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Divine Wind III by Jim Gallucci can be found at Riverside West as part of ArtAround Roswell's 2022-2023 Sculpture Tour. (Courtesy Roswell Arts Fund)

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Roswell sculpture tour delights the creative senses
Leadership Johns Creek recently graduated the Class of 2021-22, recognizing their successful completion of the program. (Courtesy Leadership Johns Creek)

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Leadership Johns Creek graduates latest class
Milton applied for and was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources through the National Parks Service to construct a permanent restroom building at Providence Park. (Courtesy City of Milton)

Milton to install permanent restroom at Providence Park
Roswell has hired Atkins North America for TSPLOST program management services. (Courtesy Atkins North America)

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Roswell hires TSPLOST management services
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (L) talks at a press conference with Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat (R) and Atlanta Police Chief Rodney Bryant in Atlanta on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (Steve Schaefer / steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

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Fulton DA won’t use ‘precious tax dollars’ prosecuting abortion cases
Roswell has accepted a donation from North Fulton Community Charities to install a pedestrian crossing to connect NFCC facilities on either side of Elkins Road. (Courtesy City of Roswell)

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Nonprofit donates to construct Roswell pedestrian crosswalk
Syringes with Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shots for children aged 6 months to 4 years old are shown next to vaccine cards, Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Meet NFL greats, get COVID-19 vaccine Saturday in Fulton
A celebration outside the Supreme Court, Friday, June 24, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years — a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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Atlanta Mayor Dickens ‘sickened’ by Roe decision; area DAs vow not to prosecute
Cell Phones For Soldiers uses proceeds from donated cell phones to purchase international calling cards so troops can call home and to provide emergency funding to veterans. (Courtesy Cell Phones For Soldiers)

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Alpharetta nonprofit uses old cell phones for good
Johns Creek Public Works Department recently completed a new restroom and pavilion at Autrey Mill Nature Preserve. (Courtesy City of Johns Creek)

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Johns Creek completes pavilion and restroom at Autry Mill
Ernest Baldwin lines up multilingual “I Voted” stickers at Unity Atlanta Church in Peachtree Corners on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, during the primary runoff. (Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Fulton elections board set to meet, certify runoff results Monday
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Cross won Grammy Awards for Record and Song of the Year for his hit “Sailing” as well as Album of the Year and Best New Artist at the ceremony honoring music in 1980. Photo: Melissa Ruggieri/AJC

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Christopher Cross among new season of shows at Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center
Alpharetta seeks subgrant extension for South Main study
Tickets going fast for Taste Around Town Alpharetta
New head of Fulton economic development named
Roswell will add a 2.5% service fee to credit card transactions beginning July 1. File Photo

Roswell adds fee for credit card payments
Sandy Springs couple starts college scholarship fund to help students in need
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Milton approves ARPA funds for premium pay
Park survey in Sandy Springs ends soon
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Eric Stirgus named education editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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A billboard along I-95 in Hollywood, Florida, on May 26, 2022, is part of an 80-billboard campaign to combat Florida's new "Parental Rights in Education" law, labeled "Don't say gay" by critics. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS)

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Georgia teen: School should be safe haven for students to say and be gay
Renowned musician Helen Kim (in red) leads a group of high school students through an intensive strings session at KSU's summer program.

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KSU summer program promotes the arts
In March, school and school security leaders from around Georgia met with Gov. Brian Kemp at the Governor's Mansion in Buckhead to share their safety concerns. Kemp spoke again about the issue Thursday at the conclusion of a school safety conference in Columbus led by the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. (AJC file photo)

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Georgia putting more money into school safety
Fulton County Schools is holding a job fair 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 25, at North Springs High School in Sandy Springs. (Courtesy of Fulton County Public Schools)

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Fulton schools seeking to hire 700 support employees
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Abortion rights activists marched from the Georgia Capitol to Underground Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022. The protest follows the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v Wade. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution Investigative reporters Alan Judd, left, and Willoughby Mariano, right, discuss their "Dangerous Dwellings" series with political reporter Greg Bluestein during a taping of the AJC's "Politically Georgia" podcast. (Jay.Black@ajc.com)

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AJC Podcast: Inside the Dangerous Dwellings investigation
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June 25, 2022 Atlanta - Attendees walk in a conference room during National Right to Life’s 51st convention at the Atlanta Airport Marriott Hotel in Atlanta on Saturday, June 25, 2022.(Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Georgia activists in abortion debate turn focus to November elections
Pro-life supporters celebrate outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022. - The US Supreme Court on Friday ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life. The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion and said individual states can permit or restrict the procedure themselves. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

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Georgia’s health safety net in spotlight as abortion ban looms
In March, school and school security leaders from around Georgia met with Gov. Brian Kemp at the Governor's Mansion in Buckhead to share their safety concerns. Kemp spoke again about the issue Thursday at the conclusion of a school safety conference in Columbus led by the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. (AJC file photo)

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Georgia putting more money into school safety
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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Georgia abortion rights advocates join protests after Roe v. Wade overturned
Crime
Steve Sadow, defense attorney, is offering free legal services to anyone who is prosecuted due to abortions.

Atlanta lawyers will rep anyone prosecuted for abortions for free
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Darlene Nicole Brister, 40, was charged with two counts of malice murder and is being held without bond in a Paulding County jail. Her charges stem from a house fire Friday night in which three children died and another was hospitalized with burn wounds, Paulding fire officials confirmed.

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Deputies: 4th child dies after domestic disturbance linked to fire at home
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Atlanta police are investigating three different shootings and stabbings that occurred Saturday morning. Two people were killed and one man was critically injured in the incidents, which are unrelated.

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2 dead, 1 critically injured at 3 unrelated Atlanta crime scenes
A game warden for the Department of Natural Resources scours Lake Lanier searching for a drowning victim this week.

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Man dies at Lake Lanier, marking 3rd drowning in reservoir this week
A 16-year-old girl is accused of trafficking a younger teenager, according to Canton police.

Police: 13-year-old sex trafficking victim rescued during Canton traffic stop
According to law enforcement, game wardens were called by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office at about 9 p.m. about a possible triple drowning at the Amity Recreation Area in Lincolnton.

3 siblings drown in Clarks Hill Lake just north of Augusta
The shootings were reported around the same time Wednesday at a gas station and a neighborhood a mile apart in the Lithonia area.

3 wanted for questioning in teen’s fatal shooting at DeKalb gas station
Atlanta police are investigating a person shot call Friday morning at the Alexan Buckhead Village on Pharr Road.

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Police: Man shot by maintenance worker in parking deck of Buckhead apartments
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