Kingston pleads guilty in 20 year old Fulton County murder case By Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor Less than a month after being found fit to proceed to trial, the fate of 66-year-old Dennis Kingston of Salem was sealed just short of a year after his Feb. 23, 2024 arrest for Murder in the First Degree in a 20-year-old cold case. Kingston accepted a negotiated guilty plea agreement in place of a jury…
Tammy Curtis, from interviews with Fulton County Sheriff's Jake Smith and Sharp County Sheriff Shane Russell ORIGINAL POST - 4:20 p.m Feb. 18, 2025 The Fulton County Sheriff’s Department is currently searching for a suspect who escaped police custody in the late night of Feb. 17 or early morning hours of Feb. 18 at 438 Griffin Road in Hardy in Fulton County. According to Fulton County Sheriff Jake Smith, a Fulton County…
Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor and Probable Cause Affidavit from FCSO A couple of employees of the Glencoe Valero have found themselves jobless after their attempt at ingenuity in one of the newest type crimes, theft of cryptocurrency from a Bitcoin machine located inside the business. Elizabeth Jane Austin, 52, and Dennis Kemp, 41, both of Glencoe were arrested on Feb. 4 for the crime of breaking an entering and theft. According to…
Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor A Cherokee Village contractor will not see the light of day until he is at least 74 years old. A Fulton County jury heard testimony from witnesses in the Charles Slater, II rape trial in Fulton County Circuit Court on Jan. 30. Slater was on trial for raping his then 10-year-old half-sister as she slept at her mother, Mary Pickle Kirby’s home in Fulton County. After hearing of…
Tammy Curtis, Managing Editor Just over a year after the Jan. 8, 2024, stabbing death of Derek Hamilton of Cherokee Village, the victim’s mother and her live-in boyfriend were sentenced by Judge Tim Weaver on Jan. 22 in the Fulton County case. Anna Hamilton, 48, entered a negotiated guilty plea to Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution, a Class D Felony. She and her boyfriend were held in jail, first on a $500,000 bond…
