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Clarkdale Elementary School wait at a social distance as they prepare to board their school buses after school in Austell in 2020. Coronavirus cases in metro Atlanta school districts remain high even as overall counts across Georgia are down from the record numbers posted in early January. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

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COVID cases in metro Atlanta schools remain high, even as omicron slows

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Contestant Sabrina portrait, as seen on Holiday Baking Championship, Season 8.

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Cobb native shares journey from ballerina to rising pastry chef

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Tevin McDonald, 29, of Smyrna, was taken into custody Friday on multiple counts of aggravated assault and weapons charges related to a series of shootings targeting a townhome in Marietta. (Credit: Marietta Police Department)

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Alleged Marietta townhome shooter was charged in 2016 psychiatric facility incident

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Alexis Vandoley Serrano, 26, of Mableton, was arrested Friday and charged with felony hit-and-run.

Cobb man charged in hit-and-run crash that killed pedestrian

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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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Place of birth versus nationality often confusing in genealogy research

Board member Dr. Jaha Howard speaks during a Cobb County School Board meeting in Marietta on Thursday, July 15, 2021. He announced this week that he is running for state school superintendent. (Christine Tannous / AJC file photo)

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Cobb school board member Jaha Howard runs for state superintendent

Acworth events coming soon in February will include the Special Olympics Georgia Polar Plunge on Feb. 19 to raise money for about 27,000 Special Olympics Georgia athletes. (Courtesy of Acworth)

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Acworth February events include Polar Plunge

Superintendent of the Cobb County School District Chris Ragsdale and board member David Chastain speak during a Cobb County school board meeting in 2021. On Thursday, Ragsdale said the district would resume posting coronavirus case counts. (Christine Tannous / AJC file photo)

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Cobb County School District posts first COVID data report in weeks

A man was taken into custody Friday on multiple counts of aggravated assault and weapons charges related to a bizarre series of shootings targeting a specific townhome in Marietta. (Credit: Marietta Police Department)

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Smyrna man arrested, charged with shooting at Marietta townhome

A photo of Chet Planchard, who was one of four people killed by Ronald Freeman 30 years ago during a robbery and shooting spree, is displayed during a vigil Thursday night in Marietta. (Branden Camp for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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30 years later, vigil held for victims of Cobb spree killings

03/03/2021 —Marietta, Georgia — Cobb County resident Willia George, 84, receives a single dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine while at a Cobb and Douglass County Public Health Department COVID-19 vaccine drive thru at Jim Miller Park in Marietta, Wednesday, February 3, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

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Cobb to distribute delayed COVID test kits Sunday

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Dent 'Wildman' Myers at 70 years old. The owner of a Civil War relic shop was a flamboyant and controversial fixture in downtown Kennesaw. (KATIE KING/Staff)

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Dent Myers, purveyor of Old South, dies at 90

Passengers stranded as COVID forces metro Atlanta transit services to cancel trips

Cobb school board changes policy for public comments at meetings

Cobb extends state of emergency as COVID cases remain high

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)

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Cobb students push to speak to school board without parent permission

2 arrested in Marietta burglary after SWAT standoff

Powder Springs State of the City town hall to be Jan. 25

Smyrna approves public land sale for downtown brewery

MARTA plans to redesign its bus routes and is seeking public input. (File photo by EMILY HANEY/emily.haney@ajc.com)

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MARTA will redesign bus routes – here’s your chance to comment

Former Cobb Chairman Boyce hospitalized after strokes

7-year-old killed in hit-and-run remembered as ‘a beautiful soul’

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In this Oct. 3, 2016, file photo, Justin Ross Harris listens during his trial at the Glynn County Courthouse. The Georgia man was found guilty of murder in the 2014 death of his toddler son, who died after he was left in a hot car for hours. Harris is asking the state’s highest court to overturn his conviction. Harris was convicted in November 2016 on eight counts, including malice murder, in the death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper. (Stephen B. Morton/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool, File)

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Lawyer argues Justin Ross Harris wrongly convicted in hot-car case

Heated debate expected over proposed brewery for downtown Smyrna

WATCH: Surveillance video shows man shoot into Marietta townhome in broad daylight

