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On Sunday, the United States Marshals Service announced it has caught an international fugitive and child sexual predator from Gwinnett County who had been on the lam for nearly five years.

U.S. Marshals teamed up Mexican authorities to arrest Brad A. Hatter of Gwinnett on Dec. 3. Hatter was sent back to Georgia on Dec. 4 and placed into detention where officials with the U.S. Marshals Service said he remains.

In December 2005 in Gwinnett, Hatter, 58, was arrested for attempting to meet a 9-year-old girl for sexual activity. Officials said Hatter organized the encounter online and then went to the planned rendezvous location, where he was apprehended.

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Anthony Herro and Benjamin DuBose from the Herro Law Firm teach us about how you can be protected against uninsured motorists; Barack Obama was back in Georgia; And GGC men’s soccer fell at the NAIA Final site. 

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A Gwinnett County Public Schools bus was involved in a collision that caused it to flip onto its side Thursday morning, but Gwinnett police and GCPS officials said no serious injuries were reported.

The accident happened around 6:30 a.m. on Buford Highway near Sudderth Rd. in Sugar Hill, GCPS officials said, and involved a bus carrying special needs students to Lanier High School. 

Malfunctioning equipment sparked a fire that spread to a pipe in a corn mill and refinery at Olé Mexican Foods Inc.'s facility in unincorporated Norcross on Thursday morning, according to Gwinnett County fire officials.

Capt. Ryan McGiboney said firefighters were sent to the facility located at 6485 block of Crescent Drive at 8:04 a.m. after a fire alarm activated at the property. An employee also called 9-1-1 to report that smoke was coming from the sixth floor of the mill and that people were being evacuated from the building.

There will be no “Snow Mountain” at Stone Mountain Park this year, the park announced Tuesday on its web site.

It will be the third year in a row that the popular attraction will not be held at the park. ‘Snow Mountain’ began at the park in 2008 but hasn’t taken place since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

The attraction included Avalanche Alley, a 400-foot hill built for family-sized tubes of up to eight people and racing lanes. There was also a play area where visitors could make snowmen and snow angels or have a snowball fight.

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A Gwinnett County Public Schools bus was involved in a collision that caused it to flip onto its side Thursday morning, but Gwinnett police and GCPS officials said no serious injuries were reported.

The accident happened around 6:30 a.m. on Buford Highway near Sudderth Rd. in Sugar Hill, GCPS officials said, and involved a bus carrying special needs students to Lanier High School. According to police, a vehicle failed to yield and pulled out in front of the bus, hitting it and causing it to flip on its side. All the students were cleared by EMS and then put on another bus and taken to school. Once the students got to school, in an abundance of caution, the decision was made to transport one student to the hospital because he had a contusion on his head.

Gwinnett County Public Schools is getting more than $5 million from the federal government to pay for improvements to off-campus broadband internet access for students, according to U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Warnock announced that his office worked with the Federal Communications Commission to get the funding for GCPS. Warnock's office also secured funding for similar off-campus broadband access improvements for students at Brighten Academy in Douglasville and The Museum School of Avondale Estates in Decatur.

The funding is coming through the FCC's Emergency connectivity Program. Of the three allocations that Warnock and his office secured, GCPS got the overwhelming majority of the funding. The district will receive $5.3 million in federal funding while Brighten Academy will receive $102,465 and The Museum School of Avondale Estates will receive $79,695.

Warnock's office said the funds will be used to provide students and school staff with laptop and tablet computers as well as WiFi hotspots, modems, routers and other broadband connectivity purchases. The resources are intended to help ensure students have equal opportunities to learn.

Warnock's office said he has been a champion of federal investments to expand broadband access in Georgia. He has filed legislation designed to encourage broadband development with a particular focus on rural areas by preventing certain grants from being treated as taxable income. His office also said he took FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to Jackson County to meet with students, parents and local officials and hear about their broadband needs and challenges, and has been advocating using the bipartisan infrastructure law's Affordable Connectivity Program to ensure affordable broadband is available to more Georgia residents.

It’s slime time, y’all.

The New York-based Sloomoo Institute, referred to as “a slime paradise” by The Washington Post, opened its first Southeastern location in Atlanta this fall in Buckhead. The Atlanta outpost, complete with its slime showers and slime lake, showcases a series of interactive experiences guaranteed to delight the senses.

In addition to the DIY bar, where visitors can make more than four million different slime creations with 40 colors, 150 charms and 60 scents, Sloomoo Institute offers dozens of slime vats for interactive play, “Lake Sloomoo,” which contains some 350 gallons of slime to walk on, a “Slime Wall,” soundscapes, scent exploration and immersive videos. Composer Pei Pei Chung, who wrote the music for Sloomoo’s Autonomous Senrory Meridian Response soundscapes (called “Synthesoothers”) is among the institute’s expert collaborators, which also includes artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (who developed Augmented Reality and interactive video installations, including the “Slimey Mirror”) and architect Demetrios Comodromos of Method Design.

Sloomoo Institute is open from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. During the holidays, the institute will be open seven days a week. The institute also features a retail space where visitors can take some slime home with them.

For more information in Sloomoo Institute Atlanta, visit www.sloomooinstitute.com.

Clients of a Duluth-based day center for people with dementia got some good news on Wednesday.

A fundraising effort to keep Peachtree Christian Health, which was on the verge of closing three weeks ago due to funding issues, open was successful. The day center will not close after all.

