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Rabid Coyote Attacks Runner In Roswell

A Roswell man is now undergoing treatment after a rabid coyote attacked him last week in a neighborhood.
According to the Roswell Police Department, the man was running in the area of Plantation and Lake Charles drives and was approached by the coyote from behind. The animal bit the runner on his lower leg and in turn, the man said he grabbed the coyote and held him down as neighbors called 9-1-1.>>>Read more.

KKK Fails To Show At Douglasville Rally On Sunday
The Ku Klux Klan was a no-show at its own rally Sunday in Douglasville. Members of a Mississippi KKK group had planned to gather at the Douglas County Courthouse to protest the prison sentences handed recently to two Confederate flag supporters who harassed minorities, brandished weapons and shouted racial slurs and death threats at a child's birthday party. But they never showed up.>>>Read more.

Joe Rogers Sr., Co-Founder of Waffle House, Dead at 97

Joe Rogers Sr., 97, the co-founder of Waffle House, has died, Patch has learned. Rogers took the eatery from its humble roots, beginning as a small diner in 1955 in Avondale Estates, to one of the largest 24-hour restaurants in the United States. Rogers, along with co-founder Tom Forkner, opened the novel-at-the-time concept -- combining the speed of fast food with the service of a dine-in restaurant. The eatery quickly became a regional hit and a cultural force in the South when it started franchising in the late 1960s. The restaurant also brought "smothered and covered" into the national lexicon.>>>Read more.

Watch: This Is The First-Ever Goal For Atlanta United Soccer Club

The shot boomed like a Civil War cannon. Like Hammerin' Hank on that fateful night in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. Like Dave Justice's homer in the '95 World Series. That was what it was like when Atlanta United scored the city's first goal in its inaugural game Sunday.>>>Read more.

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