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SUNDAY’S WEATHER-TRAFFIC: Rain could put a damper on Father’s Day plans
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SATURDAY’S WEATHER-TRAFFIC: Rain moves in as Tropical Storm Claudette approaches
Georgia officials plan to allow a private company to collect tolls on proposed I-285 express lanes in exchange for investment in the project. (AJC file photo)
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Turning I-285 tolls over to private firm comes with rewards, risks
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A Kids' Parade will be a part of Kennesaw's Salute to America Celebration on July 3. (Courtesy of Kennesaw)
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Kennesaw plans return of Salute to America Celebration
(L-R) Kennesaw Mayor Derek Easterling poses with Lewis family members Richard Lewis Kienel and Robert J. Kienel beside the new plaque on the historic Lewis House. (Courtesy of Kennesaw)
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Kennesaw dedicates Lewis House plaque
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THURSDAY’S WEATHER-TRAFFIC: Highs in the 80s as humidity remains low
The Cobb County police officer who was shot Sunday afternoon is back at home and doing well, authorities said.
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Cobb police officer released from hospital, ‘doing well’ after shooting
Alexander Phillip Guercia died Saturday night on a Cobb County road after investigators believe he lost control of the sports car he was driving and spun into a tree.
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Recent high school grad dies after crashing sports car on Kennesaw road
Georgia officials plan to allow a private company to collect tolls on proposed I-285 express lanes in exchange for investment in the project. (AJC file photo)
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Georgia to put I-285 tolls in private hands
The bus driver faces misdemeanor charges of simple assault and simple battery.
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Cobb school bus driver arrested, accused of assaulting 10-year-old student
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06/19/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - Hundreds of participants of the "OneRace Movement" listen to leaders inside Liberty Plaza, across the street form the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta, Friday, June 19, 2020. The group marched from Centennial Olympic Park to the State Capitol building. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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Juneteenth 2021: Some metro cities leave behind racist past to mark the holiday for first
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WEDNESDAY’S WEATHER-TRAFFIC: Lower humidity contributes to comfortable start
Special elections were held Tuesday in Cobb and Henry counties. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Follow results of Tuesday’s special elections in Cobb and Henry counties
The Cobb County School Board will hold another budget hearing at 10:30 a.m. Thursday after technical difficulties prevented the district from live-streaming or recording last week's meeting. Credit: CHRISTINA MATACOTTA FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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Cobb County schools budget hearing beset by ‘technical difficulties’
The Nathan Deal Judicial Center, which houses the Georgia Court of Appeals. (Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com)
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Court throws out $1.4 million verdict against Marietta abortion clinic
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Members of the Holly Springs community and neighboring police departments gather at Barrett Park for a candlelight vigil for Police Officer Joe Burson on Friday, June 18, 2021 after he was killed during a traffic stop earlier this week. Coworkers and friends of Marykate Burson, Joe’s wife, including Katie Beganovic, left, and sisters Gina and Angela Ruggiero gather to mourn their friend’s husband. The Ruggiero sisters have know Marykate since middle school. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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PHOTOS: Residents remember Holly Springs officer at vigil
06/18/2021 — Atlanta, Georgia — Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, June 18, 2021. Vice President Harris is visiting Atlanta to promote a White House initiative for the COVID-19 vaccine. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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PHOTOS: Vice President Kamala Harris visits Atlanta to promote vaccinations
06/11/2021 — Atlanta, Georgia — Alex Banister prepares samples of The After Bar, a CBD recovery protein bar, at the companies booth during the USA-CBD Expo at the Georgia World Congress Center, Friday, June 11, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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PHOTOS: Hundreds of vendors peddle CBD products at Atlanta convention
Terry Hall uses a cloth to wipe paint from an underpass as he works on Grant Street SE on Thursday, June 10, 2021. Painters filled in lines left after the design was placed on the walls yesterday. (Christine Tannous / christine.tannous@ajc.com)
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PHOTOS: Grant Street Mural
Incumbent Keisha Lance Bottoms' May 7 announcement that she wouldn't seek a second term as Atlanta mayor opened the field for candidates looking to succeed her in the city's top office. Here's a look at who's running. Photo: John Spink / AJC
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Who's running to succeed Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms?
