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January 16, 2022 Lawrenceville - Drivers navigate Scenic Highway in Lawrenceville as snow falls on Sunday, January 16, 2022. Snowfall continues to move south of I-285 and south Fulton and Coweta counties could see up to 2 inches of snow by Sunday evening. Major impacts near Lake Lanier and into the North Georgia mountains are being felt and certain spots could see up to 10 inches of snow. As of around noon, snow is moving through Troup and Coweta counties, as Fayette and Clayton counties still patiently wait for some flurries amidst the rain and some wintry mix. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Xavier Jordan loads non-woven material for faces masks on production line 12 at Medline on Monday, Sept 20, 2021, in Lithia Springs. Medline has grown dramatically from 2 production lines and 20 employees to 12 production lines and nearly 500 employees. “Curtis Compton / Curtis.Compton@ajc.com”

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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

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jonathan E. Gierke poses for a recruit training graduation photo at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, May 18, 2021. Lance Cpl. Gierke, 19, from Lawrenceville, Georgia, was a landing support specialist with Combat Logistics Battalion 24, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group. He was pronounced dead by a competent medical authority at the scene of a tactical vehicle mishap on January 19, 2022. Photo courtesy of MCCS Recruit Photo at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina.

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Dick Williams in 2004 in London with a newspaper, a medium he always loved. Williams was a fixture in Atlanta journalism for decades. CONTRIBUTED

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Atlanta journalist Dick Williams dies at 77

This is a screenshot from the last Stonecrest Development Authority meeting to take place.

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Stonecrest authority in chaos after $750M bond deals

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

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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Former state Sen. Vincent Fort announced Thursday that he will challenge U.S. Rep. David Scott in the Democratic primary. BOB ANDRES / BANDRES@AJC.COM

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Vincent Fort is challenging David Scott for U.S. House seat

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Collins Hill grad dies in Marines tactical vehicle accident

Actor-comedian Louie Anderson appears at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, 2016. Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File

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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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Multiple vehicles, including a dump truck and three tractor-trailers, were involved in the wreck on I-85 South near Flat Shoals Road. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and his daughter Bailey Dickens depart Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia on January 11th, 2022 after welcoming the President and Vice President to the city. (Nathan Posner for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens speaks at a media roundtable on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022.

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The Gwinnett County Police Department is accepting applications for the next Citizens Police Academy session. (Courtesy Gwinnett County Police Department)

Gwinnett police taking applications for next citizens academy

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Prisons have always been dangerous places. Today, they are murderous. In November, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found at least 53 inmates in Georgia prisons had been homicide victims in the previous 22 months, more than twice that of the previous two years. (Vino Wong / vwong@ajc.com)

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December 1, 2021 Atlanta - Asya Morgan (left) and Ali Abdulrab talk in front of the mural of the murder victim Abdulrab's sister, Mariam, on Wylie Street near the Krog Street tunnel on Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Ali Abdulrab and Asya Morgan have become activists seeking to strengthen the way the state oversees sex offenders. This comes in the wake of the murder of Abdulrab's sister, Mariam, over the summer. She was a bartender who was abducted in front of her southeast Atlanta home and shot and killed. Her accused killer is Demarcus Binkley, a convicted sex offender who was out on probation. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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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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Acworth events coming soon in February will include the Special Olympics Georgia Polar Plunge on Feb. 19 to raise money for about 27,000 Special Olympics Georgia athletes. (Courtesy of Acworth)

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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

Members of the Charity Guild of Johns Creek undertake seasonal collections to support the underserved residents of the community.

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Charity guild projects support community

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”

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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.

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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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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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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