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Vendors and stages are set up in Piedmont Park for this weekend's return of the free family-friendly BeREGGAE Music & Arts Festival. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution file photo)

Free family-friendly BeREGGAE fest returns to Piedmont Park this weekend

Officers were called to a home on Silvery Way in a development called Tapp Farm after getting reports of the home invasion just after 12:30 a.m. Friday, Powder Springs police said.

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Police ID woman arrested in Powder Springs home invasion

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Atlanta police Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. (left) and interim police Chief Darin Schierbaum (right) speak at a media briefing in Old Fourth Ward's Central Park following an apparent murder-suicide Aug. 4.

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Police: High-rise apartment employee killed by tenant in outburst of anger

UPS and its pilots union have struck a tentative agreement on a two-year labor contract extension. (Dreamstime/TNS)

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UPS pilots ratify two-year labor contract extension

A crowd gathered before a public meeting of the DeKalb County Board of Education meeting at the DeKalb County School District headquarters in Stone Mountain. Education is one of the sectors Leadership DeKalb draws its members from. (Miguel Martinez/For the AJC)

Leadership DeKalb names members of Class of 2023

Child survives being hit by a train, Atlanta police say

Child injured after being hit by train in SW Atlanta

Man who shot, killed himself after leading police on chase was also murder suspect, APD says

Atlanta murder suspect kills himself following police chase, cops say

August 9, 2022 Atlanta - Photograph shows the site of the proposed Atlanta public safety training center at the site of the old Atlanta prison farm in Atlanta on Tuesday, August 9 2022. A growing number of southeast Atlanta neighborhoods are speaking out against the proposal to build a massive training center for police officers and firefighters on forested land in DeKalb County. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Training center? Land swap? Film studio? An explainer

August 9, 2022 Atlanta - Aerial photograph shows the site of the proposed Atlanta public safety training center at the site of the old Atlanta prison farm in Atlanta on Tuesday, August 9 2022. Key Road shows in foreground. A growing number of southeast Atlanta neighborhoods are speaking out against the proposal to build a massive training center for police officers and firefighters on forested land in DeKalb County. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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‘Forest defenders’ use extreme tactics in fight to ‘stop cop city’

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Atlanta's projected high is 88 degrees Friday. It might be a good idea to bring an umbrella just in case, but Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Brian Monahan said rain gear will be obsolete this weekend.

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FRIDAY’S WEATHER: Rain, humidity on the way out ahead of nice weekend

MARTA says Five Points renovation won’t hinder World Cup crowds

Atlanta school board advised to consider getting rid of 16 properties

Following ACLU complaint, Fulton to host voting on college campuses

Flan de Caramelo from the menu of Casa Robles.

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MAP: All the restaurants that have opened so far in metro Atlanta in 2022

MARTA’s Five Points station to get major face-lift

Hartsfield-Jackson’s Concourse D widening project to cost $1.4 billion

Atlanta marks 100 homicide cases for 2022, ahead of last year’s pace

Teen killed in accidental shooting at South Atlanta house party, police say

Review: Bad luck at Buckhead’s Brassica

Atlanta interior designer transforms historic 1915 warehouse into glamorous work space

THURSDAY’S WEATHER: Another day of storms before changes arrive for the weekend

Georgia Tech will renovate lab space used by the engineering and computing colleges. (Courtesy of Georgia Tech)

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Regents authorize $4.5 million upgrade of Georgia Tech building

Kemp touts record-breaking jobs year, buoyed by EV factories

Feds: Jailer at Atlanta’s U.S. Penitentiary charged with PPP fraud

Hartsfield-Jackson’s long-awaited hotel project canceled by developer

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Education

Members of Northview High's Psi Alpha High School National Honor Society in Psychology planned a spring bubble tea sale that raised more than $1,300.

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School Club supports community

Jejna Mujkic, school staff, greets students arriving for the first day of school at Seckinger High School in Buford on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. All Gwinnett County employees were required to wear masks in school buildings to start the year. The requirement was lifted the second week of classes. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Masks are again optional for Gwinnett schools employees

Angelina Jolie dropped off her daughter Zahara (second from left) at Spelman College in downtown Atlanta this week. In this photo, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt (from left), Zahara Jolie-Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Maddox Jolie-Pitt and Knox Jolie-Pitt pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "Eternals" on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in London. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

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Angelina Jolie drops daughter off at Spelman College

Jonathan Peraza-Campos, a local educator, speaks during a back-to-school rally for Georgia educators on Saturday, July 23, 2022, at Piedmont Park in Atlanta. Teachers, community members and students gathered to speak against new state legislative action banning selected books from school libraries and prohibiting the teaching of divisive concepts in U.S. History. (Christina Matacotta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Teacher: We have to reclaim our power and public school mission

Politics

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Wills listens to Judge Robert McBurney talk to the jurors at Fulton County Court during the selection of the special grand jury to investigate allegations that former President Donald Trump criminally interfered with Georgia’s elections in 2020. Monday, May 2, 2022. Miguel Martinez /miguel.martinezjimenez@ajc.com

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Fulton DA’s Trump probe enters more combative phase

Alternative Energy Southeast employees Aaron Basto, center, and Russell McCune, right, installs one of eighteen solar panels to the roof of a resident Tuesday, June 7, 2022, in Ellenwood, Ga. (Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com)

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Climate bill could be a game changer for Georgia solar. Here’s why

Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp race for Georgia governor

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Abrams and Kemp chart rival economic strategies in Georgia

U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., speaks to reporters outside of the U.S. House of Representatives for a press conference with the Congressional Progressive Caucus regarding the passage of a health care, tax and climate change measure that's now headed to the desk of President Joe Biden. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times).

House passes federal health care, tax and climate change bill

Gov. Brian P. Kemp on Friday announced a $240 million grant program to help expand internet service in rural Georgia that will be funded through federal COVID-19 relief money. That's on top of $400 million he announced earlier for boosting rural broadband, also using federal funds. Curtis Compton / Curtis Compton@ajc.com

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Kemp plows more federal COVID relief money into rural broadband

05/07/2019 -- Atlanta, Georgia -- Anti-Abortion protestors rally outside of the Georgia State Capitol building following the signing of HB 481 in Atlanta, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed the bill, surrounded by supporters and Georgia lawmakers, in his office Tuesday morning. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

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The Jolt: Doctors at Democratic event slam new abortion law: ‘A crime against humanity’

Crime

A father in DeKalb County was robbed at gunpoint and kidnapped last week, according to police. One of two suspects is now in custody.

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1 of 2 suspects apprehended in armed robbery, kidnapping of DeKalb dad

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An 11-year-old boy was hospitalized after being hit by a car while crossing a busy Paulding County road Friday, according to police.

11-year-old boy struck while crossing busy Paulding County road

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Four people were shot Saturday night in Clayton County, according to police. One of them died.

Clayton County shooting leaves 3 injured, 1 dead

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This image from police bodycam video shows Antoine Sims, 24, outside a Cobb County McDonald's. He called 911 about cold fries, but police arrested him after discovering he had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in a homicide case.

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Murder suspect calls cops over cold fries, then arrested on active warrant

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Trial begins in 2020 shooting death of 7-year-old Kennedy Maxie

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A Cobb County police officer stands outside at a shooting scene on Olive Spring Road. (Photo: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Two people found dead outside Cobb home in suspected murder-suicide

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Husband of missing Indiana woman found not guilty in separate Coweta stalking case

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WATCH: Convicted felon arrested while riding scooter armed in Atlanta, cops say

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