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5 things to know: Mayor vows to find out 'what went wrong' at TomorrowWorld

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Sept 29, 2015

Here are five things you need to know tonight:

1. The mayor of Chattahoochee Hills, where the massive electronic music festival TomorrowWorld was held, is now promising a thorough review of what went wrong this year. First, though, the city needs to get cars unstuck from the mud. [Read more] | [Video shows the mess and mayhem]

2. Southern University has established a fund to provide financial assistance to Devon Gales, who was injured in Saturday's loss at Georgia. [Read more]

3. With less than five hours before her scheduled execution, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles again denied Kelly Gissendaner's request that her death sentence be commuted to life in prison for plotting her husband's 1997 murder. [Read more] | [Here's what you need to know about Gissendaner's case]

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