RINGGOLD, Ga.
Self-defense class offered
A women’s self-defense course will be taught beginning Monday at Jessie Thornton’s United Karate Studio at 61 Tennessee St., Ringgold, Ga.
The cost is $99 for eight weeks of classes, which will be held at 7 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. A karate uniform is included in the cost.
Class members will learn basic kicks and karate techniques, how to break a choke hold and how to defend oneself from an attacker. For information or to register, 706-965-8148.
FORT PAYNE, Ala.
Man caught in vacant house
A DeKalb County, Ala., man was charged with burglarizing a home on County Road 81 after investigators caught him inside this week, according to a news release.
Sheriff Jimmy Harris said his department received a complaint that someone was using the vacant home at various times. Deputies and Fort Payne police officers began watching the house and discovered someone inside.
Investigators also found someone had damaged the home’s power meter to hide power usage.
Todd Thomas Stone, 27, of Fort Payne, was charged with burglary and given a $7,500 bond, the release stated.
Mapco robbery suspect caught
Claude D. Campbell, 37, of Collinsville, Ala., was arrested Wednesday in connection with a robbery at the Mapco gas station on State Highway 68 near Interstate 59.
According to Sheriff Jimmy Harris, a man wearing a disguise came into the store and told the clerk to fill up a bag with money.
The robber left with cash and cigarettes, but a customer followed him. Collinsville police and other officers were led by a tracking dog to a house where they arrested Campbell, the sheriff said.
Campbell was taken to the DeKalb County Detention Center where he is being held on $30,000 bond.
COLUMBUS, Ga.
Marine from Griffin killed
A Georgia family is mourning a Marine killed by an improvised bomb in Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense said Lance Cpl. Raymon Johnson of Columbus was killed Wednesday in Helmand province. The 22-year-old was assigned to 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division.
He had been a Marine for three years.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Trust seeks battlefields
The Civil War Preservation Trust is accepting nominations through its website for an annual report on endangered Civil War battlefields.
Any Civil War battlefield is eligible to for nomination and consideration and sites will be selected based on location, military significance and the immediacy of threats.
Nomination forms are available at www.civilwar.org/endangerednomination but must be submitted by Nov. 1.
The 2011 endangered battlefields report will be released next spring.