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Six-Year-Old Dunwoody Girl Recovering from Three-story Fall

Youthful play turned dangerous Sunday night when a local girl fell out of a three-story window after jumping on her bed.

The Dunwoody girl was quickly rushed to Scottish Rite hospital, where she was admitted with minor injuries. .

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In one of the most shocking police accidents of the year, an Atlanta Police helicopter lost control and fell out of the sky while clipping power lines at the corner of Martin Luther King and H.E. Holmes Drive on Saturday evening, November 3, 2012. The 2 officers piloting the helicopter died at the fiery scene.

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Channel 2 reports that investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are currently looking into what caused the crash. And the Atlanta Journal-Constitution says the Atlanta Police wanted the helicopter replaced in 2001. .

Plane Bound for McCollum Lands on I-575

A plane bound for McCollum Field had to make an emergency landing this afternoon on Interstate 575 South just south of Barrett Parkway. Three people were aboard the plane, a fixed wing single-engine aircraft that is registered to Jesse Smalley of Kennesaw, according to the Federal Aviation Administration Registry.

"No injuries on the ground and no injuries in the aircraft," Officer Mike Bowman, spokesman for the Cobb County Police Department, told Kennesaw Patch. .

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