DALTON, Ga.
Man admits damaging vehicles
A 51-year-old man told police that Jesus told him to use a baseball bat to break the windshields on several Dalton police vehicles.
But guilt apparently got the best of David Morrissey, of Rome, Ga., and he approached two Dalton police officers outside the Dalton Police Services Center about midnight Monday, telling them he wanted to turn himself in, police said.
Morrissey told them he had broken the windshields in a back parking lot.
“He told us that Jesus told him to do it,” said Bruce Frazier, department spokesman.
Morrissey has been charged with interference with government property and criminal damage to property, police said.
The windshields since have been replaced, police said.
ATHENS, Ga.
Museum reopens in January
The Georgia Museum of Art will reopen next month after being closed for nearly two years.
The museum shut down March 2009 for a $20 million expansion and renovation project. It opens Jan. 29 with 16,000 square feet more in gallery, garden, storage and research space.
The expansion includes space for faculty and students in the University of Georgia’s art programs to research the archive from the museum’s collection. That space was funded partially by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
CLEVELAND, Tenn.
Reward grows in bus case
A reward fund in an investigation of a fan motor apparently tossed from an interstate overpass through the windshield of a bus carrying college singers in East Tennessee has grown to $12,000.
The Cleveland Daily Banner reported Tuesday that it joined the McMinn County Sheriff’s Office in starting the reward fund in hope of obtaining information about the incident Nov. 28 when the bus carrying the Lee University singers was struck on Interstate 75.
The driver, Shelton Lewis, was treated at a hospital for injuries, and glass was strewn back onto the student passengers returning from a church singing in Chambersburg, Pa.
Chief Deputy Matt Blair said that days earlier a mailbox was thrown from another nearby overpass.
TRENTON, Ga.
Christmas parade will be Saturday
Plans are under way for the 31st annual Dade County Christmas parade to be held Saturday at the city square in Trenton.
With the theme of “Treasured Memories of the Past,” 25 participants already have registered for the parade, including marching units, antique cars, fire departments, choirs and horses.
Lineup begins at 5 p.m. at North Industrial Park, with the parade beginning at 6 p.m. The floats will be judged in business, church, civic and educational categories.
Anyone interested is encouraged to call the Dade County Chamber of Commerce at 706-657-4488.