Police in Elberton arrest the president of an Elbert County athletic booster club on theft charges: 43 year-old Jason Ray is accused of stealing upwards of $13,000 from booster club funds. Ray was booked into and has bonded out of the Elbert County Detention Center.
A man from Hart County was, at last report, hospitalized in critical condition in Macon: the GBI says he shot himself after a traffic stop near Milledgeville. Stuart Sinclair is 58 years old, from Royston. The GBI is investigating.
A Gainesville man is arrested and booked into the Hall County jail, charged in a string of burglaries in Gainesville: 21 year-old Roberto Chavez is accused of breaking into stores and stealing cash and cigarettes.
Two people suffered minor injuries in a Habersham County house fire: there were minor burns for a man and smoke inhalation for a woman who were among five people to make it out of the house that burned in southern Habersham County. There was no immediate word on the cause of the fire, which is being investigated by the state Fire Marshal's Office.