1. Woman charged in Cobb school bus crash. A 23-year-old woman has been charged after a head-on collision with a school bus that injured several people, including two children, Cobb County police said Thursday. [Read more]

2. Gwinnett teen's feet amputated by train. The 17-year-old boy was laying down with his feet draped over the train tracks when he was hit by a CSX train. It took the train between half a mile and three quarters of a mile to come to a complete stop, Lilburn Police said. [Read more]

3. Commentary: GHSA should stand its ground in fight over Phillips. It seems typically ironic that a state representative had this to say about the Georgia High School Association on Monday. "I don't think any of them know what their job is," he said, adding that he receives more complaints about the GHSA — from schools, from referees, from coaches and from parents — than just about everything else put together. "Basically I'm sick of it." [Read more]

4. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from investigation into Russian meddling in US election. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation into Russian interference in last year's presidential election as Democratic lawmakers pressured him to resign amid revelations that he lied about speaking with a Russian ambassador during the presidential campaign. [Read more]

5. 'You're dead': Man arrested after allegedly threatening John Lewis' staff. The FBI and the U.S. Capitol police have arrested a 42-year-old man who allegedly made repeated threats against the Atlanta office of U.S. Rep. John Lewis. [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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