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During a Monday work session Councilman Larry Dibiase said the park site has more space available for sports activities than is shown in existing plans, such as 12 acres of land acquired last spring. (Courtesy City of Johns Creek)

Cricket anyone? Johns Creek considers more sports fields for Cauley Creek Park

Madyun Shahid, a descendant of April Waters who is buried at Macedonia, was interviewed by Johns Creek students in September for the documentary. Courtesy Irene Sanders

Johns Creek students produce documentary films on historic Black cemetery

Street racers taking over the streets of metro Atlanta suburbs

Street racers taking over the streets of metro Atlanta suburbs

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Johns Creek Mayor John Bradberry. Officials in Roswell and Johns Creek say their new mayors and city councils bring an opportunity for more civility following often contentious meetings.

New mayors and city council members take office in Roswell, Johns Creek

At a recent Alpharetta City Council meeting, three council members were called on to appoint individuals to various boards and commissions. (AJC File Photo)

Alpharetta council members announce appointments to board & commissions

Alpharetta is seeking volunteers to join a county-wide effort to conduct the federally mandated Homeless Point In Time Count during the evening of Thursday, Jan. 27. (Courtesy Fulton County)

Alpharetta seeking volunteers for homeless count

Alpharetta’s Municipal Court can be found in the Milton Public Safety Complex, 13690 Highway 9, behind fire station 44. (Google Maps)

Alpharetta reappoints Judge Zimmerman as Municipal Court Judge

Alpharetta is lending the city's support to the North Fulton Community Improvement District as they apply for grant funding through the State Road and Tollway Authority to aid in funding the Kimball Bridge Road Corridor Multimodal Gap Connection. (Google Maps)

Alpharetta supports North Fulton CID grant request for Kimball Bridge Road Corridor...

The Alpharetta Department of Public Safety has applied for a 2022 Law Enforcement Training Program Grant to help build a multi-purpose training house. (Courtesy Alpharetta Department of Public Safety)

Alpharetta to apply for grant to fund officer training house

Near downtown, Alpharetta sought to reduce the speed limit by 10 mph to an allowable speed of 25 mph on parts of Main Street, Cumming Street, Lakeview Parkway, Mayfield Road and Milton Avenue. Contributed by Alpharetta Convention & Visitors Bureau

Alpharetta looks to slow speeding traffic

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Fulton County making plan to distribute 50,000 home COVID-19 test kits

Fulton County making plan to distribute 50,000 home COVID-19 test kits

Alpharetta celebrating 20th anniversary of Harry Potter series

Alpharetta releases Annual Citizens Report for 2021

6 Georgia cities among South's top 50

Alpharetta is hosting their annual "Bring One For The Chipper" Christmas tree recycling event 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Jan. 8 at The Home Depot, 5300 Windward Parkway. (Courtesy Davey Tree Expert Company)

Alpharetta hosting ‘Bring One For The Chipper’ Saturday, Jan. 8

Smoke in Alpharetta due to construction at 400 and McGinnis Ferry Road

City of Atlanta cancels Peach Drop amid new wave of COVID-19 cases

Victims of quadruple shooting that left mother dead want justice

Metro churches grapple with Christmas Eve services as COVID-19 spikes

Metro churches grapple with Christmas Eve services as COVID-19 spikes

Fulton County and its cities reconsider mandates due to ‘dire’ omicron projections

Spend your New Year’s Eve at Punch Bowl Social Atlanta

North Fulton: Here’s how to request police check your home while away

Alpharetta has approved the purchase of extrication rescue equipment from Georgia Fire & Rescue Supply. (Courtesy Georgia Fire & Rescue Supply)

Alpharetta approves purchase of fire extrication rescue equipment

Alpharetta offering vacation watch program

Alpharetta police asking residents to join Neighbors App by Ring

Alpharetta is hiring full and part time employees

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These two steam locomotives are being overhauled at the Pegram Shops in Atlanta in this photo from the 1940s. The photo is par of the railroad archive at the Atlanta History Center. Photo Kenneth Rogers

Atlanta and the Railroads: a special project

The art gallery entrance foyer has a floating staircase placed between two walls. Text by Jeffrey Bruce Baker/Nancy Tao

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Georgia Tech professor faces backlash over COVID-19 comments on class...

