West Peachtree Street reopened after being closed by suspicious package
A major Midtown thoroughfare has reopened after being was shut down for about an hour during the height of Thursday's morning commute while police and fire crews investigated a suspicious package.
All lanes of West Peachtree Street were blocked at 8th Street at 7 a.m.
According to Atlanta police dispatchers, the suspicious package is a duffel bag in the parking lot of the Atlanta Gas Light building.
Just before 7:30 a.m., a bomb-sniffing dog checked out the bag, then a Homeland Security official removed the bag, looked inside and returned the bag to its original location.
Atlanta police said the package had been cleared and West Peachtree reopened by 8 a.m.
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