Metro Atlanta / State News
News from metro Atlanta and across Georgia
Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com
Shoe box changed girl's life
Livia was 12 when she got a box of toys from an area family. She also got the family.
Atlanta mayor's race
AJC Atlanta Project »
- Part 1: City leaders fiddle as crime fears flare | Solutions
- Part 2: Pumped-up pensions squeeze city | Solutions
- Part 3: What stinks? High cost of water, sewer | Solutions
- Part 4: No walking away from panhandling problem | Solutions
- Part 5: Conflict between city, state | Solutions
- Part 6: Engine for growth has run out of fuel | Solutions
2 Ga. students get Marshall Scholarship
Two students at Georgia colleges have received the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for graduate study in the United Kingdom.
Grady at impasse with insurer
The insurer that handles Medicaid for Grady Memorial Hospital said it will terminate the hospital's contract Saturday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.
Football tragedy in Waycross
Three days before burying his 11-year-old son, Mitchell Maxwell Sr. spent the morning in a Waycross courtroom answering allegations that he attacked the 12-year-old boy who accidentally killed his namesake.
Region and state »
- State turns to two-year colleges to house enrollment boom
- On Afghanistan trip, Chambliss, other lawmakers from Georgia say more troops are needed
- Lawmakers get bounty of benefits
- Perdue asked to move dirt dredged from lake
- Dollars Gingrich spurned go to dogs
- Richardson faced setbacks before suicide try
Blogs
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Political Insider »
A Thanksgiving greeting from New York
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View from the Cop »
Beware, crooks love the holidays, too
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Get Schooled »
No college degree for overweight students without fitness class
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Gold Dome »
Bill takes aim at lottery bonuses
Q&A on the news »
- Q: After all the rain we have had over the last several weeks, how long will it take our saturated ground to return to a normal state?
- Q: As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a COBRA subsidy plan was enacted to reduce the COBRA premiums for up to nine months for unemployed workers laid off between September 2008 and
- Q: In a recent AJC, there was a blurb that said a Civil War shipwreck was identified as the CSS Appomattox. What fame did it have prior to being the location where Grant and Lee met to end the Civil W
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Obituaries »
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Rufus Cameron, 70, piano man
Rufus Cameron's grandmother played the organ. His grandfather played the banjo.Growing up, Mr. Cameron spent countless days at the home of George and Fannie Johnson Truitt.
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Ralph Jones, former Peachtree City mayor, dies
Ralph Jones was a take-charge kind of guy.In the early 1960s, he moved to Peachtree City to run a plant that manufactured concrete panels for office buildings.
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Frances Teate, 88: Volunteer in Central America
Luten Teate Jr. was a pediatrician. Frances Teate, his wife, was a dietitian.The couple wanted their four children to know, and understand, that not everybody lived the good life.
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