News for Metro Atlanta and Region
Milton drivers face 5 months of detours for bridge construction, GDOT says
A bridge that opened more than 60 years ago on Freemanville Road in Milton will be closed for at least the next five months because of a $2.9 million project to replace it.
Wedding night helicopter crash near Dawsonville leaves 2 dead, 1 alive
The crash near Dawsonville left two men dead and one woman who survived. Their identities have not been released.
Woman fatally stabbed on MARTA train identified; man arrested.
A 66-year-old Atlanta woman was fatally stabbed on a MARTA train in what officials called a “senseless” incident. A 25-year-old was arrested.
Northlake Mall retailers told to vacate. Is a sale and redevelopment next?
It was an abrupt decision, one that led one shop owner to call the general manager. The reason given: the mall had been sold.
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He’s 104 and landed on a Normandy beach after D-Day. He has stories to tell.
Georgia's Avery Low is among the last of the best generation, an Army officer who came ashore after D-Day to help defeat the Nazis. At age 104, those memories remain sharp.
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A winding road, a bottle of wine and a crash that keeps punishing Oak Grove
Ananya Rao of Lakeside High School was not driving when she was badly injured and a friend was killed in Atlanta. But her parents might go to prison in an unusual legal case.
1h agoA winding road, a bottle of wine and a crash that keeps punishing Oak Grove
Ananya Rao of Lakeside High School was not driving when she was badly injured and a friend was killed in Atlanta. But her parents might go to prison in an unusual legal case.
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Georgia high court clears path for COVID-delayed prisoner executions
Part of an agreement halting the executions of nine Georgia inmates on death row doesn’t protect them anymore, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
Former Atlanta Housing official sentenced for Section 8 and pandemic fraud
Tracy Denise Jones, who oversaw one of the nation’s largest Section 8 housing assistance programs at Atlanta Housing, was sentenced to nine months in prison for fraud.
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