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LEVI'S CALL | Police: Missing children found safe
Feb 22, 2012 at 10:53 AM

DECATUR, Ga. (WXIA) -- Police sources tell 11Alive News that two missing children have been found safe.

The children, 3-year-old Jalen Mattison and 1-year-old Amari Mattison, had been reported missing early Wednesday morning. Their mother, 24-year-old Ashley Mattison, said a man...more helping her when her car broke down on Interstate 20 near Wesley Chapel Road in DeKalb County had driven off with the children.

PHOTOS | Missing children from DeKalb County

Ashley Mattison said that as she made arrangements to have her Volvo towed, the suspect drove away with her children. Police said she did not know the suspect.

A detective source told 11Alive's Paul Crawley that Ashley Mattison had no fixed address, and had been living from hotel to hotel with the children.

A Levi's Call went out from authorities looking for the children, which led to a national alert for the man and his green Jeep Cherokee.

Authorities said around 1:30 p.m. that
decatur, Stone Mountain

PHOTOS | Missing children from DeKalb Co.
Feb 22, 2012 at 8:54 AM

Police said early Wednesday they were working on what they called an "active kidnapping" of two young children.

DeKalb Police said they are looking for 3-year-old Jalen Mattison and his sister, 1-year-old Amari Mattison. They were last seen with a black male, about 6 feet tall with a...more thin build in his 30s. He was last seen wearing a light brown or tan baseball cap. He was driving a 2000-to-2005 model hunter green Jeep Cherokee.

They were last seen on Wesley Chapel Road near I-20.
Stone Mountain

DEKALB CO. | Police working on 'active kidnapping' of two children
Feb 22, 2012 at 6:09 AM
Police said early Wednesday they were working on what they called an "active kidnapping" of two young children.

HEMY NEUMAN TRIAL | Andrea Sneiderman is first prosecution witness
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Feb 21, 2012 at 8:45 PM

DECATUR, Ga. (WXIA) - The first day of the Hemy Neuman trial is in the books, with widow Andrea Sneiderman the first witness called to the stand.

Sneiderman defiantly insisted there was no affair between she and the man accused of gunning down her husband in November...more 2010.

Sneiderman says though she and Neuman, her direct supervisor at GE Energy, traveled together on business, there was nothing to accusations of an affair between the two of them, though, she said, she was aware that he had feelings for her, and that he had expressed this to her during a Nevada business trip.

Police said Neuman shot Sneiderman's husband, Rusty Sneiderman, to death outside a Dunwoody day care center shortly after Rusty Sneiderman dropped off their young son on November 18, 2010.

Testimony resumes Wednesday morning at 9. 11Alive.com will continue live coverage. Televised coverage is on WIZ tv, our 24 hour weather channel -- which can be found at channel 11.2,
decatur, Dunwoody

ATLANTA WEATHER | Severe weather chances up Wed., Thu.
Feb 21, 2012 at 2:22 PM
11Alive Chief Meteorologist Mike Francis warns that the chance of severe weather in Metro Atlanta is up Wednesday and Thursday.

Publix Georgia Marathon & Half Marathon coming in March!
Feb 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM

ATLANTA (WXIA) - The 2012 edition of the Publix Georgia Marathon & Half Marathon kicks off Sunday, March 18, at 7 a.m. The race course will take some 18,000 runners through parts of Atlanta and Decatur, passing a number of Metro area landmarks.

The 26.2 mile course will pass through...more the Sweet Auburn District, Inman Park, Decatur, Druid Hills, Virginia Highland and Midtown. The events will include 19 hydration stations with water and Gatorade for runners.

The weekend will also feature the Cuties Luckie 5K and Kids Fun Run on Saturday, March 17. Saturday's races will kick off at 8 a.m. from Centennial Olympic Park, and run through the Luckie Marietta District in Downtown Atlanta.

Starting the weekend is the Publix Georgia Marathon Health & Fitness Expo, being held at the Georgia World Congress Center on Friday and Saturday, March 16 and 17.

Before March 14, fees for the Publix Georgia Marathon are $115, and $95 for the Half Marathon. Entries
Downtown, Druid Hills, Little 5 Points, Midtown, decatur, Inman Park, virginia-highland, Old Fourth Ward

MARIETTA | Author pleads guilty on federal wire fraud, money laundering charges
Feb 21, 2012 at 1:34 PM

ATLANTA (WXIA) -- Marietta science fiction author Mitchell Gross pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal wire fraud and money laundering charges.