May 27, 2021 Sandy Springs - Aerial photo shows construction site of I-285 interchange at Ga. 400 in Sandy Springs on Tuesday, May 27, 2021. The view is looking south on Georgia 400, with I-285 passing left to right in the image and Atlanta skyline on the horizon. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Aerial photos: I-285 at Georgia 400 construction update
When it opened in June 1949, Atlanta's Starlight Drive-In had a 900-car capacity and was hailed as the city's premier new outdoor theater. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHS / GSU
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Flashback Photos: The golden days of Atlanta's drive-in theaters
05/21/2021 — Atlanta, Georgia — United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, center, receives a tour of an underground tunnel for the expansion of the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport plane train tunnel at the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Friday, May 21, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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PHOTOS: Buttigieg visits Georgia to tout Biden’s scaled-back infrastructure plan
President Joe Biden presents the Medal of Honor to retired U.S. Army Col. Ralph Puckett, in the East Room of the White House, Friday, May 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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PHOTOS: Georgia veteran receives Medal of Honor
May 21, 2021 Atlanta: Firefighters continues to pour water on a stubborn warehouse fire throughout Friday morning, May 21, 2021. A massive overnight fire at a northwest Atlanta warehouse at one point grew so intense that it threatened the firefighters battling it from several stories in the air. The crews had to evacuate their ladder trucks when flames got too close, Atlanta fire spokesman Sgt. Cortez Stafford told Channel 2 Action News. The blaze was under control Friday morning, but crews were still dousing hot spots at the storage warehouse in the 400 block of Bishop Street. Huge flames, a series of loud explosions and heavy plumes of smoke could be seen and heard in the area west of Atlantic Station for several hours overnight. The fire spread to adjacent warehouses in the business strip and threatened a nearby apartment complex before it was contained. “Flames were above the rooftops,” witness Matthew Payne told Channel 2. “It was one of the craziest things I’ve seen in a while.” The fire was reported about 11:25 p.m. Thursday. It took 75 firefighters and multiple apparatus to bring it under control, Stafford told the news station. The first arriving crews were unable to get inside to check for injuries until they knocked down the flames. “There was all the explosions happening from inside the building,” Stafford said from the scene. “Unknown what those were, perhaps propane tanks.” Stafford said they had to pull their ladder trucks back as the fire intensified. “Because that fire moved so fast up under their ladder, and we had fire coming up under them, so they had to evacuate the ladder pretty quickly and move the apparatus because it was about to catch on fire,” he said. During the height of the blaze, firefighting efforts were further hampered by an impatient driver trying to access the Radiant West Midtown apartments, the fire department said on Twitter. Crews were “in the crucial phase” of preventing fire from spreading to the co
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PHOTOS: Massive warehouse fire triggers explosions, evacuations near Atlantic Station
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The veranda of Martha and Jean-Francois Morizur’s home looks out over their backyard and pool area. A sofa, chair and coffee table from Wayfair provide seating around the outdoor fireplace, and the fleur-de-lis wood and iron art above the fireplace from Hobby Lobby ties the outdoor decor into the French style of the interior of the home. Text by Shannon Dominy. Photo by Reynolds Rogers.
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The International Charter Academy of Georgia has about 165 students in a Japanese immersion curriculum.
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Academy focuses on Japanese immersion
A new RAND Corporation survey released this week — “Job-Related Stress Threatens the Teacher Supply: Key Findings from the 2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey” — found nearly 1 in 4 teachers may leave the job by the end of the current school year.
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New survey: 1 in 4 U.S. teachers may quit
Marietta City Schools' fiscal year 2022 budget totals $117 million and includes raises for employees ranging from 6% to 10.4%. Credit: Marietta City Schools
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Marietta schools budget includes raises for employees
Kennesaw State University Nursing Student Julia Taylor prepares a single does of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for a patient at a drive thru vaccination in the outdoor arena at Jim Miller Park in Marietta on Feb. 3, 2021. Gwinnett County Public Schools and the Gwinnett, Newton, Rockdale Health Departments are partnering to offer COVID-19, meningitis and Tdap vaccines to students and families. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Gwinnett school district, health department offering multiple vaccines
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Georgia officials plan to allow a private company to collect tolls on proposed I-285 express lanes in exchange for investment in the project. (AJC file photo)
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Turning I-285 tolls over to private firm comes with rewards, risks
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U.S. Catholic bishops OK steps toward possible rebuke of Biden
06/18/2021 — Atlanta, Georgia — Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, June 18, 2021. Vice President Harris is visiting Atlanta to promote a White House initiative for the COVID-19 vaccine. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Harris urges COVID-19 vaccines in Georgia: ‘It will save your life’
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‘Traitor!’ | Mike Pence heckled at conservative political event
Local families have mixed feelings about whether children should still have to wear mask to school
Politics
OPINION: In Buckhead’s divorce from Atlanta, who gets the kids?
