*Colin Gray, who was convicted by a Hall County jury earlier this year, is now scheduled to be sentenced this summer. Gray, the father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect, is due in court July 28 and 29 for a sentencing hearing. He was found guilty on 27 counts, including second-degree murder and faces a sentence of up to 180 years for furnishing his son, Colt Gray, with the gun used in the shooting.
*For the first time since early last year, a case of bird flu has been detected in Georgia. The state Agriculture Department Friday confirmed a positive case of virus in a non-commercial, backyard (non-poultry) flock in west central Georgia’s Pierce County. The affected flock—comprised of approximately 60 chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys—has been destroyed as part of standard response protocols to prevent further spread of the highly contagious disease which poses a threat to the state’s $28 billion poultry industry.
*Lanier Tech Radiologic Technology Student Asa Walden has been selected to represent the Georgia in the American Society of Radiologic Technologists’ Student to Leadership Development Program. Walden is one of three students selected in the state and the first participant ever selected from Lanier Tech.
*Police search a Cumming Home Depot Friday night for a man they say ran from a nearby traffic stop and reportedly ran into the Market Place Boulevard store. Shoppers were briefly kept outside as officers combed the store for him. All the while, authorities said they didn’t believe he posed a threat to anyone.