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A Pakistani man accused of killing his daughter five days after she filed for divorce to end her arranged marriage wept in court Tuesday, telling a Clayton County magistrate he is innocent.

An arranged marriage led to murder. That's what investigators in Clayton County, Georgia are saying.

JONESBORO, Ga. - Twenty-five-year-old Sandeela Kanwal was not happy with the marriage her father had arranged for her.

Police in Clayton County, Ga., said a daughter's refusal to stay in an arranged marriage led to her death and resulted in her father's arrest.

An Alabama man who came to Georgia on Sunday for a job was shot to death in his cousin's yard the same afternoon, Clayton County police said.

A Clayton County man faces murder charges in the strangling death of his 25-year-old daughter early Sunday over her desire to end an arranged marriage.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 07/02/08 All Clayton County elementary and some middle school students will have to wear uniforms when they return to classes next month.

All Clayton County elementary and some middle school students will have to wear uniforms when they return to classes next month.

Lt. Myra Kay Lee, passed away Monday June 23 2008, in Hawaii, at her house, due to a heart attack.

ATLANTA : "Desperate Pets!" read the headline of an online classified ad posted from Lee County, Florida, which is ranked first in the nation in home foreclosures.

Two armed men roused three roommates from sleep early Tuesday morning, tying them up and forcing them into a closet while they ransacked their Jonesboro home, police said.

There are only 97 days between Memorial Day and Labor Day. So little time, so much out there to do.

More News Headlines New DUI law in Georgia In less than two weeks Georgia's DUI laws will get stricter.

Kenny Ruffin has seen restaurants flee Clayton County and companies look elsewhere to relocate.

The Racine Unified School District is on the hunt for a superintendent - ' again.

A judge in Jonesboro has ruled that a 17-year-old charged with murdering another teen will be not be tried as an adult because prosecutors let the case languish.

Bob Barr's two-day swing through an overcast Big Apple last week could very well have been the most important 48 hours of his long-shot, Libertarian Party bid to win the U.S. presidency.

JONESBORO, Ga. - The father of a high school science teacher who allegedly threatened to rip a student's eyeballs out, has apologized for his son's actions, saying he was stressed out and "between a rock and a ...

Seventeen-year-old Joshua Penny wants to tell Barack Obama about his fears of receiving a worthless high school diploma.

Emotions run high at a packed Clayton County school board meeting March 3 in light of a regional accrediting group's threat to pull the district's credential.