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OBITUARY

Coleman Barks, UGA professor and poet who popularized Rumi, dies at 88

Voting rights group sues Raffensperger over voter cancellation documents

Georgia lawmakers want statewide grand juries to investigate election crimes

Georgia’s 2026 battlefield takes shape as election qualifying begins

GHSA girls basketball state tournament second-round scores

Wheeler boys basketball team to play in high-profile post-season tournament

Colin Gray says he didn’t see Apalachee shooting coming: ‘He’s a good kid’

FCC approves landmark merger between Cox Communications and Charter

The immediate impact of the merger on existing Cox employees was not known at the time of the announcement.

MONTI CARLO

The quiet labor of cooking for someone who isn’t there

After her teenage son chose to live with his dad, one mother shares how the kitchen became a place to navigate loss and love.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, N.Y., July 27, 2023. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)

OPINION

Georgia House should follow Senate and pass congressional term limits resolution

In 2025, the Georgia Senate passed a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to call for congressional term limits. Now, it's the state House's time to act.

Footage shows moment MARTA train rams into fallen tree and derails

How the largest nuclear plant in the country powers Georgia

The Georgia carpet industry's legacy of chemicals, illness and unanswered questions

Atlanta’s hip-hop historian Nuface preserves decades of rap culture

How Delta’s first Black flight attendants navigated racism at 30,000 feet

Trump pushes debunked Fulton County ballot claims in Georgia visit

Trump hints at sending federal forces to Atlanta ahead of Georgia visit

MONTI CARLO

The quiet labor of cooking for someone who isn’t there

After her teenage son chose to live with his dad, one mother shares how the kitchen became a place to navigate loss and love.

OPINION

Georgia House should follow Senate and pass congressional term limits resolution

In 2025, the Georgia Senate passed a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to call for congressional term limits. Now, it's the state House's time to act.

Basketball playoffs second round features 33 games between top-10 teams

The highest-rated matchup is a girls game — No. 3 Newton at No. 2 Buford — in Class 6A.

Georgia lawmakers vote to increase fines for insurance companies

House Bill 1344 would increase fines for insurance companies that violate state law.

Laken Riley’s father says Georgia university system liable in her death

The on-campus killing of nursing student Laken Riley stems from the negligence of Georgia's university system and several property managers, her father alleges in a lawsuit.

A bullet grazed him at 13. At 25, gunfire left him dead on the same street.

A recent wave of violence in Macon, Georgia, has left seven people dead in a span of nine days in mid-February. Nine more were left wounded in other Bibb County shootings.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Her art is in the Smithsonian. A descendent is uncovering her Georgia past.

The quilts of Harriet Powers, born into slavery, are being memorialized with “Forever” stamps as a great-great-great-granddaughter digs deeper into her Georgia life.

OPINION

Atlantan Rodney Mims Cook is Trump’s man for remaking the White House

The changes to the White House and the nation’s capital may be just getting started.

Netflix backs out of bid to acquire CNN-parent Warner Bros. Discovery

It appears the Warner Bros. movie studio, HBO and Atlanta-founded properties such as CNN, TNT and TBS will ultimately merge with the owner of CBS and Paramount+.

UPDATE

Psychologist sentenced to five years for Decatur 5-year-old’s death

An Avondale psychologist was found guilty of vehicular homicide Wednesday in the 2018 death of Miles Jenness, a 5-year-old Decatur boy.