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Ga. Supreme Court upholds conviction in Valentines Day murder-for-hire
Woman accused of helping friend arrange to have her husband killed
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The Georgia Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction of a woman involved in a 2010 murder-for-hire that killed a man on Valentine’s Day in Hall County. Lynitra McKale Ross appealed her life prison sentence on the grounds that the cellphone records linking her to her friend Stacey Morgan Schoeck and Reginald Coleman should not have been admitted as evidence. The three were convicted in 2012 on murder charges in a plot to kill Schoeck’s husband Richard Schoeck on Valentine’s Day.
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Friends plan to convert historic Flowery Branch business into ‘Bangarang Brews’
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Josh Roberts, right, and Adam Fiddler tour the old Hamilton Cabinet Shop Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Flowery Branch where the two plan to open a micro brewery - photo by Scott Rogers
A pair of lifelong best friends are planning to turn a 75-year-old building in downtown Flowery Branch into a brewpub, but they say they’re not about to put hops over history.
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