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Lake Lanier

75-year-old angler dies after snagging lure in Lake Lanier, officials say

The incident happened Friday after the man fell from a boat, according to the Hall County Sheriff’s Office.

Scientists expect a slightly less active hurricane season in 2026

A quieter hurricane season may be coming. That’s not all good news for Georgia.

The slightly less active hurricane season scientists predict is partly due to the El Niño climate pattern they expect to develop. Drought relief may also be less likely.

Metro Atlanta students (from left) Jaylyn Fehr, Jackson Mobley and Charlotte Martin were killed Monday in a Florida car crash. (Photos from GoFundMe, Horizon Christian Academy Facebook, GoFundme)

3 metro Atlanta students killed in Florida spring break crash identified

The water tower in Cumming will be lit in the school colors of Horizon Christian Academy, where the four teens involved in the crash were students.

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Georgia Midterms Money

The money race: House incumbents lead in Georgia, with one exception

Candidates in some of Georgia’s most competitive congressional races have begun to lap the field in fundraising.

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Walmart plans to renovate these Georgia stores

Walmart plans to spruce up 13 stores stretching across Georgia by the end of the year.

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GEORGIA DISPATCH

Georgia lost and found: How a phone missing at sea turned up 7 months later.

A young woman was paddleboarding when her cellphone floated away, encased inside Tupperware. Many months later, long after Find My iPhone went dead, a Georgia family found it.

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Crime & Public Safety
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Hall County football coach arrested, accused of filming under girls’ clothes

Georgia authorities say a private school teacher took "inappropriate and surreptitious photos or videos of minor children during the course of normal school activities."

Midtown shooter trial scheduled

Trial set in Midtown shooting suspect’s case

The man accused of fatally shooting one woman and injuring four others at a Midtown medical building in 2023 is scheduled to stand trial in Atlanta in June.

ACLU news conference about Fulton County Jail conditions

Fulton Commission unanimously approves $1.3B jail financing plan

County officials say they are weighing short-term housing solutions, including sending Fulton inmates to private prisons.

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OBITUARY

Janice White Sikes Rogers, who shaped how Atlanta preserves Black history, dead at 73

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Woman killed in DeKalb shooting spree was a federal employee, DHS says

January housing market

Atlanta’s busy season for home-buying is off to a slow start

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Man accused in DeKalb shooting spree had convictions in Savannah, California

Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport long lines

In busiest airport battle, Atlanta takes top spot. Rival Chicago disagrees.

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Coca-Cola to sell part of corporate campus to Georgia Tech

Midtown Alliance meeting / park update

This 4-acre hole in Midtown will become Atlanta’s newest park. Take a look.

Avanos Medical headquarters

This metro Atlanta medical company agrees to be sold in $1.3 billion deal