Dog Feces, Toilet Paper Used For School Prank | Patch PM

A first-day-of school prank left a metro area mother's property littered with toilet paper, shaving cream, dog feces and paper plates with degrading messages about her daughter. Meanwhile, an orangutan who spoke sign language has died at Zoo Atlanta, a police standoff ended with the gunman dead and his baby daughter in critical condition and a gunman charged with shooting an off-duty police officer in Atlanta is still at large. Here are the top local news stories worth reading and talking about on Tuesday, August 8, as pulled from our Georgia Patch sites.

'Senior Queens' Pull First-Day-Of-School Prank With Dog Feces, Toilet Paper

A first-day-of school prank left a Bartow County mother's property littered with toilet paper, shaving cream, dog feces and paper plates with degrading messages about her daughter. The woman's home on Miltons Walk SE was the site of the prank, which she believed occurred sometime between Aug. 1 and Aug. 2.

Chantek, Sign-Language Using Orangutan At Zoo Atlanta, Dies

Chantek, an orangutan who was raised like a human and learned to speak sign language, has died at Zoo Atlanta. He was 39. Chantek died at the zoo on Monday, officials there said. While his official cause of death was not immediately known, he had been treated by the zoo's veterinary team for progressive heart disease. At 39, Chantek was one of the oldest living male orangutans in North America.

Man Dead, Baby Hospitalized After Forsyth SWAT Standoff

A Forsyth County man killed himself and a baby girl was rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds during a standoff with law enforcement officers Monday evening. Deputies were called to the home, on Carleen Way in the Bluff Heights subdivision, Monday afternoon by a woman who said her husband had threatened to shoot her and their young child with a handgun.

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