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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

A Piece of 9/11 History Now in Gwinnett

Suwanee received remnant of World Trade Center last week and awaits a permanent site in the city.

Almost 10 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, a piece of the destroyed World Trade Center towers has made its way to Suwanee. The journey for the 1,600-pound piece of steel began about a year ago when the Port Authority of New York contacted various municipalities in the U.S. about their interest in remnants from the attacks. Suwanee responded. It was being done in connection with the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The final step came this week, when the artifact left a JFK airport hangar in Jamaica, N.Y., on Tuesday and arrived at a UPS shipping center in the Sugarloaf area Thursday morning. UPS worked the final leg to Suwanee public works headquarters off Buford Highway. Suwanee officials only were responsible for the $1…

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Police Release 911 Tape Reporting Duluth Shooting

Woman shot, killed intruder who confronted her with knife in her home as she exited shower.

Gwinnett Police have released a recording of the 911 call made by a Duluth woman after she shot the knife-wielding intruder who attacked her at home last Wednesday (May 11). Her assailant, identified by police as Israel Perez Puentes, 34, of Alpharetta, died later from the gunshot wounds. The incident occurred about 6:30 a.m. when Punetes entered the home in the 2800 block of East Mount Tabor Circle in unincorporated Duluth, as the resident, a 53-year-old woman, was coming out of the shower, according to a Gwinnett Police spokesman. "She was exiting the shower when the man wielding a [kitchen] knife entered her bathroom," said Gwinnett Police spokesman Cpl. Edwin Ritter. The woman tried to fight off the man with the shower rod after she …

Solid Citizen

8:30 am on Wednesday, July 27, 2011

It's good she lives in Duluth. New York,Maryland, and New Jersey take extraordinary measures to deny their citizens the right to self defense. he certainly prevented this evil incarnate from perpetrating more crimes When seconds count, the police are minutes away. . Below is a story about an unarmed woman…. Yvette Beakes, a Glen Burnie resident, was abducted and murdered in 2001. A witness to the…   more ›

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