News for Metro Atlanta and Region

Tropical Storm Isaias could bring heavy rain, tornadoes to North Georgia

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The Win Column: Is Freddie Freeman now an Atlanta villain?

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UPS rolls out new shipping option for high-value or sensitive deliveries

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Atlanta-based marketing agency joins global company in nine-figure deal

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Witnesses delay, refuse interviews in ex-clerk investigation, OIG says

Buffalo man arrested, accused of threatening to kill Mike Collins, sheriff says

Duracell is powering battery innovation at new $56M Atlanta facility

He faced felony charges. Now, DeKalb is giving him a second chance.

Fifteen young people celebrated their completion of the STRIDE program, which stands for “Stopping Trends of Repeat Incarceration with Diversion and Education,” on Monday.

Smyrna Police investigate homicide park valley apartments

Woman found dismembered in Smyrna was shot in the head, police say

Nearly a week after a woman’s dismembered body was found at a Smyrna apartment complex, police said Tuesday that an autopsy revealed she had been shot.

Firefighters from Savannah Fire wade into floodwaters to deliver food to residents stuck in their homes amid flooding after Tropical Storm Debbie came through Savannah, Ga., on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times)

Where are the hurricanes? Storm-weary Georgia seeing abnormally quiet year.

A powerful El Nino weather pattern is smothering hurricane activity in the Atlantic even as nor'easters churn. Still, experts are urging Georgians to stay vigilant.

Georgia News

Tropical Storm Isaias could bring heavy rain, tornadoes to North Georgia

Tropical Storm Isaias, expected to become a hurricane by Thursday, could bring severe weather to North and Middle Georgia over the weekend.

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New details in Georgia mass shooting: 10 of 35 injured had no gunshot wounds

Ten of the 35 injured at mass shooting in Vienna, Georgia suffered non-gunshot wounds as some were hit by cars while fleeing, others were trampled and one ran into tree limb.

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Breast Cancer Awareness - Falling Through The Cracks

Georgia breast cancer care: How mobile mammography expands access

Breast cancer care can be harder to access for rural, Black and underserved Georgians. Here's what experts and community groups are doing to close the gaps.

Crime & Public Safety

New details in Georgia mass shooting: 10 of 35 injured had no gunshot wounds

Ten of the 35 injured at mass shooting in Vienna, Georgia suffered non-gunshot wounds as some were hit by cars while fleeing, others were trampled and one ran into tree limb.

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Buffalo man arrested, accused of threatening to kill Mike Collins, sheriff says

Georgia officials traveled to New York on Friday and arrested a man accused of threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, the Republican Senate nominee, and his son-in-law.

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Explore 50 years of the Presnell death row case

An interactive timeline traces what's happened in the five decades since the tragic crimes back in May 1976.

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Politics

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Jon Rahm says he won't be part of the next version of LIV Golf

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Trump's $90 Medicare rebate rolls out, but millions aren't eligible. Critics see a political stunt

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MARTA blew fiscal year budget by nearly 17%, officials say

Overtime, operating costs result in MARTA exceeding fiscal year budget.

Decatur Book Festival ends relationship with store amid racism allegations

An attendee of the festival made a Threads post warning others to avoid Kiss and Tale Romance Bookshop, after they “spoke and acknowledged everyone but the Black shoppers."

At long last: Skydance deal closes, beginning new era for CNN, TNT

This is the fifth deal CNN and the former Turner properties have endured in the last 30 years.

A.M. ATL: Governor hopefuls meet, finally

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GEORGIANOMICS

A data center upside

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The City Council is considering a proposal to sell the Atlanta City Detention Center, seen here in 2019, to Fulton County. (Christina Matacotta/AJC)

Federal prosecutors, defenders ask Dickens to hold detainees in Atlanta jail

Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys are asking Atlanta's mayor to allow federal pretrial detainees to fill vacancies in the city's detention center.

‘It’s life-altering’: Mass shooting leaves small Georgia town reeling

A mass shooting in the small South Georgia town of Vienna left two people dead and injured at least 35 early Sunday morning, according to the GBI.

Dekalb County officials hold a press conference addressing youth violence, school safety and the need for coordinated prevention and intervention.

DeKalb school board makes Sauce its permanent superintendent

The DeKalb County School District has been through 10 superintendents since 2010. Sauce was the sole finalist.

A.M. ATL: Hip hop and hashbrowns

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After starting her career in nearly 30 years ago in the training program for Atlanta-based bank SunTrust, Allison Dukes is now the senior managing director and chief financial officer of Atlanta-based Invesco. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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Invesco exec says she once fell into trap of underestimating her abilities

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