1. Winter storm warning issued for metro Atlanta; 2-4 inches of snow forecast. As metro Atlanta braces for the "biggest snow threat" in two years, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency warned residents to prepare to stay at home for at least three days. [Read here]

2. A thin Eddie Long tells church that the devil wanted him to stay home. After periodic absences from the pulpit during 2016, a very thin and sometimes frail-looking Bishop Eddie L. Long attended several services during the holiday period. [Read more]

3. Cops: Suspect admits to killing DeKalb teen, leaving body in woods. DeKalb County police have charged a 25-year-old Atlanta man with gunning down a teenager, months after the body was found on a wooded path. [Read more] 

4. Billy Joel will play first concert at Atlanta Braves' SunTrust Park in April. The Atlanta Braves will open their new ballpark on April 14, and a couple of weeks later welcome the first concert at the stadium – Billy Joel. [Read more]

5. Uber driver shot as he dropped off passengers. Police are looking for two people who followed a father and daughter to their southeast Atlanta home, held them at gunpoint and shot their Uber driver. [Read more]

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, among others, will no longer be considered fee-free days at U.S. National Parks. While the MLK National Historic Park in Atlanta doesn't charge admission, the new schedule will affect such metro Atlanta sites as Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. (Miguel Martinez/AJC)

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Former Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman talks to her daughter, Wandrea ArShaye "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker, after she testified before the U.S. House Select Committee at its fourth hearing on its Jan. 6 investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)

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