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Johns Creek will take its leadership to an annual retreat Jan. 28 and 29 to establish goals and priorities for the year ahead. (Courtesy City of Johns Creek)

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Johns Creek city council to start new year with retreat
Nathan Louis Highsmith, 25, of Canton, was arrested Thursday at Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital. (Credit: Sandy Springs Police Department)

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Murder suspect arrested by Sandy Springs police inside hospital
Fact vs. fiction: Official sources for coronavirus news

Map: Coronavirus deaths and cases in Georgia (updated Jan. 21)
The Milton Police Department has launched a new digital fingerprint scheduling system for alcohol pouring permits and background check appointments. (Courtesy Pixabay)

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Milton police launch new digital fingerprint system
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Randall Toussaint is the new economic development director in Johns Creek. Courtesy Johns Creek

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Johns Creek hires new economic development director
MARTA announces some train and bus trips are canceled on Tuesday. A spike in COVID-19 among employees has contributed to disruptions in metro Atlanta transit services in recent weeks. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Passengers stranded as COVID forces metro Atlanta transit services to cancel trips
The Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce recently announced its 2022 Ambassadors. (Courtesy Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce)

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Alpharetta Chamber selects 2022 Ambassadors
A local developer wants to change the character map area designation for a Peachtree Dunwoody Road residential property. Photo: Adrianne Murchison

Sandy Springs developer firms up housing plan for Peachtree Dunwoody Road
The North Fulton Master Gardeners in partnership with the UGA’s Fulton County Extension are continuing horticultural education through a series of six free virtual gardening lectures. The series begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6 with ‘Composting at Home.’ (Courtesy North Fulton Master Gardeners)

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North Fulton Master Gardeners announce Spring 2022 Gardening Lecture Series
Roswell has been recognized by the ARC with the Platinum level Green Communities Award. (Courtesy City of Roswell)

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Roswell recognized with highest level Green Communities Award
Northside Hospital Healthcare System is bringing its ScreenAtlanta Mobile Mammography Thursday, Jan. 27 outside Kroger at 12870 Highway 9 in Milton.

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Northside Hospital to bring mobile mammography to Milton
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The Fulton County Jail. (CASEY SYKES, CASEY.SYKES@AJC.COM) AJC FILE PHOTO

Fulton commissioners approve $1.2M to study cost, location of new jail
Volunteers with passion needed for iHeart Johns Creek Advisory Committee
Alpharetta approves nearly $500K for sidewalk repairs
Sandy Springs’ Community Assistance Center data proves ongoing need
People explore the new assembly hall at a ribbon cutting celebrating the new assembly hall and renovations at the Fulton County government building in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (Rebecca Wright for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Fulton OKs $1.25B budget, with money for elections and court backlog
Construction ongoing at Peachtree Dunwoody and Telford Place in Sandy Springs
The Southwestern taco pie is available from Southern Baked Pie Co., which has multiple metro area locations.

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This delicious metro Atlanta dish will keep you warm
Fulton gets grant to feed 260 seniors at home
Sandy Springs to host Roswell Road Safety Public Meeting
Roswell modifies policy to allow private security cameras in city right-of-way
MARTA CEO Jeffrey Parker speaks during a press conference last May. He died Friday night. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

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MARTA CEO Jeffrey Parker, 56, has died
Superica opening in West Midtown and more restaurant news from the week
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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

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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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Modern Buckhead dream home features art, custom touches throughout
2022 Best Nursing Schools for master's a degree

Emory University among top 5 nursing schools for master’s degree
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British scientist killed by stray bullet while visiting Atlanta area
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2 metro-area real estate agents convicted in mortgage fraud conspiracy
Education
Omicron is causing an uptick in admissions at children's hospitals

Opinion: As children’s COVID rates rise, should schools shift course?
Students at Lovin Elementary in Lawrenceville dissected reading passages during a day that transformed their classrooms into a "surgical" center.

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Students perform “reading surgery”
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
Parents who couldn’t get into the Cherokee County School Board meeting because the building reached capacity chant “No CRT!” during the meeting on May 20, 2021. Now Georgia lawmakers propose financial penalties for schools that teach about race in ways deemed inappropriate. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Critics say Georgia race bill threatens financial blow to schools
Politics
Keith Wilson said he moved from Cobb County "to get away from the Braves stadium." His 17-acre Rutledge farm now faces new growth and he posted a sign in his yard opposing the Rivian assembly plant on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. “Curtis Compton / Curtis.Compton@ajc.com”`

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Rivian’s Georgia electric vehicle plant sparks fears among neighbors
Governor Brian Kemp and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma celebrate with a fist bump after Verma announced that the Trump administration would approve both Georgia's health care "waiver" requests. (PHOTO by Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Georgia sues Biden administration over health waiver
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022, in advance of the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

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Man charged with threatening to kill Georgia election officials
This artist's sketch provided by Spaceport Camden shows the launchpad complex of the proposed Spaceport Camden in Camden County. Superior Court Judge Stephen Scarlett, on Thursday, has denied a request to stop Camden County from buying land for a planned spaceport near the Georgia coast, dealing the latest blow to opponents of the project. (Spaceport Camden via AP, File)

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Judge denies coastal residents’ attempt to block purchase of spaceport site
Former Senator David Perdue (R-GA) speaks at the Georgia GOP State Convention in Jekyll Island, Georgia on June 5th, 2021. Nathan Posner for the Atlanta-Journal-Constitution

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Politically Georgia: Perdue pitches election police force
Georgia's tax collections are up 18.1% over the first six months of the current fiscal year. (lamprey / E+ / Getty Images)

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Capitol Recap: Georgia tax collections show post-virus economy is still surging
Crime
Briana Crawford is charged with two counts of felony murder in a shooting that left two men dead near Stone Mountain. (Credit: DeKalb County Sheriff's Office)

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Woman charged in drug-related shooting that left 2 dead near Stone Mountain
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Fulton County sheriff’s deputy involved in shooting at his residence
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Atlanta police, shown at the scene of a Dec. 3 incident, investigated a shooting death after a man was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds early morning Saturday at the South Atlanta High School. (AJC file)

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Slain shooting victim found near high school in southeast Atlanta
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Deputies said the man fired at two off-duty police officers after being asked to leave the bar.

Man arrested, accused of shooting at police outside Ellenwood bar
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An unidentified man was shot an killed in northwest Atlanta early Saturday morning, according to authorities. (File)

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Police investigating fatal shooting in SW Atlanta
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Greg McMichael (from left), Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan were convicted in November of killing Ahmaud Arbery. They now face federal hate crime charges in the case.

Judge in Arbery death hate crimes case hears racial evidence
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Matthew Willson, 31, of England died early last Sunday after being shot inside a Brookhaven apartment, according to police. He had just arrived in Atlanta to visit his longtime girlfriend. (Credit: Brookhaven Police Department)

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‘It’s impossible to comprehend’: Scientist killed by stray bullet in Brookhaven
Saturday's Weather-Traffic. (Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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SATURDAY’S WEATHER-TRAFFIC: Cold temps, possibility of light snow in east Georgia
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