Peachtree Christian officials announced during a Facebook Live video that the center will remain open. The center had said it needed to raise at least $500,000 to avoid closing at the end of the year. It ended up surpassing that goal by nearly $100,000.

Peachtree Christian officials had previous said they wanted to raise the money needed to stay open by Thanksgiving Day, but a strong initial response convinced them to keep the campaign going for a few more days, until Tuesday.

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Gwinnett County Public Schools is getting more than $5 million from the federal government to pay for improvements to off-campus broadband internet access for students, according to U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Warnock announced that his office worked with the Federal Communications Commission to get the funding for GCPS. Warnock's office also secured funding for similar off-campus broadband access improvements for students at Brighten Academy in Douglasville and The Museum School of Avondale Estates in Decatur.

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Brookwood grad Nick Moore, who plays for the Baltimore Ravens, is the AFC’s leading vote-getter at long snapper for the Pro Bowl as of Monday.

The NFL announced voting totals of the leaders after the early stages of voting, which will continue at NFL dot Com and on team sites through December 15. Starting December 1, fans will be able to vote directly on Twitter by Tweeting the player’s first and last name, the player’s official Twitter handle or a hashtag including the player’s first and last name — along with #ProBowlVote. Full roster selections for the Pro Bowl are determined by the consensus votes of fans, players and coaches. Each group’s vote counts 1/3 toward choosing the players.

State Senate Democrats reelected their top leadership team Monday.

Senator Gloria Butler will return as Senate minority leader during the 2023-24 legislative term starting in January. The Senate Democratic Caucus also re-elected Senator Harold Jones of Augusta to serve as minority whip and Senator Elena Parent from Atlanta, to serve another term as caucus chair. The rest of the Democratic leadership team for the next two years will include Senator Sonya Halpern from Atlanta who will serve as caucus vice chair; Senator David Lucas of Macon, who was elected vice chair of fundraising and campaigns; and Sen. Nan Orrock, D-Atlanta, who will serve as caucus secretary.

The upcoming term will be Butler’s second as minority leader. She rose to the post at the beginning of last year after then-Minority Leader Steve Henson decided not to run for reelection in 2020.

Democrats gained a seat in the Georgia Senate in this month’s elections. During the next term, majority Republicans will hold 33 seats to 23 seats for the Democrats.

A trio of Wesleyan seniors recently settled their futures in college baseball.

Pitcher/third baseman Dominick Scalese signed with Tulane, outfielder Forrest Lietz committed to Birmingham-Southern and first baseman/outfielder Schley Gordy sign with Spartanburg Methodist.

Scalese hit .273 with five home runs, 19 RBIs, 23 runs and seven stolen bases last season for the Wolves’ state title team, in addition to going 3-2 with 36 strikeouts in 32 2/3 innings as a pitcher. Lietz hit .404 with six home runs, 39 RBIs, 11 doubles, 29 runs and 11 stolen bases, while Gordy hit .347 with five home runs, 11 doubles, 47 RBIs, 38 runs and 18 stolen bases.

Tulane is a division one baseball program in the American conference. Birmingham-Southern competes at the Division three level in the Southern Athletic Association; And Spartanburg Methodist is a member of the National Junior College Athletic Association, and has a strong tradition of sending players to finish their collegiate careers at division one baseball programs.

If Lawrenceville residents hear loud sirens or suddenly find roads closed around the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center on Saturday, chances are that they shouldn't worry that anything bad is happening.

They should plan ahead on having to deal with those issues and sounds, however.

The Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office announced on Monday that its Court Operations Division will conduct a multi-agency active shooter training exercise at GJAC from 8 until 9:30 a.m. on Saturday. The training will entail law enforcement doing everything that they would do if they were responding to a real active shooter incident at the courthouse. Even though the event will be a training exercise, the Sheriff's Office warned that drivers will still have to follow all traffic laws, such as yielding the right-of-way to emergency vehicles and reducing speed around emergency vehicles that have activated their lights and sirens. Officials pledged that any traffic delays are expected to be minimal.

Residents will still be able to call 9-1-1 in case criminal activity or emergencies are taking place.

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Learn more about Hollywood Skin Atlanta in Lawrenceville; Mill Creek will have am afternoon tilt in the playoff semifinals; And early voting started in Gwinnett. 

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A Buford woman died Sunday after her husband allegedly shot her before turning a gun on himself while a child was in the family's home, according to Gwinnett County police.

Cpl. William Wolfe said Michael and Desiree Marin, both 44, got into an argument Sunday morning at a home located at 2605 Ivy Stone Trail. Michael is accused of shooting his wife at about 10 a.m. and then shooting himself as a result of the argument.

"A school aged child was in the home at the time of the incident but was not physically harmed," Wolfe said.

The couple was taken to a hospital, but Desiree Marin died from her wounds. Michael Marin, however, was listed as being in critical condition Sunday afternoon.

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Senate candidate Herschel Walker is raising eyebrows over a tax break he received on his Texas home; GGC men’s soccer is headed to the NAIA finals; And Jack’s Christmas Tree Farm offers the chance to cut your own tree. 

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The weekend after Thanksgiving is traditionally full of holiday shopping, but with a U.S. Senate runoff election coming up, Gwinnett County voters have one more thing they can add to their lists of things to do this weekend: voting.

The Gwinnett County Board of Registrations and Elections voted Monday night to move the first day of advance in-person voting, also known as early voting, up one day so it will now begin this Saturday. The move came on the heels of court rulings which allow Georgia counties to begin early voting on Saturday, rather than Sunday.

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