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]

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Members of the conversion crew take a break as the main scoreboard is lowered to the floor to be worked on as the arena gets ready for the next concert at State Farm Arena, Thursday, October 2, 2025, in Atlanta. The crew was working on creating a stage for the Friday, Oct. 3 Maxwell concert. (Jason Getz/AJC)

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