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ATL Overnight: 5 college students killed in crash
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By George Mathis
April 23, 2015- Two nursing students from the Atlanta area were among the five killed in a car accident in south Georgia. The women, all juniors at Georgia Southern, were killed Wednesday on I-16 about 20 miles from Savannah while traveling to their final clinical of the school year at St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital in Savannah.
- It may not be SEC football, but Georgia and South Carolina's competition to score jobs is still fierce. Our neighbor to the northeast has reportedly secured a $150 million loan to help attract Swedish automaker Volvo to the Charleston area. Meanwhile, in Georgia, officials are pulling strings to convince Volvo to set up shop on the Georgia coast.
- The Hawks are looking like winners. They beat the Brooklyn Nets to take a 2-0 series lead in the first round of the NBA playoffs and have finalized the team's sale to a billionaire philanthropist. Antony Ressler, 55, leads a group that will pay a bit less than $1 billion to acquire the franchise. Minority owners will include former NBA star Grant Hill, Marquis Jet co-founder Jesse Itzler and his wife Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx. AJC sports columnist Mark Bradley says the Hawks' long ownership nightmare may finally be over.
- The body of a recent Wheeler High graduate was pulled from the Chattahoochee River Wednesday. Niles Young, 20, of Smyrna, is the first person to drown in the river this year.
- The local jobs market is picking up. Metro Atlanta's unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent in March from 6.1 percent in February, the state labor department said Thursday. During the past year, metro Atlanta's unemployment rate has fallen from 7 percent.
- The Atlanta Braves got off to a fast start this season, but have lost five of their last seven games. The Braves lost 3-2 while visting the New York Mets Wednesday night.