Family of teen killed by Cobb police files $150 million lawsuit

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Education

ATLANTA - Georgia Tech associate math professor John McCuan stands in his office after class on Jan. 18, 2022. McCuan criticized efforts by administrators to get students to wear masks in classes and get vaccinated without "critical thinking." His remarks have angered many alumni and current students. (Eric Stirgus/eric.stirgus@ajc.com)

Georgia Tech prof faces backlash over COVID-19 ‘scamdemic’ comments

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Ron Tripodo, center, yells at the Cherokee County School Board after they passed a resolution to ban teaching critical race theory and then adjourned the meeting Thursday night, May 20, 2021. Tripodo was upset that the language in the resolution was ambiguous and didn’t really do anything. Now, lawmakers and Gov. Brian Kemp say they want to ban the graduate school-level theory in K-12 classrooms. (Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Georgia legislators, educators square off over critical race theory

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Lassiter High senior Jake Hays wanted to speak at a Cobb County Board of Education meeting in November. But because of a board policy that says students under 18 need a parent present, he wasn't able to. Now he and his classmates are working to change that policy. (Photo provided)

Cobb students push to speak to school board without parent permission

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Gov. Brian Kemp’s proposed 2022-2023 state budget would eliminate the deep austerity cuts that have occurred in K-12 schools in 18 of the last 20 years.

Opinion: Proposed K-12 budget in Georgia would end austerity cuts

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Politics

State lawyers filed their response Wednesday to a lawsuit that former U.S. Sen. David Perdue filed challenging a state law that allows Gov. Brian Kemp and some legislative leaders to raise money during a General Assembly session while most other lawmakers cannot. They said Perdue's “litigation strategy reflects a sandbagging effort to tilt the playing field in his favor.” (Curtis Compton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS)

Kemp says federal suit aims to put him at a political disadvantage4h ago

Officials from the state Department of Corrections and the state Department of Juvenile Justice told legislators Wednesday that the retention of officers remains a problem even after last year's 10% pay raise. Pay is not the sole problem, they said. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

Despite raises, turnover remains high at Georgia prisons, juvenile centers

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Ron Tripodo, center, yells at the Cherokee County School Board after they passed a resolution to ban teaching critical race theory and then adjourned the meeting Thursday night, May 20, 2021. Tripodo was upset that the language in the resolution was ambiguous and didn’t really do anything. Now, lawmakers and Gov. Brian Kemp say they want to ban the graduate school-level theory in K-12 classrooms. (Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Georgia legislators, educators square off over critical race theory8h ago

Democrat Charlie Bailey, who lost a close race for attorney general in 2018, recently abandoned his bid for a rematch against Republican Chris Carr to instead run for lieutenant governor. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

‘Backroom deals’ reshape Democratic races in Georgia

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Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) arrives at a press conference on preparations for an incoming winter storm on January 14th, 2022 at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia. (Nathan Posner for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Politically Georgia: Inside Georgia’s record-smashing budget12h ago

FILE - Stacey Abrams speaks to Biden supporters as they wait for former President Barack Obama to arrive and speak at a campaign rally for Biden at Turner Field in Atlanta, Nov. 2, 2020. A resurgent GOP is poised to reclaim one, if not both, chambers of Congress and retain its lock on dozens of state legislatures and governor’s offices. The turnaround — which is expected but far from assured — is fueled by an unpopular Joe Biden presidency, deep frustration with the lingering pandemic and fresh concerns about inflation, as well as the GOP having history on its side. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Stacey Abrams lands key union endorsements for 2022 bid

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Crime

Firefighters and other emergency crews responded to a hazmat situation along Riverside Parkway on Wednesday afternoon. Authorities responded after a tractor-trailer overturned. (Credit: Douglas County Fire/EMS Department)

Hazmat spill in Lithia Springs shuts down busy road

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What to do when you're stopped by police

Escaped fugitive from Massachusetts found in rural Georgia

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The warning sign placed in registered sex offenders' yards by the Butts County Sheriff's Office a few days before Halloween. (Photo: 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion.)

Atlanta court: Sheriff cannot put warning signs in sex offenders’ yards

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Douglasville police Chief Gary Sparks shared details Tuesday about multiple arrests made in a New Year's Eve shooting that left a 15-year-old dead.

3 of 4 suspects arrested in 15-year-old’s shooting death at Douglasville party

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A man was shot multiple times while helping someone on an I-75 exit ramp at around 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Man shot multiple times while helping someone on I-75, witness says

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DeKalb County: Fire Capt. Winfred Smith (center-left) emits steam from his overheated body after he came out of a house fire into the morning cold. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

Fire engulfs vacant Decatur home

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Vincent Truitt, 17, was shot and killed by Cobb County police following a chase in 2020. (Credit: Family photo)

Family of teen killed by Cobb police files $150 million lawsuit

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Former Norcross police Officer Kevin Shawn Day was arrested Tuesday on charges he pandered a prostitute for sex, misused law enforcement databases and violated his oath as a police officer.

Ousted Norcross police officer arrested on pandering charges

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