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Regional Roundup: Usher's Stepson Reported Brain Dead After Lanier Collision, Police Impersonators and Wandering Ponies
A look at top Patch stories from around Georgia.
-- Loganville Patch
The stepson of superstar entertainer Usher is reported brain dead after a recent collision on Lake Lanier, according to a media report.
The entertainment website TMZ.com reported that Kyle Glover, 11, has been declared brain dead by doctors, but no decision has been made whether to take him off life support.
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The collision was reported Friday. Department of Natural Resources officials said Glover and a 15 year old girl were in an inner tube and being pulled by a boat when they were struck by a jet ski. The man piloting the personal watercraft reportedly was a part of the party with the youths.
Glover and the girl were life-flighted to Egleston Hospital after the incident Friday.
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– Cartersville Patch
The  has issued an alert after a woman had her wallet taken by two men in a black Ford Crown Victoria with a blue light on the dashboard. The woman was driving in southern Paulding County when pulled over thinking she was being stopped by law enforcement officers.
The men, said to have been dressed in business attire, approached the driver, who was alone. Once the men made contact with her, one of them took her wallet. Both men then fled the scene.
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– Buckhead Patch
Two pet Shetland Ponies were found wandering a Buckhead neighborhood early Saturday morning.
After Fulton County Animal Control had been notified, the person who found the ponies hooked the gentle animals up to a dog leash and walked them into her fenced-in back yard for the night, according to an article by the AJC.
She then posted photos of the ponies on the The Mt. Paran-Northside Citizens Association website under the headline, "Found: Two Shetland ponies. (REALLY)."
The animals' caretaker saw the ad and picked them up — still safe and sound — later that day.
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