Kennesaw Confederate souvenir shop owner Dent Myers dies

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State Sen. Bo Hatchett says a blanket ban on teaching CRT is the “most straightforward approach,” but the Clarkesville Republican added that legislators need to better define what they see as the problem. Ben Gray for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Georgia lawmakers try to identify critical race theory in schools

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COVID cases in metro Atlanta schools remain high, even as omicron slows

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Students arrive at Norcross Elementary School on Jan. 10, 2022. Masks are required in Gwinnett County Public Schools. (Miguel Martinez for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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COVID and masks: Some metro Atlanta school districts are relaxing rules

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Fayette County Schools lifted its mask mandate in buildings on Tuesday, but maintained the face coverings requirement on buses.

Fayette County making masks optional in schools, mandatory on buses

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Politics

November 30, 2021 Atlanta: Sylvia Cook-Lopez votes at Antioch Baptist Church North located at 540 Cameron M. Alexander Blvd, NW in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. The runoff election that will set the course for the next four years at Atlanta City Hall will be decided Tuesday, as voters went to the polls to elect the city's 61st mayor. Tuesday caps off a historic election cycle that saw the incumbent mayor forego a re-election bid and a former mayor seek a third term at City Hall. The race ends with two City Council colleagues on the ballot for mayor: Councilman Andre Dickens and City Council President Felicia Moore, who both have big plans to bolster the ranks of the police department, improve basic city services and reopen City Hall to the public. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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U.S. Senate candidate Kelvin King speaks at the Georgia GOP convention at Jekyll Island on Saturday, June 5, 2021. (Photo: Nathan Posner for The Atlanta-Journal-Constitution)

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OPINION: How to run for Senate when you’re not Herschel Walker

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has supported a change in rules that has allowed U.S. representatives to vote remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy sued to end the practice, but the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the case. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Supreme Court upholds House remote voting decried by GOP but used by all1h ago

Legislation filed Monday in the Georgia Senate would require pregnant women to see a doctor in person before being able to obtain the abortion pill mifepristone.

GOP senator files bill that would ban mailing of abortion pill

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A panel of Fulton County judges on Monday cleared the way for a special grand jury to be used as part of District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation of former President Donald Trump and his efforts to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue speaks via video monitor during a rally ahead of a Senate runoff in Dalton, Georgia on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (Sandy Huffaker/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

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David Perdue in quarantine after testing positive for COVID

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Crime

Anyone with information about the light-colored SUV or its occupants is asked to contact police.

BREAKING: Police arrest suspect accused of killing 6-month-old boy

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Multiple vehicles were damaged by bullets Sunday night when gunfire rang out in the parking lot of Loca Luna on Amsterdam Avenue. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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Owners terminate Loca Luna’s lease after latest gunfire incident

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A Vienna mother has been charged with murder after the discovery of human remains in Cordele, according to the GBI. Keara Cotton, 27, also was charged with concealing the death of another and cruelty to children in the second degree, the GBI said in a news release. Jayceon Mathis, her son, reportedly has been missing for months. (GBI)

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Georgia mom charged with murder after human remains found; son missing

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Atlanta police found multiple spent shell casings near a popular downtown restaurant and hookah lounge Tuesday morning. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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Police investigating shooting near downtown Atlanta lounge

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Police said the child was caught in the crossfire of a shooting in northwest Atlanta. He was identified by his family as Grayson Matthew Fleming-Gray of Cumming. (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)

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‘This one hurts’: Mayor, chief frustrated after 6-month-old shot dead in NW Atlanta

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Fingerprint technician William Boyd inspects fingerprints and potential fingerprint matches at the Georgia Crime Information Center, a division of the Georgia Bureau of Investigations, in Decatur Monday, Aug. 15, 2011. The system is usually automated, but it will flag certain prints with anomalies so they can be looked at with a human eye. More employers, both private and public, are using background checks to screen potential job candidates.

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Key information missing from Georgia’s criminal records database

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The man was killed on a busy section of Washington Road, flanked on one side by a gas station and Piggly Wiggly, and on the other side by an apartment complex.

Man shot, killed in front of East Point grocery store

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Alleged Marietta townhome shooter was charged in 2016 psychiatric facility incident

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