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News Nearby: Drunk Boating Law, Two Children Sexually Assaulted

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- Suwanee Patch

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, in his first statement on the recent fatal boating collision on Lake Lanier, said Thursday that he wants tighter rules on boating under the influence.

The noted Political Insider blog in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the governor said, “The current blood alcohol limit of .10 for boating and hunting is far too high. As a state, we need to have one level across the board.

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- Canton-Sixes Patch

A 27-year-old Ball Ground man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the sexual assaults of two children under the age of five.

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Daniel Baxter is in the  without bond, charged with one count of rape, two counts of aggravated child molestation, two counts of aggravated sodomy and two counts of sexual battery, said Lt. Jay Baker, spokesman for the .

- Sandy Springs Patch

A former Fulton County Deputy Sheriff who accepted bribes of more than $2,000 to distribute cocaine inside and outside the Fulton County Jail was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in federal prison, said an announcement by United States Attorney Sally Quillian Yates of the Northern District of Georgia. 

Marvie Trevino Dingle, Jr., 36, of Lithonia had previously pleaded guilty on November 8, 2011, to attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine and to accepting bribes to facilitate cocaine distribution.

- Acworth Patch

A Marietta novelist who pleaded guilty in February of defrauding a woman he had dated and another couple in a phony lawsuit has been sentenced to serve more than 12 years in prison. 

Mitchell Gross of Marietta, 61, will serve 12 years and seven months, then another three years on supervised release, and has been ordered to pay $5.8 million in restitution to his victims, according to a ruling Thursday from U.S. District Judge Julie Carnes in Atlanta.

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