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Randolph police responded to 27 Petipas Lane on Monday night for a report of a shooting. Police identified the suspected gunman as 32-year-old Justin Gaston of Brockton and Randolph, who they say is on the run and considered "armed and dangerous."

Republican Congressman Buddy Carter who represents the Georgia coast, was last week appointed to the bipartisan House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. In an interview Monday he discussed how his views on climate have evolved and stated he now acknowledges climate change is real, humans are contributing to it and that it's a crisis.

Do acclaimed, award-winning filmmakers always need to make highbrow cinema, or is it okay for them to sometimes have fun camping it up in the commercial realm? With "Greta," Neil Jordan, Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz might have just created a piece of modern grindhouse gold (or the goriest Lifetime movie ever, which is okay too).

During a three-stop tour of the city U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-East Moline, visited with elementary school students, toured a Rockford Housing Authority property, and baked pastries with the businesswomen at Bella Luna Bakery. 

Rockford Register Star's Scott P. Yates sits down in the bakery with Bustos for a conversation about her day in Rockford on Friday, March 1, 2019.

Read more: https://www.rrstar.com/news/20190301/bustos-bakes-at-bella-luna-bakery-during-cheri-on-shift-visit

Additional music: “75 & Lower” by DJ Williams / YouTube Audio Library.

OnlineAthens film critic Andrew Shearer was invited to speak to Betina Kaplan's Latin American Film Studies class at the University of Georgia on February 19th, 2019. With no journalism degree or formal training, Andrew details how he ended up covering film for the Banner-Herald over the past decade as well as his filmmaking adventures with local stars.

Ginger Young talks about Book Harvest's pioneering home visitation literacy program, the importance of parent engagement, and the things she's learned after giving away more than a million books in over the eight years since she started Book Harvest.

There are 11 area teams still dancing in the boys and girls basketball and hockey playoffs, and Brendan Kurie and Laurie Los break down all their quarterfinal matchups, while reviewing the first round of the MIAA Tournament.