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    Jerome Bettis arranges Go Fund Me for late high school football coach, NFL teammate
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    Gwinnett leaders to vote to remove Confederate statue from city square
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    Decatur school board chair shares COVID-19 diagnosis at meeting
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    DeKalb certifies runoff results, preps for yet another election
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    Cobb schools cancel in-person learning for next week
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    COVID claims Judith Colbs, 89, stand-in mother for Atlanta’s LGBTQ community
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    Doctors tell DeKalb residents to be patient amid turbulent COVID-19 vaccine rollout
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    Georgia voter challenges fall short, with few ballots thrown out
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    Paulding County schools superintendent retiring
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    Week One: Georgia legislative session off to rocky start
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