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Cobb County police are asking the public for help in locating a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run that killed a man while crossing Austell Road on Sunday morning.

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Cobb police need help finding vehicle involved in fatal hit-and-run on Austell Road
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An artfully poured cappuccino at Spiller Park Coffee in Ponce City Market. Its next location, in the Toco Hills Shopping Center, is expected to open later this summer. CONTRIBUTED BY HENRI HOLLIS

Spiller Park to open fourth location and more restaurant news from the week
PeachFest is returning to Peachtree Center on July 26.

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Metro Atlanta food and drink events to check out in July
Terrence Speer (left) and Antoine Malone, both 20, were indicted for murder Thursday in a Cobb County shooting.

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Pair indicted for murder in shooting at Barrett Parkway restaurant in Cobb
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040316 ROSWELL, GA: Names and dates line the voluminous records at the Church of Latter Day Saints Family History Center, where people come to research their family's genealogy. Family History Center at 500 Norcross Street in Roswell. For Helen Cauley feature on Geneaology - Family Trees. (Parker C. Smith/Special)

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Annual list of best genealogy websites published
Investigators worked to learn who shot a man who crashed his SUV in the front yard of a Gwinnett County home Jan. 27. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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Road shootings still a deadly, dangerous trend in 2022
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How late can you shoot fireworks in Georgia?
Terrill Anton Jones is accused of killing a man in May, according to Smyrna police.

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Police: Already a felon, suspect in Smyrna murder remains on the run
Braves public address announcer Casey Motter looks over his notes before the Braves' home opener in April 2007. Motter, whose first season was 2007, died Wednesday, the team announced Thursday. (Johnny Crawford / AJC file)

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Braves public address announcer Casey Motter dies
A 6-month-old was killed in a drive-by shooting Jan. 24.

Kids, teens across metro Atlanta among 2022 shooting victims
March 31, 2020 Atlanta: Battery resident Dalton Becker has the Georgia Power Pavilion area all to himself to take a break from exercising outside the Omni Hotel and Comcast building at Truist Park on Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in Atlanta. Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com

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Cobb 2023 budget: Travel rebound to help with Braves stadium costs
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Issa Prescott is the co-owner of Life Bistro in Sylvan Hills. (Natrice Miller / natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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Black-owned vegan restaurants awaken appetite for plant-based diet
Marietta hosts Fourth in the Park Celebration
‘Breakdown’ Season 2, Ep. 18: ‘Death in a Hot Car; Mistake or Murder?’
Braves Softball Coach of the Week: Wes Ward, Sandy Plains softball
Doug Spence is nominee for Braves Coach of the Week.

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Braves Baseball Coach of the Week: Doug Spence, Sandy Plains Baseball
Cupid proposes $1.2B Cobb County budget with no new taxes
Driver re-arrested after Marietta man injured in hit-and-run dies
Filling up at this metro Atlanta gas station is tasty
A hot pink billboard on Briarcliff Road in Atlanta challenges viewers to fight antisemitism. It's one of 10 coming to the metro Atlanta area through the fall. (Miguel Martinez / Miguel.martinezjimenez@ajc.com)

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New billboards decry antisemitism in metro Atlanta
Woman pulled from Cobb County lake
Woman’s body recovered from Lake Acworth
PHOTOS: Confederate memorials in metro Atlanta
June 24, 2022 Atlanta - People march to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in downtown Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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In abortion ruling’s wake, Georgians remain divided, determined
Powder Springs hosts 4th of July Celebration
Georgia teen: School should be safe haven for students to say and be gay
Spicewalla opens at Ponce City Market and more dining news from the week
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Education
Dunwoody High students dine with Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch (right in blue) and the city council as part of a school club that connects students with local government.

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Dunwoody students connect to city
The DeKalb County School District is still trying to fill about 400 teacher vacancies.

DeKalb cuts more than 500 teaching positions but without layoffs
Then-Pickens County School Superintendent Carlton Wilson (left) and board members listen to speakers during a meeting to address questions and concerns about transgender students and the use of bathrooms of their choice at Pickens County High School on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, in Jasper. (Curtis Compton / AJC file photo)

Ex-Pickens County school superintendent indicted in theft case
A DeKalb parent says the school board is directing millions of additional dollars to central office expenditures, including additional staff for finance, human resources and IT, instead of to students and classrooms.

Opinion: DeKalb’s new budget shortchanges students, classrooms
Politics
The Georgia Public Service Commission is pictured in its hearing room. From left: Commissioners Fitz Johnson, Tim Echols, Tricia Pridemore, Lauren “Bubba” McDonald and Jason Shaw.

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Judge weighs whether Georgia PSC elections are discriminatory
In this photo of May 11, 2022, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) walks out of the Senate Chambers during a series of votes in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/TNS)

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Warnock focuses Senate hearing on curbing drug prices
June 7, 2022 Buford - Sam’s Club in Buford near Mall of Georgia was busy with motorists seeking for cheaper gas price on Tuesday, June 6, 2022. Georgia gas prices hit new heights on Tuesday, according to AAA, with an average statewide cost of $4.33 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel. That’s still well below the national average of $4.92 per gallon.(Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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The Jolt: Gas tax battle heats up as Stacey Abrams targets voters at the pump
A group of lobbyists watch the sessions on Sine Die, the last day of the General Assembly, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Monday, April 4, 2022. Several bills passed focused on education will become law on July 1. (Branden Camp for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Georgia’s new education laws take effect July 1
Abortion rights activists protest outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022. The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade shifted the abortion fight to state legislatures, where gerrymandering has given Republicans an advantage. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)

OPINION: Women, it’s time to run for something
Video from January 6 is played as Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testifies as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 28, 2022. (Anna Moneymaker/Pool via AP)

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Politically Georgia podcast: Clash over January 6 deepens in Georgia
Crime
Multiple people were injured at a Paulding County gas station after a driver crashed through its parking lot before attempting to take his own life, according to the sheriff's office. (Photo: Paulding County Sheriff's Office)

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Multiple people injured after man crashes through Paulding gas station parking lot
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A 48-year-old man at Lanier Lanier was the first drowning victim of the Fourth of July weekend, according to state authorities.

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48-year-old man at Lanier first drowning victim of Fourth of July weekend
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Cobb County police are asking the public for help in locating a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run that killed a man while crossing Austell Road on Sunday morning.

Credit: Henri Hollis

Cobb police need help finding vehicle involved in fatal hit-and-run on Austell Road
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Jada Statum, 24, was critically wounded in a June 26 shooting at a Subway sandwich shop in Atlanta. She is still in ICU, but doctors say she's now stable, according to family members.

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Woman wounded in Subway shooting over extra mayo showing signs of improvement
A motorcycle rider was killed after slamming into a patrol vehicle Friday afternoon in Tyrone. Georgia State Patrol troopers investigated the crash.

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Motorcyclist dies after crash with police cruiser in Fayette, GSP says
An unidentified man was shot and killed in Atlanta late Friday night.

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Man dies after being shot on King Street in Atlanta
A 19-year-old man was shot and killed at a townhouse complex in Decatur late Friday night.

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Police investigate shooting death at DeKalb townhouse complex
Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney (background) speaks to legislators’ attorney, Don Samuel during a motion hearing at Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Friday, July 1, 2022. Fulton Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney at a roughly 90-minute hearing Friday did not come to a final decision about what exactly the District Attorney’s office can ask Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, former state Sen. William Ligon of Brunswick and several other unnamed state legislators. But he said that anything related to their conversations with other legislators or motivations are off-limits. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Trump probe: Fulton judge hears from lawmakers challenging subpoenas
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