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Officials break ground on Henderson County jail addition

By Beth Smith It's been in the paperwork and planning stages for years. However, the first steps to actually constructing the roughly $2 million addition to the Henderson County Detention Center began Monday morning with crews moving dirt and preparing ground....

Boy’s attacker gets 30 years in prison

By Lauren Foreman A Marietta man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison without parole after pleading guilty to sodomizing a 12-year-old boy. Andres Perez Brito, 38, was renting a room in the victim’s Lassiter Road residence at the time of the June 2014 attack, said Kim...

Grandmother, 85, gets 7-week jail sentence after drunken driving crash

By John Turk, The Oakland Press An 85-year-old grandmother is sentenced to 75 days in jail after, officials say, she allegedly shirked probation conditions following a mid-afternoon drunken driving crash she was charged in. And as the senior citizen begins her jail term, her...

Ex-lawyer gets 40 years in prison in 'Gone Girl' kidnapping case

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A California woman who was drugged along with her boyfriend and then dragged from their home described the "hell that we have survived" in emotional testimony Thursday before her abductor was sentenced to 40 years in prison in a crime so...