(GA. NEWS NETWORK)
*Flash flooding in Coffee County partially destroyed Old Coffee Road. Videos showed the road sunken on the shoulders and a full sinkhole that covered the width of the road on Friday morning. Water could be seen rushing underneath the roadway as the concrete split and became unattached. The Coffee County Sheriff’s Office says the road will be closed for the foreseeable future and requires major repairs.
*A Georgia man is out of prison after being wrongfully incarcerated for more than 20 years. The Georgia Innocence Project announced that newly discovered DNA evidence exonerates 41-year-old Marquez Powell and he has been released after the organization filed a motion for a new trial. Powell was charged in 2005 for killing his best friend, Shah Walton. He was convicted in 2008 when he was 23 years old under a party-to-the-crime theory, with prosecutors alleging he participated in a plan to rob Walton. The Innocence Project says the new evidence supports the theory that Powell was a witness and should have never been charged in the case.
*A search warrant alleges that a student was blackmailing a Douglasville teacher. 25-year-old Alexander High School teacher Maris Nichols allegedly had sex with the student twice. According to the warrant, obtained by Atlanta News First, the student also used knowledge that Nichols had an OnlyFans account to get better grades. The warrant also claims Nichols had sex with several students and sent from her phone inappropriate messages, pictures, and videos to other victims, who used this to also blackmail Nichols. The teacher was already facing several counts of child molestation, grooming a minor and sexual assault.