January 5, 2021 Atlanta: Voters lined up to cast ballots on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021 at the Park Tavern located at 500 10th St NE in Atlanta. Georgia’s long moment in the national spotlight culminated Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, when state voters cast their votes to determine which party would control the U.S. Senate. Georgia voters also voted to elect a member of the state Public Service Commission, which regulates energy and utility rates and issues. The two most expensive Senate races in history saw more than $833 million been spent by the four campaigns and outside groups supporting them, blanketing the airwaves and stuffing mailboxes across the state. Much of that money has come from organizations with no direct connection to Georgia. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
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Georgia releases list of 102K voter registrations to be canceled
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National Politics
Biden’s silence on executions adds to death penalty disarray
01/04/2021 — Atlanta, Georgia — Former Georgia gubernatorial Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams makes remarks during a Georgia Democrat U.S. Senate campaign rally in Atlanta’s Summerhill neighborhood, Monday, January 4, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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The Jolt: Stacey Abrams’ West Virginia wobble on Manchin’s voting rights compromise
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SATURDAY’S WEATHER-TRAFFIC: Rain moves in as Tropical Storm Claudette approaches
Five people were taken to the hospital and dozens of residents were displaced by the massive fire.
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DeKalb residents leap from 2nd story to escape massive blaze
Members of the Holly Springs community and neighboring police departments gather at Barrett Park for a candlelight vigil for Police Officer Joe Burson on Friday, June 18, 2021 after he was killed during a traffic stop earlier this week. Coworkers and friends of Marykate Burson, Joe’s wife, including Katie Beganovic, left, and sisters Gina and Angela Ruggiero gather to mourn their friend’s husband. The Ruggiero sisters have know Marykate since middle school. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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‘He will always be a part of us’: Residents remember Holly Springs officer at vigil
Chris Canady, who has worked as a HERO operator since August 2014, was hit by a tractor-trailer June 9.
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HERO operator recovering after hit-and-run on I-75 in Clayton
Two men were killed and one was seriously injured in three separate crashes in Cobb County on Thursday and Friday.
Cobb County
2 motorists killed, 1 injured in 3 Cobb crashes
A Georgia trooper ran his patrol car into the passenger side of a car being driven by an alleged DUI driver early Friday, the State Patrol said.
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Trooper crashes patrol car into wrong-way vehicle, suspected DUI driver
A 43-year-old man was found dead early Friday after being shot by a Douglasville police officer, the GBI said.
Crime & Public Safety
GBI: Man found dead in woods hours after being shot by Douglasville officer
February 10, 2021 Atlanta: A double shooting in the southbound lanes of I-85 in Midtown left one man dead and wreaked havoc on Wednesday morning’s commute on Feb, 10, 2021. The fatal shooting brought traffic to a standstill about 5:15 a.m. just north of the Brookwood interchange. All lanes were shut down for about four hours as police investigated, leading to massive delays in Midtown, Buckhead and all through the northern suburbs, according to the WSB 24-hour Traffic Center. Drivers stuck behind the closure did not move for more than two hours before authorities began turning cars around. Backups stretched all the way to the Ga. 400 merge. An off-duty Jonesboro police officer discovered a dark-colored sedan near the entrance to I-75 North about 5:15 a.m. and found two men with gunshot wounds inside, Atlanta police Capt. Jason Smith said from the scene. One man was pronounced dead. The other was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and survived his injuries. The officer initially thought he had come across a wreck, but quickly called for backup and tried to help the victims, Smith said. It wasn’t immediately clear Wednesday morning where the shots were fired from. Detectives are still working to piece together what prompted the fatal shooting and identify a suspect. Smith said detectives are trying to interview the surviving victim to find out exactly what happened. “This does not appear to be a random act,” Smith said. “It appears to be a dispute that had escalated.” All lanes reopened about 9:15 a.m. when police finally cleared the crime scene. “We always hate when we have to do that,” Smith said when asked about shutting down the interstate. “Unfortunately, we have to make sure that we process the crime scene appropriately, and it does take time.” (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
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Shootings on metro Atlanta roadways this year have killed 13, injured others
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