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Officer attacked with chicken wings, Coke

SMYRNA - A Florida woman was arrested after being accused of attacking a suburban Atlanta police officer with a plate of chicken wings and a 2-liter bottle, police said.

Beverly Anne Campbell, 61, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was charged with misdemeanor battery and felony assault on a police officer, according to a Smyrna police arrest warrant.

On Friday, during a function at the Smyrna Community Center, Officer W.D. Nesbit stopped a driver traveling the wrong way on a one-way street.

According to a warrant, she threw the plate of chicken wings at Officer Nesbit, hit him in the neck with the Coke bottle and punched him in the face, "several times, leaving visible injuries."

Heart attack, wreck kill former athlete

LAWRENCEVILLE - A former Central Gwinnett High School athletic star from the 1960s died in an car accident after apparently having a heart attack, police said.

Douglas Whitlock Smith, 61, was driving his 1993 Cadillac Deville when it ran off the road and struck a few small trees, continued through a field and struck an embankment during the weekend, officials said.

A passenger in the car, Clara L. Wallace, 62, told police that Mr. Smith suffered a sudden heart attack that caused him to lean forward and put his foot on the gas pedal just before the car wrecked.

Mr. Smith graduated in 1962 after leading the school to a state basketball championship in his senior year, said his brother Macklyn A. Smith.

Children make grisly discovery in vineyard

NORCROSS - A woman's burned body was found by two children picking grapes in a vineyard, police said.

Authorities have conducted an autopsy on the body, which was found Sunday.

Gwinnett County police spokesman Darren Moloney declined Monday to say whether the woman was burned to death or killed and set on fire.

Park rangers search for Atlantan, mother

ATLANTA - Yosemite National Park rangers have been looking for a Georgia man and his mother believed to be missing after they went to the park.

Xiaodong Yuan, a 34-year-old computer analyst from Stockbridge, Ga., and his mother, Zhaohui Wang, 60, last called from their Yosemite hotel Thursday and have been missing since Friday.

Mr. Yuan and his mother planned to drive the well-traveled Tioga Road route from their hotel through the park, officials said.