Arcade veterans memorial

The newspapers of record for Rockdale and Newton counties said they will start publishing a joint Sunday edition.

ATLANTA — A man convicted in the 1993 murders of his parents and sister faces a Wednesday execution. However, lawyers for Andrew Grant DeYoung contend one of the drugs the state is planning on using during the execution — an alternative to sodium thiopental — could lead to pain, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. A judge ordered that the exeuction be videotaped, the newspaper reported. DeYoung was convicted in Cobb County of the June 14, 1993, murders of

Gov. Sonny Perdue has signed into law legislation that prohibits drivers from texting while behind the wheel.