlight
through the pines.”
Hecht, for his part, talked
of party unity. Martin came
in first place three weeks ago
in the Democratic primary
for lieutenant governor, and
past runoffs are usually won
by the first-place finisher in
the initial contest.
Fulton County Commission
McKinney loses runoff
By ERRIN HAINES
Associated Press Writer
DECATUR - Cynthia
McKinney, the fiery Georgia
congresswoman known for
her conspiracy theories
about the Sept. 11 attacks
and the scuffle she had ear
lier this year with a U.S.
Capitol police officer, lost a
runoff election Tuesday for
her district’s Democratic
nomination. ,
Attorney Hank Johnson, a
former county commissioner,
soundly defeated McKinney
by more than 12,000 votes,
winning 59 percent of the
total vote. More than 70,000
votes were cast - 9,000 more
than in the primary three
weeks ago.
Johnson, a political
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2006
Chairwoman Karen Handel
beat out Sen. Bill Stephens
of Canton for the Republican
nominee in the secretary of
state race. Handel had 56
percent of the vote, com
pared to Stephens with 43
percent.
“A lot of people in the
beginning said that Karen
Handel was nothing more
than a metro Atlanta can
didate, but the numbers are
going to show to the con
trary,” she said.
Stephens said he would
.throw his support behind
Handel leading to the
November election.
The winner will face Rep.
Gail Buckner, who won the
Democratic nomination for
secretary of state, in the
November general election.
Buckner took top honors
in the six-person voting last
month, and with 95 percent
in Tuesday, she led with 55
percent to 44 percent for
Hicks. Asked what won it,
she replied, “definitely the
hands on experience I have
in government.”
Gary Black appeared to
easily win the Republican
nomination for state agricul
ture commissioner Tuesday.
With 95 percent of pre
cincts reporting, Black had
60 percent of the vote in the
primary runoff to challenger
Brian Kemp’s 40 percent.
Kemp, a state senator
from Athens, said he called
Black to concede defeat and
to offer his support in oust
ing Democrat Tommy Irvin,
a 37-year incumbent seeking
his final term in office.
unknown three weeks ago,
strode into the ballroom of
his campaign party to shouts
of, “Hank! Hank! Hank!”
“What we have done
today, ladies and gentlemen,
is something that has been
watched by the nation,”
Johnson told cheering sup
porters as he claimed vic
tory.
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