According to a release from the US Attorney's office, Gross began a romantic relationship with a woman he met through an internet dating service...more - and claiming he was independantly wealthy and financially secure, convinced the woman to to wire nearly $3 million to an account controlled by Gross.

In a second scheme, the US Attorney said Gross befriended an unmarried couple and represented himself as "successful lawyer and entrepreneur." The release said Gross had been disbarred in 1991 for engaging in "dishonesty, fraud and deceit."

The release said Gross got the couple to pay about $2.2 million in "legal fees" to Gross over the course of 10 years in relation to a supposed lawsuit related to the couple's real estate business. According to the US Attorney, no such lawsuit existed, and the money they paid to Gross
marietta

Watch live coverage of the Hemy Neuman murder trial
Feb 20, 2012 at 4:19 PM
Hemy Neuman is accused of the murder of Rusty Sneiderman outside the Dunwoody Prep daycare in November 2010. 11Alive News is presenting live coverage of Neuman's murder trial.

Live coverage will stream on 11Alive.com, and will also air on WIZ tv, our 24-hour weather channel. Viewers can find WIZ tv over the air on channel 11.2, on Comcast channel 211 and Charter channel 84.

PHOTOS | Whitney Houston's home-going services
Feb 18, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Saturday's New Hope Baptist Church funeral service for Whitney Houston was more celebratory than somber, touching on the pop singer's flaws, but relishing her talent, beauty, compassion and love for others.

Brown leaves Houston's funeral services shortly after they started
Feb 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM
According to NBC News, Bobby Brown left the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, NJ, shortly after the beginning of the funeral service for singer Whitney Houston.

ATHENS | Study says states wtih comprehensive sex ed classes have lower teen pregnancy rates
Feb 17, 2012 at 4:18 PM

ATHENS, Ga. (WXIA) - A University of Georgia study says states that have abstinence-only sex education programs in their public schools have been found to have significantly teen pregnancy rates than states with more comprehensive programs.

The study, released this week by UGA and...more published online in the journal PLoS ONE, looked at teen pregnancy rates along with the influence of socioeconomic status, education level, ethnicity, access to Medicaid waivers and sex education methods in public schools.

"Our analysis adds to the overwhelming evidence indicating that abstinence-only education does not reduce teen pregnancy rates," said Kathrin Stanger-Hall, assistant professor of plant biology and biological sciences, in a release.

The study said that even with the factors cited, the correlation between sex education and teen pregnancy was very prominent. The study says states with the lowest teen pregnancy rates were those that prescribed comprehensive
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About Dr. Sherry Blake
Feb 16, 2012 at 5:47 PM
Dr. Sherry Blake's dream of helping people realize their true potential and achieve their life goals became a reality over 20 years ago.

ATLANTA WEATHER | Possible severe weather this weekend
Feb 16, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Partly sunny skies are expected over Metro Atlanta Friday, but there could be storms approaching this weekend.

Stacey English's death ruled 'hypothermia,' not result of foul play
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Feb 14, 2012 at 9:43 PM

ATLANTA (WXIA) -- The Fulton County Medical Examiner said Tuesday afternoon that autopsy results showed Stacey English's death was an accident.

Her mother had suspected that English had been the victim of foul play.

But the medical examiner's office said there was no...more evidence of injury or drug overdose. She had "underlying neurlogical and psychiatric disorders" complicated by her exposure to cold, according to the medical examiner's report.

"Because cold exposure is an external, environmental condition, the manner of death has been classified as accident."

English disappeared December 26th. Her decomposed body was found on January 23, near Lakewood Amphitheater -- several miles from her condo on Lenox Road in Buckhead. Her body was found less than a mile from where her Volvo had been found almost a month earlier, with its engine running.

Her father, Tony English, told 11Alive News Tuesday afternoon he was not ready to comment on
buckhead

Full text of President Obama's remarks on extending the payroll tax cut
Feb 14, 2012 at 10:57 AM
The White House has released President Obama's remarks on extending the payroll tax cut from Tuesday afternoon.