Bring That Week Back: June 13

KKK denied Adopt-A-Highway application, plus more.

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Auburn University Shooting Suspect Surrenders - A Ku Klux Klan group’s application to adopt a road in rural Georgia gets denied, George Zimmerman’s wife arrested for perjury, Auburn University shooter surrenders, plus more. –Britt Middleton After a three-day manhunt, Desmonte Leonard, 22, turned himself in early Wednesday morning in Montgomery, Alabama, and was charged with three counts of capital murder and accused of wounding three others. Leonard allegedly opened fire at a pool party at an apartment complex near Auburn University on Sunday, where two former Auburn football players were fatally shot. (Photo: AP Photo/Montgomery County Sheriff's Office)

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KKK Group Denied “Adopt-A-Highway” Application  - On Tuesday, the state of Georgia denied a Ku Klux Klan group’s application to adopt a stretch of highway along the Appalachian Mountains as part of the state’s "Adopt-A-Highway" program for litter removal, adding that the program is aimed at "civic-minded organizations in good standing," the Associated Press reported. The KKK group is expected to challenge the decision. (Photo: AP Photo/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton)

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George Zimmerman’s Wife Charged With Perjury - Shellie Zimmerman, wife of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman, was arrested Tuesday and charged with one count of perjury and accused of lying to a judge about their finances at her husband’s bond hearing in April. She was released on $1,000 bond and now faces up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. (Photo: Law Enforcement)

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NYC Mayor Defends Stop-and-Frisk at Black Church - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy on Sunday, despite increased pressure from lawmakers and activists who say it disproportionately targets Blacks and Latinos. Speaking before an all-Black congregation in Brooklyn, Bloomberg said the city was “not going to walk away from a strategy that we know saves lives.” (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Megachurch Pastor Denies Attacking Daughter - Before thousands of his congregants on Sunday, Atlanta pastor Creflo Dollar denied allegations made by his 15-year-old daughter that he punched and choked her following an argument two days earlier. Dollar, 50, “is one of the most prominent African-American preachers based around Atlanta, with 30,000 members in the Atlanta area and a ministry of satellite churches across the U.S.,” the AP reports. (Photo: AP Photo/Fayette County Sheriff's Office, File)

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Bradley Beats Pacquiao - In a widely contested split decision, boxer Timothy Bradley overcame Manny Pacquiao to take the World Boxing Organization Welterweight title on Saturday, ending the Filipino boxer’s seven-year undefeated streak. (Photo: AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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FAMU President Receives No Confidence Vote - Despite receiving a no-confidence vote from the board of trustees over the handling of the hazing death of Robert Champion, Florida A&M University President James Ammons vowed on June 7 not to quit. Eleven former FAMU band members face felony hazing charges for allegedly beating Champion to death as part of a hazing ritual in November. (Photo: AP Photo/Tallahassee Democrat, Glenn Beil)

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Cheers at Graduation Ceremony Land Mom in Cuffs - While graduation season is typically one of celebration, too much celebrating has gotten some parents in trouble with the law. One South Carolina mom was recently arrested for cheering too loudly at her daughter’s high school graduation. "I am still living in shock," Cooper told msnbc.com. "It all seems like a bad dream, a nightmare of what was to be one of the happiest days of our lives. I cheered for my baby and I got the cuffs." (Photo: Courtesy WPDE-TV)

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Romney Makes Big Bank - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney claimed on June 7 that together with the GOP, his campaign raised more than $76 million in May, the first time Romney’s campaign had surpassed Obama’s in fundraising. Obama's campaign raised $60 million combined with the Democratic Party in May, according to the AP. (Photo: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Gonorrhea Growing Resistant to Drugs - The World Health Organization warned on June 6 that gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease, is growing resistant to drugs and could soon become untreatable. The U.N. health agency is “urging governments and doctors to step up surveillance of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, a bacterial infection that can cause inflammation, infertility, pregnancy complications and, in extreme cases, lead to maternal death,” the AP reports. (Photo: REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen)