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News Nearby: Dog Fight Death; Life Sentence for Murder; Lewd Acts

Top headlines from around the metro Atlanta area.

Friday's top stories, as reported by Patch and other news outlets: 

A 49-year-old Douglas County man died Friday while trying to break up an attack by his two dogs on another, smaller canine. 

The man's brother said the pit bulls were euthanized.

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A Roswell man has been given a life sentence, plus 80 years, for the murder of his girlfriend. Calvin Myers, 40, pleaded guilty right before his sentencing Friday in Fulton County Superior Court to the 2009 stabbing and beating death of Minka Grogran, 40.

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A Ball Ground man has been charged with committing lewd acts in front of girls at a Bartow County Wal-Mart store.

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Atlanta Police are searching for a thief who stole a watch valued at $57,000 from a Lenox Square jewelry store.

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