Teacher Indicted | Solar Eclipse School Changes | Teavana Closing | New Weekend Movies: News Nearby

There was plenty of news across Georgia on Friday. If you missed any of it on your local Patch, here’s a roundup of some of the top stories from the past 24 hours.

• Solar Eclipse: Cartersville To Extend School Day
• Movies Out This Weekend: 'Atomic Blonde,' 'Detroit,' 'Brigsby Bear, 'An Inconvenient Sequel,' 'The Emoji Movie'
• Motorist Ejected In Rollover Crash In Cartersville

Small Businesses Missing Georgia Sales-Tax Holiday
In Georgia, this weekend will come and go without a sales-tax holiday — a late July break on clothing, computers and school supplies that had become something of an annual tradition in the state. For retailers, especially small, independently owned stores, that news is as bad, if not worse than, it is for Peach State consumers.

Johns Creek Named 4th Safest City In America

Alarms.org, the official site of the National Council for Home Safety and Security, named Johns Creek to the Top 100 Safest Cities in America list, which was released this week.

Ex-Gwinnett Teacher Indicted On 21 Sex, Molestation Charges

A former Gwinnett County high school band director has been indicted on charges that he repeatedly sexually assaulted four of his students. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Villie Jones, the former band director at South Gwinnett High School, has been indicted on 20 charges of sexual assault and one charge of child molestation.

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• Woman Dies From Injuries In Crash; Driver Charged With Homicide
• Starbucks To Close Teavana Store At North Point Mall
• Solar Eclipse Festival Planned In DeKalb
• Man Robbed At ATM; Overdose Victims Revived With Narcan: Blotter

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