1. Officer-involved shooting in northwest Atlanta. One person was killed in an officer-involved shooting outside the Atlanta Public Safety Annex in northwest Atlanta, according to police. The shooting occurred about 7:40 p.m. Thursday on the 3000 block of Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, Atlanta police spokesman Officer Donald Hannah said. [Read here]
2. Atlanta official no longer with city after disorderly conduct charge. A top official in Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed's administration is no longer employed with the city after she was thrown out of a downtown restaurant last week for alleged intoxication and a confrontation that followed with police. [Read here]
3. Georgians seeking gigs with Donald Trump. Trump filled out his Cabinet just before he was sworn-in as president, but he still hasn't appointed hundreds of other powerful positions in his administration. And many of his earliest supporters and most prominent allies in Georgia are in the running. [Read here]
4. Julio Jones 'tied to the hip' with GM Dimitroff. The Falcons acquired Julio Jones because general manager Thomas Dimitroff made a high-risk trade for the chance to select him in the draft. The Falcons are in the Super Bowl in large part because Jones now is one of the best players in football. "Me and him, we are just tied to the hip," Jones said of Dimitroff. "He gave up a lot for me and, since then, we've been tight." [Read here]
5. Bundle up, metro Atlanta. It's cold, metro Atlanta. Currently, temperatures are 35 degrees in Atlanta, 34 degrees in Blairsville and 32 degrees in Griffin — an 18- to 29-degree drop from where they were early Thursday. [Read here]
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