1. Giants 7, Braves 0: Brandon Crawford broke a scoreless tie with a seventh-inning homer off Braves ace Shelby Miller, and the Giants turned a close game into a blowout. [Read more]

2. Indicted soccer official has Atlanta ties: One of the highest-ranking soccer officials named in the FIFA bribery scandal lives part time in the Atlanta area. [Read more]

3. UGA lands the big fish: Julian Rochester, the state's No. 2 overall college football prospect, committed to UGA on Thursday evening. [Read more]

4. Body cam shows cops forcing pregnant black woman to ground on her belly: Police are defending two police officers who pushed an 8-months-pregnant black woman to the ground and cuffed her because she would not give her full name, saying there was no underlying racial issue. [Read more]

5. Missing Georgia man found dead on 30th birthday: The body of Brandon Perez Ingram was found in Putnam County on Wednesday night, more than a week after he was reported missing. [Read more]

6. Weapons recovered at Victor Hill shooting scene: Investigators found multiple guns as well as a fake training gun from the empty model home where police said the Clayton County sheriff shot and critically wounded a woman, according to law enforcement documents. [Read more]

7. The prime time to drink your morning coffee is... : According to AsapScience, 10 a.m. is the ideal time to consume your morning coffee because the production of cortisol generally peaks between 8 and 9 a.m. [Read more]

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People join a rally in support for U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees on Tuesday afternoon, April 1, 2025, at the Atlanta headquarters after federal cuts triggered significant layoffs. (Photo: Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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