News Nearby: Armed Robber Hugs It Out; APD Officer Charged for Car Accident

Armed Robber Hugs It Out Near Tech Square

According to the Atlanta police, an apologetic armed robber victimized a female construction worker early Wednesday morning in yet anothercrime on or near the Georgia Tech campus.

The woman reported that she was walking along Williams and 8th streets on her way to the Georgia Tech basketball coliseum construction site when she was approached from behind by a male. After taking her cell phone and $60 in cash, the suspect gave her “three hugs” and “continued to apologize” before fleeing on foot.

Read more on Midtown Patch. 

APD Officer Charged for Car Accident That Killed Atlanta Woman

According to CBS and APD reports, Joshua Sieck has been charged with 2nd degree vehicular homicide because of his patrol car running into Jacqueline Culp's BMW and causing her death.

CBS Atlanta is reporting that, "Joshua Sieck was running an emergency call when the crash happened just before 5 p.m. on July 21."

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Group Renews Call for Cherokee Schools to End Graduations at Church

Now that a federal appeals court has ruled thattwo Wisconsin high schools violated the U.S. Constitution when they held graduations in a church, a group that threatened to sue the  for doing the same thing said local officials "must stop this anti-liberty and repressive practice."

, the president of the North Metro Atlanta Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said Wednesday that he, along with the leaders of Georgia's two other AU affiliates, "unequivocally renew the call to stop the inappropriate use of religious venues for public school graduations.

Read more on Canton-Sixes Patch. 

Metro Atlanta Residents Buying More Guns

Gun stores across metro Atlanta and the nation are seeing an uptick in gun sales after the movie-theater shootings in Colorado, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Glacier Girl Rescue 20 Years Later

n 1992, Pat Epps of the Epps Aviation group at was part of a daring, chilly expedition to Greenland with the mission of recovering a Lockheed P-38 plane, now known as Glacier Girl, that had been marooned in the far north since 1942. The plane was part of the largest single forced landing of military aircraft, scattering eight planes across the ice in Greenland, and the journey to recover it can be read about here. It's fascinating.

After salvaging the plane's parts from a hole melted more than 250 feet down in the ice, providing those involved in the recovery the surreal chance to be inside a glacier, Epps and the Greenland Expedition Society brought the parts back to America and began a 10-year restoration process on the aircraft.

Read more on Brookhaven Patch.