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A more than 250- unit apartment complex could be coming to the area between the Mall of Georgia and Coolray Field. The county’s Planning Commission is scheduled to consider a request by Pedcor Investments to recommend approval of a 256- unit apartment complex on 23.2 acres at the 1300 and 1400 blocks of Laurel Crossing Parkway next month. The site is east of Buford Drive and just south of Interstate 85 in the Mall of Georgia Overlay District . “The proposed development would add an important component to that encouraged mix of uses,” attorney Shane Lanham wrote in a letter to county officials. “Moreover, the proposed development is consistent with established development patterns and land uses in the area. “More intense commercial and office uses are dominant along major travel corridors with land uses transitioning to lower density developments moving off the roadway. The property is not located directly on Buford Drive, but on Laurel Crossing Parkway behind existing commercia...

GROVETON, VA—A man was arrested and charged after squatting in an apartment overnight Tuesday . Around 10 a.m. Tuesday, staff at Beacon Hill Apartments were about show a vacant unit to prospective residents when they found the door closed with an interior chain lock . Police arrived and searched the apartment, finding a man hiding in the closet. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts .) The man admitted to staying overnight. Deandre Demus, 24, was arrested and charged with unlawful entry. Image via Google maps screenshot Get free real- time news alerts from the Greater Alexandria Patch . Thanks for your feedback! Now share it with your friends!Thanks for your feedback. Originally published August 2 , 2017. More from Greater Alexandria Patch

SAN ANTONIO - About a dozen people are displaced after their apartment was damaged in a Friday night fire .  According to authorities, the fire started around 10:30 p.m. in the upstairs unit of the Riverstone Apartments in the 8700 block of Cinnamon Creek.  When crews arrived flames were shooting out from four apartments and it became a two-alarm fire, SAFD said. Thirty-two units were called in to fight the fire.  Two people were injured when they jumped from the second floor window to escape the blaze, SAFD said.  Authorities said a police officer was injured, possibly with a broken bone, when he tried catching a child that was tossed down to him from the second story.  The apartments suffered major damage , though there is no estimate yet on exactly how much.  Arson investigators are looking into the cause of the blaze.  -------------------------------------------------------- Don't miss a thing. Get email alerts from KSAT12 today. Get alerted to news events as they happen or ...

SAN ANTONIO - Two men are dead following a shooting at an apartment complex early Friday morning , San Antonio police said. The shooting was reported just before 3:30 a.m. at the LaRisa Apartments in the 800 block of Babcock Road, just south of Hillcrest on the city's Northwest Side . According to police there had been a disturbance at the home earlier in the night. One of the men involved left but then returned before getting into a dispute with a man inside the home. Police said they believe the two men shot and killed each other. RELATED:  Feds arrest 2 possibly linked to investigation of shooting death of 4-year-old boy RELATED: One man cuts another man in self-defense, police say There were other people inside the home at the time of the shooting but they all left the scene. Officials said the early dispute likely had to do with a woman and baby but that they are not sure if that was the reason for shooting. This is a developing story. Stay with KSAT 12 both online and on-...

President Donald Trump roared, blamed, boasted, omitted and obfuscated Tuesday night at a campaign rally in Phoenix, but there was one thing he decided against doing: selling his stalled legislative agenda . A night after delivering a measured and somewhat-detailed prime-time address that laid out his new counterterrorism- focused Afghanistan strategy , Trump’s criticism of the news media, his increasingly visible insecurities and his fixation on his political base took over just minutes into his remarks in the Valley of the Sun. Trump had picked up some much-needed momentum the previous night by sticking to a script with his Afghanistan address, but he let it slip away Tuesday as he began to attack the media, criticize Republican senators and take on other sensitive issues. The president began his appearance at the rally much as he had spent the previous evening: reading prepared remarks from a teleprompter that called for national unity after the Charlottesville violence, which ...

SHELBY TOWNSHIP , Mich. - A man left a candle burning when he fell asleep causing a fire Monday morning at the Pebble Creek Apartments in Shelby Township , the fire chief said.  About 12 units were impacted by the fire at the building on Pebble Creek near West Utica and Ryan roads.  "When we got here it was basically a wall of fire," said Shelby Township Fire Chief Jim Swinkowski . "There was a gentleman who had a candle burning, the candle fell of the table and started the blanket and a portion of the couch. He woke up to the smoke detector. And with smoke in there he got his son up. His son tried to drag the couch out of the apartment but was overcome. Once he opened the door wall and put all the fresh oxygen in there the fire really started going." Swinkowski said the man pulled his son out of the building and called 911. He said the fire spread up the outside of the building and onto the roof.  "When our crews got here just a couple minutes later, they j...