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Reports of a reckless driver on East Main Street in Atlanta, Texas last Wednesday afternoon soon turned into a wild high-speed pursuit after a concerned citizen reported a driver making U-turns in the middle of the roadway, according to an Atlanta Police Department release.

A couple was arrested Tuesday, Sept 20, in Sulphur Springs, Texas with two firearms, and prescription medication all reported stolen from a Cass County residence just days before, according to Hopkins County Sheriff ’s Office reports.

A substitute physical education teacher working in Caddo Parish School District was arrested Sept 12 after an August 23 incident when the substitute offered to pay up to $25 dollars for five students to tackle another student, according to Public Information Officer Bia Roldan, with Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office. Aadrina Smith, 24—reportedly of Atlanta, Texas— is alleged to have offered to pay five different students $5 each to tackle another student in PE class. Detectives with CPSO arrested Smith for encouraging students to commit battery and bully a classmate said, Sheriff Steve Prator. “Video of the incident shows Smith verbally communicating with five students and appeared to congratulate three who participated in the battery,” Roldan said. “The substitute teacher sat on the bleachers while the victim lay on the gym floor and later got up. Smith never helped the victim and did not report the incident.”