1. Judge: Georgians shielded from deportation may pay in-state tuition. Georgia residents who have received a special reprieve from deportation from the Obama administration may begin paying in-state tuition here under a state court ruling released Tuesday. [Read more]

2. Black neighborhoods bear brunt of Atlanta's eviction crisis. Research released by the Atlanta Federal Reserve found that Fulton County is in the midst of an eviction crisis and its black neighborhoods are bearing the brunt of it. [Read more]

3. Jimmy Carter won't be the only ex-president to attend Trump's inaugural anymore. Former President Jimmy Carter will have some company at Donald Trump's inauguration. The Georgia Democrat had been the only ex-president to formally RSVP to the Jan. 20 bash – until this week. [Read more]

4. When a drug dealer buys up your neighborhood. If you want to know what it's like to live in a neighborhood bought up by a convicted drug dealer, consider a pocket of northwest Atlanta's Grove Park neighborhood. [Read more] 

5. Woman found shot in car along Gwinnett highway, suspect detained. A man pistol-whipped his roommate and shot a woman in the head in an incident that blocked part of a major Gwinnett County highway Tuesday morning, police said. [Read more]

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A state authority that manages a key database of Georgia real estate records said it thwarted a ransomware attack and has returned its website and systems back to normal operations. (Dreamstime/TNS)

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More metro Atlanta sellers are deciding to take their homes off the market, according to a new report. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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