1. Justin Ross Harris sentenced to life in prison without parole. Justin Ross Harris, convicted three weeks ago of intentionally leaving his 22-month-old son inside a hot car to die, was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. [Read more]

2. Georgia University System reacts sharply to talk of sanctuary campuses.  A mushrooming controversy over efforts to defy President-elect Donald Trump and protect immigrants without legal status who are studying on college campuses prompted a sharp reaction from Georgia's University System Monday. [Read more]

3. Council to consider abandoning streets to complete Underground sale. The Atlanta City Council is considering legislation to keep alive the pending sale of Underground Atlanta to a South Carolina developer. But the resolution could mean key streets near the tiered downtown mall would no longer be public rights-of-way and would fall under the control of a private company. [Read more]

4. Prosecutors plan to retry police officer. Prosecutors say they intend to retry a fired South Carolina police officer whose murder trial ended in a mistrial on Monday when jurors could not reach a verdict. [Read more] 

5. NFL's most fashionable player benched for dress code violation. Carolina quarterback Cam Newton said following the Panthers' loss Sunday that he was benched from starting the game because he didn't wear a tie while traveling with the team to Seattle, a requirement of coach Ron Rivera. [Read more]

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Blue heron are just one of the hundreds of kinds of animals and plants that call the Okefenokee Swamp home. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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The renovation of Jekyll Island's Great Dunes golf course includes nine holes designed by Walter Travis in the 1920s for the members of the Jekyll Island Club. Several holes that were part of the original layout where located along the beach and were bulldozed in the 1950s.(Photo by Austin Kaseman)

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