Metro Atlanta / State News
News from metro Atlanta and across Georgia
Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com
Airfares taking off
Prices for Atlanta flights are "coming off some pretty steep lows" and climbing higher than the national average.
Primary election leads to Aug. 10 runoff
Property tax meltdown
Cops: Man hid teacher's death
A 25-year-old man found a Douglas County third-grade teacher dead in her townhome in mid-July, but didn't tell anyone for several days, authorities charge.
5 sentenced in driver's license case
A former driver’s license examiner and four others were sentenced in federal court Wednesday to issuing Georgia driver’s licenses to people who didn’t qualify for one.
Blogs
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Atlanta Bargain Hunter »
As unemployment rises, so does the number of uninsured drivers in Georgia
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Political Insider »
Your morning jolt: On TV, Karen Handel hits Nathan Deal as ‘a corrupt relic of Washington’
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View from the Cop »
Tales from the night shift, Round 2
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Get Schooled »
Is it worth screaming over a demon mascot? Isn’t Demons better than the Chipmunks?
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Gold Dome »
State Republicans with big money lead heading into the fall campaigns
Q&A on the news »
- Q: An arrest has been made in the shooting death of a Georgia State University student outside the Pencil Factory Flats in March. Is this the same pencil factory where Mary Phagan was murdered, for which Leo Frank was charged?
- Q: I believe the Atlanta tennis event was canceled back in 2001 because they lost the sponsor. Who was the sponsor then?
- Q: I seem to remember reading a few years ago that once a major hurricane has caused a great deal of destruction, the name is retired.
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Obituaries »
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Leonard Lincoln Cohen, 84, retired executive for Jewish Family & Career Services of Atlanta
It wasn't unusual for refugees settling in Atlanta to call the Cohen residence. They were trying to reach Leonard Cohen, their counselor.
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John Marvel 'Dr. Jack' Schreeder, 93, 'the whistling doctor'
Dr. Jack's patients would hear him whistling gospel hymns long before he rang their door bells. "He would go see all the home-bound patients," said Jean Bowen of Suwanee, who worked for Dr.
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Dr. Linda Lucetta 'Lindy' Wolfenden, 40, 'got into medicine for the people'
One thing Dr. Lindy Wolfenden loved about practicing medicine was the people. As a pulmonologist, she often would treat patients for a specific ailment and they'd never return.
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