*A Dawsonville man authorities say may have been “impaired” was killed and an Oakwood man seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash in Lumpkin County Friday. The state patrol said Monday it happened on Castleberry Bridge Road. Killed was William Trey Lingerfelt, 22. Injured were the driver and a passenger in the other vehicle – Guadalupe Aguilar, 45, Oakwood and Hisham Abotaler, 53, Dawsonville. The accident happened when Lingerfelt’s pickup crossed the centerline and hit Aguilar’s head-on. Both suffered serious injuries. State troopers say when he was pulled from the wreckage, Lingerfelt had a can of electronics duster in one hand. “It is suspected that (he) was using the electronics duster as an inhalant and was impaired at the time of the crash,” their report reads.
*Calls for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas war echoed across downtown Cumming Sunday afternoon during a demonstration against the hostilities. Atlanta News First and the Georgia News Network report the demonstrators were part of a movement called “In Our Shoes.” The protestors, who included young children, held signs as they chanted for a ceasefire – and filled the courthouse lawn with shoes representing children killed in Gaza.