Police have released two 911 calls made in the moments following Friday's fatal plane crash on I-285, which capture the fear and shock of onlookers. The first caller, unidentified, is screaming and inaudible as sirens blare in the distance, growing louder. [Read more]
"Thanks for your prayers" read one marquee Sunday, as a tight-knit community grappled with the incomprehensible: a father and two sons, gone in an instant. [Read more]
"Truly unfathomable" is how one professor at the University of Mississippi described a loss of this magnitude. A surviving son, who was not on the plane, missed his graduation (where his family was headed) in the wake of the tragedy. [Read more]
A white Stone Mountain principal has come under fire for what onlookers called racist comments about "all the black people" at her school's graduation. She sent students and families an email Saturday apologizing for the ceremony. [Read more]
And: The graduation was bound to be explosive, with a school name like TNT Academy, writes Maureen Downey. [Read her column]
Former President Jimmy Carter has returned to Atlanta amid health concerns, cutting short election observation efforts in South America, the Carter Center announced Sunday. [Read more]
Georgians are now more likely to be killed by a bullet than by a car crash, an AJC investigation has found. The tipping point came four years ago, on a cool, drizzly night in Lilburn. [Read more]
Finally: The Hawks lose to the Wizards — but may have found their spark. [Read more]
