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Giant banners take up a room at the Anne Frank exhibit, which opened Feb. 9, in what could be its new permanent home in the Parkside Shopping Center in Sandy Springs.
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Sandy Springs residents want more information on controversial cultural arts center
Two North Fulton students from Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School in Sandy Springs are receiving scholarships for theater- and performing arts from the Shuler Awards. (Courtesy ArtsBridge Foundation)
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Two Sandy Springs students receive ArtsBridge Foundation scholarships
Sandy Springs will be testing fire hydrants throughout the city beginning May 1. (Courtesy City of Sandy Springs)
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Michael Farmer was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Sandy Springs. Dominique Houston has been charged in his death.
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Sandy Springs will offer the first Mother-Son Dance 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 8. (Courtesy Marko Milivojevic via Pixnio)
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Sandy Springs introduces first mother-son dance
Police blocked multiple lanes of Ga. 400 in Sandy Springs to investigate a series of hit-and-run crashes Tuesday morning.
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Driver charged with DUI in multiple hit-and-runs that blocked Ga. 400
A UPS driver delivers packages in Philadelphia, Monday, April 26, 2021. A surge in the volume of deliveries that arrived with the start of the pandemic has not eased at UPS, where consolidated average daily volume jumped 14.3% in the first quarter. The Atlanta company on Tuesday, April 27 posted earnings of $4.79 billion, or $5.47 per share. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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The man was walking his dog on Hammond Drive near Glenridge Drive just before 8 p.m. Sunday when they were hit, police said.
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Police: Woman fleeing hit-and-run hits, kills Sandy Springs man walking dog
Ashley Wang (right) embroidered and sold T-shirts to raise money to buy meals for frontline health care workers.
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Sandy Springs senior lauded for outreach
One person was charged with reckless conduct after a boy was injured when he accidentally shot himself while playing with a handgun in Sandy Springs, police said.
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Gun owner charged in Sandy Springs boy’s accidental shooting
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Authorities investigated the wreck in the westbound lanes of I-285 at Riverside Drive.
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Driver seriously injured in crash that shut down I-285 in Sandy Springs
An image of Bumpin' the Mango performing at Candler Park in 2016. Credit: Emily Butler Photography
North Fulton County
Sandy Springs opens concert series with no COVID restrictions
Ethan King, technician with Compass Security Solutions, checks the main alarm panel at a car dealership in Sandy Springs on Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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A child was injured in what police believe was an accidental shooting at a Sandy Springs apartment complex Thursday afternoon.
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Child injured in accidental shooting at Sandy Springs apartment complex
Giant banners in a room at the Anne Frank in the World exhibit that was held at Parkside Shopping Center in Sandy Springs before the pandemic. Credit: Phil Skinner
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Residents push back on Sandy Springs plan for new cultural arts center
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms holds a news conference on her decision not to seek a second term Friday, May 7, 2021, at City Hall. JOHN SPINK / AJC
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms holds a news conference May 7, 2021, on her decision not to seek a second term. “In the same way that it was very clear to me almost five years ago that I should run for mayor of Atlanta, it is abundantly clear to me today that it is time to pass the baton on to someone else,” Bottoms said at an emotional news conference at City Hall. JOHN SPINK / AJC
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Winnie Harlow arrives at an afterparty celebrating the cast of "United States vs. Billie Holiday" at Spring Place on Sunday, April 25, 2021, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Parkgoers walk around the Memorial Lawn at Stone Mountain Park. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Photos: Confederate imagery at Stone Mountain Park
Flowers and a card are left near the scene of an early Sunday fatal shooting at Somers House Tavern in Kenosha, Wis., on Sunday, April 18 2021. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)
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Brittany Mitchell, 30, stands in the midst of damage from an EF4 tornado that ripped through her neighborhood in March and damaged her family’s Newnan home. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Photos: Newnan family loses home and school to tornado
In March, an EF4 tornado tore through Heard, Coweta and Fayette counties, packing 170 m.p.h. winds, and leaving more than 1,7000 houses damaged. Several weeks later, residents in Newnan continue cleanup efforts. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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Photos: Newnan picks up the pieces after F4 tornado
Flash bombs are used by authorities to disperse a crowd gathered in protest at the Brooklyn Center Police Department, late Sunday, April 11, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minn. The family of Daunte Wright, 20, told a crowd that he was shot by police Sunday before getting back into his car and driving away, then crashing the vehicle several blocks away. The family said Wright was later pronounced dead. (Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via AP)
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Atlanta’s proposed Public Safety Training Center will be located across 150 acres of the old Atlanta Prison Farm, which is city-owned and located east of the city in unincorporated DeKalb County. ALL GALLERY TEXT BY WILBORN NOBLES
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FILE - In this Wednesday Aug. 2, 2017 file photo, Britain's Prince Philip, in his role as Captain General of the Royal Marines, attends a Parade on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace, in central London. Buckingham Palace says Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 99. (Hannah McKay/Pool via AP, File)
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Mays High School teacher Sonja Lewis reacts after learning she won a free trip including airfare and hotel accommodations to any Delta Vacations destination within the U.S., Mexico, or the Caribbean on Friday, May 7 2021. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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Jamari Ruffin-Daniels, 8, wrote his first book about how the coronavirus pandemic ruined the fun of school. (Contributed/Nakesha Jackson)
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The DeKalb County School District received a donation of 100 Healthe AIR ceiling troffers to the district. The technology, valued at $100,000, uses UV lighting to help inactivate harmful microbes in the air. Credit: Healthe, Inc.
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Gov. Brian Kemp, surrounded by state legislators and law enforcement officers, signs a bill banning police budget cuts into law at the Barrow County sheriffs office gun range on Friday, May 7, 2021.
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President Joe Biden got a positive review in the latest Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll of registered voters in Georgia. But Major League Baseball got a thumbs down for moving this year's All-Star game out of metro Atlanta to protest the state's new voting law. (Drew Hallowell/Getty Images/TNS)
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William “Billy” Scott, pictured here in his 80s, was killed Monday morning during a DeKalb County home invasion. The World War II veteran was 97.
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Ronnie Floyd Maxwell was released from state prison in 2018 after serving time for aggravated child molestation.
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Booking photos released by the Glynn County Detention Center show, from left, Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan. The three men were indicted on federal hate crime and attempted kidnapping charges in connection with the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was shot to death while jogging through a South Georgia neighborhood last year, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (Glynn County Detention Center via The New York Times) -- EDITORIAL USE ONLY --
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The stabbing occurred in the 200 block of College Avenue in Athens.
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LaGrange Police Chief Lou Dekmar took the helm of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in 2017. Dekmar called on law enforcement officials to acknowledge past wrongs to promote community trust. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
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The head-on crash happened just after midnight in the northbound lanes of the Perimeter.
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The teen was shot during an argument over water sales near Mercedes-Benz Stadium, police said.
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One man has been charged in Thursday's armed robbery and shooting at Town Center mall.
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