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Around the Region: Train Accident Kills Elderly Man, Court Date Set for Accused Child Molester and Pot Grower Denied Bond

A look at top Patch stories from around Georgia.

Elderly Man Killed Trying To Beat Train – Cartersville Patch One person was killed in a train-car crash on Cass-White Road near U.S. 411 in Cartersville Wednesday morning. Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright said Edward Ellis Brumfield Jr., 80, of Cartersville was killed when he drove around the stop arm and was hit in the driver's door by the train. Wright said no one else was hurt in the incident.   Court Date Set for Canton Man Accused of Child Molestation, Rape – Canton-Sixes Patch A hearing for a married Canton man accused of molesting his girlfriend's 10-year-old daughter has been set. Joshua Daniels, 29, will appear before Colquitt County Magistrate Court Judge J.J. McMillan at 9 a.m. on Jan. 10. Three weeks ago Cherokee …

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Mill Creek Student Killed in Weekend Car Accident

Driver facing multiple charges.

UPDATED Nov. 29 at 2 p.m. A Gwinnett County man is facing multiple charges in connection with a Nov. 26 accident that killed a Mill Creek High School student. Georgia State Patrol spokesman Gordy Wright said Zachary Morgan Holman, 16, and his sister Madison Holman, 11, were passengers in a 1998 Ford pickup truck being driven by Ralph Edward Whitmire Jr., 40, of Lawrenceville. According to Wright, Whitmire was traveling westbound on Bethany-Bowersville Road in Hart County at approximately 6:45 p.m. on Saturday when the vehicle left the roadway, hit a ditch and overturned. The vehicle came to rest upside down and all three occupants were ejected. Holman died at the scene. Whitmire was taken to AnMed Medical Center in Anderson, S.C. where he …

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