1. Temperatures are expected to reach the triple digits this weekend, and the Cherokee County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management as well as the Ready Georgia campaign want to remind people of steps to survive the heat.
2. Daniel Baxter, a 27-year-old Ball Ground man who was arrested Wednesday in connection with the sexual assaults of two children under the age of five, is in the Cherokee County Detention Center without bond, said Lt. Jay Baker, spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office.
3. Local Republicans weighed in Thursday on the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision to uphold a key provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The requirement for nearly all Americans to secure health insurance is permissible, the Court ruled.
4. Watch Kyla Cromer and Kelly Marlow, the candidates for Cherokee County Board of Education Post 1, discuss the issues at this week's Cherokee County Republican Party debate.
5. There was another conviction this week in a case involving a former Canton resident and two other top officials of the failed FirstCity Bank of Stockbridge. Clayton A. Coe, 45, of McDonough, pleaded guilty June 26 "to bank fraud in connection with an $800,000 loan that he tricked FirstCity Bank’s Board of Directors into approving and from which he personally profited. He also pleaded guilty to filing a false federal income tax return with the IRS that omitted nearly a half million dollars of income from his job at the bank," United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a news release. Sentencing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Sept. 18 before United States District Judge Steve C. Jones. In October, former Canton resident Mark A. Conner pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and perjury in connection with a personal bankruptcy filing earlier this year. His sentencing, which was originally scheduled for Jan. 31, has been pushed to July 12.
- Former Bank President Indicted in Multimillion-Dollar Fraud Conspiracy.
- New Indictment for FirstCity Bank.
- FirstCity Bank Pres. Enters Guilty Pleas.
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