A man accused of pistol-whipping his girlfriend will serve 2 years in prison, prosecutors announced.
Jean Pharel Pierre of North Miami, Florida, was found guilty by a jury of simple battery, aggravated assault and aggravated battery. Pierre had pleaded not guilty. Cobb Superior Court Judge Robert Leonard sentenced Pierre last week to 2 years in prison, to be followed by 8 years probation.
According to prosecutors, on March 10, 2021, Pierre and his girlfriend who he lived with in Marietta were out running errands. They stopped to eat dinner and have a glass of wine. After returning home, Pierre kept drinking while his girlfriend got ready for bed.
The couple got into an argument, and Pierre pointed a gun at his girlfriend. He then hit her over the head three times with the gun, leaving a deep wound in the skull. Pierre’s girlfriend called the police, who arrested Pierre.
A jury found a Marietta man guilty of child molestation, aggravated child molestation and rape last week, prosecutors announced.
Marco Flores, also known as Marco Bucio is accused by prosecutors of raping and molesting a 7-year-old child.
The case stemmed from allegations made in May 2020, when the child told her mother and grandmother that Flores molested her, prosecutors said. The girl’s mother immediately called 911, and the Cobb County Police Department’s Special Victims Unit investigated.
In a forensic interview, the girl told investigators that the abuse had gone on for as long as two years, prosecutors said. Flores was subsequently arrested and indicted. During the trial, Flores pleaded not guilty. The girl, now 10, testified, along with her mother and grandmother, prosecutors said. The jury found Flores guilty on all counts.
Sonia Toson, an associate professor of law at Kennesaw State University, has been named the school's chief diversity officer.
Toson, who was the interim chief diversity officer since August 2021, will begin in the position Feb. 15. Prior to being named to the interim position, she was the director of diversity relations in KSU's Michael J. Coles College of Business.
On top of her $149,500 faculty salary, Toson will receive a $50,500 administrative stipend as CDO. Toson will report directly to KSU President Kathy "Kat" Schwaig as a member of the President’s Cabinet and will be responsible for providing vision, leadership and strategic direction for KSU’s Division of Diverse and Inclusive Excellence, according to the university. Her responsibilities in the role will include developing a long-term diversity and inclusion plan for KSU and establishing measurable benchmarks to broaden perspectives around diversity and inclusion at the university.
Wheeler alum Jaylen Brown was the first guard on the outside when it came to All-Star starter, but there was no denying the Celtics guard a spot in the All-Star game.
Brown is now officially an All-Star for the second time in three seasons as the league announced the reserves Thursday.
Brown’s enjoying a career season coming off the Celtics’ NBA Finals run, where he proved he can be a top scoring option for a contender. That momentum has carried over into this season as Brown’s averaging a career-best 27.0 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. The NBA All-Star game will be February 19th in Utah. In a different twist this season, the captain of each All-Star squad will select their respective teams just hours before the game during a draft. The draft format isn’t anything new, but captains selected their teams days in advance, but now it’ll be the day-of to add a fun wrinkle to the festivities.
Mayor Tommy Allegood takes a lot of pride in the Lake City.
In his State of the City address Thursday at the Acworth Business Association luncheon, Allegood named four categories — community leadership, quality of life, reputation, and inclusiveness — that make it easy for the city’s residents to take pride in saying: “Acworth is home.”
For Allegood, great leadership, from elected officials to dedicated city employees, is the catalyst for the other three aspects.
Allegood said quality of life in Acworth is twofold. It accounts for both the quality of life of its residents, as well as that of the businesses that call it home.
He added that Acworth’s elected officials have prioritized improving quality of life going on two decades, and it remains at the top of their list of priorities.
In the next year, Allegood said, further enhancements to the quality of life in Acworth will come from different developments and projects that start to break ground.
As the MDJ previously reported, one of these projects will be The Logan, a 16-acre, mixed-use development just outside of the city’s downtown. The Logan will include a medical office and new housing. Mayor Allegood also noted the city prides itself on diversity, with nearly half of its demographic makeup accounted for by minority groups. That includes a Black community that makes up 27% of the city’s population.
Jace Arnold will get the chance to find out if the old adage about New York City is true.
If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
For at least one day, the former Marietta defensive back made it in downtown Manhattan. His photo, along with those of other signees from Wisconsin's 2023 recruiting class, was broadcast on a digital billboard at the corner of 7th Avenue and West 41st Street, just steps from the center of Times Square. Nineteen players who transferred into the Wisconsin program or signed their national letters of intent during the December signing period had their image broadcast on the billboard during a 15-minute video block Wednesday. The time was purchased by The Varsity Collective, a name, image and likeness collective on behalf of Wisconsin athletes.
It was the first endeavor designed to help the newly signed players make the most of potential NIL opportunities. The collective also said it is to help the players use their status as college athletes to bring about positive change in their community and the causes they deem meaningful. Next week, a billboard celebrating Arnold's signing with Wisconsin will be put up at the corner of Cobb Parkway and North Marietta Parkway, and it is expected to be up for approximately a week. The billboard is part of a plan by the collective to show the success of Wisconsin's recruiting success in such states as Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and others.
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