1. Cops: Woman abducted, raped and ransomed for Falcons tickets. Newly-released DeKalb County warrants detail a case of rape, which allegedly started with a meeting on a college campus and ended with a violated young woman ransomed for Atlanta Falcons tickets. [Read here]

2. Hot-car-murder trial: 4 things to know today. The Justin Ross Harris trial is back underway this week following a several day hiatus because of Hurricane Matthew, which bombarded the small coastal Georgia town. [Read here]

3. Hearing set in lawsuit over voter registration deadline. A federal judge has set a 10 a.m. Friday hearing in Savannah over a lawsuit seeking to reopen Georgia's voter registration due to Hurricane Matthew. [Read here]

4. Upon his induction, telling Calvin Johnson stories. Georgia Tech great Calvin Johnson will be inducted into the school's sports hall of fame Friday evening along with seven other Yellow Jackets legends, including basketball star Jarrett Jack. [Read here]

5. Nancy Grace's HLN farewell. Atlanta's Nancy Grace chose to not turn her final episode on HLN into a long nostalgic Johnny Carson tearfest. She instead highlighted previous shows about heinous crime that got her blood boiling. [Read here]

5 things to know: Oct. 14

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Fulton DA Fani Willis (center) with Nathan J. Wade (right), the special prosecutor she hired to manage the Trump case and had a romantic relationship with, at a news conference announcing charges against President-elect Donald Trump and others in Atlanta, Aug. 14, 2023. Georgia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, upheld an appeals court's decision to disqualify Willis from the election interference case against Trump and his allies. (Kenny Holston/New York Times)

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