Cadillac Chronicles TV gets your favorite artists to perform while riding shotgun
Who’s watching our food? Inside the FDA oversight void
See the 2025 T-shirt design and the winners of the men's and women's elite division races.
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About 50,000 runners participated in the 56th running of the nation’s largest Fourth of July 10K road race.
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The design contest for the AJC Peachtree Road Race T-shirt wasn't always a thing. It happened by accident, so to speak. Find out how it came to be.
Hard to believe this 60,000 person, 6.2-mile run that takes over Atlanta each July 4th was once so small. Explore the history of the AJC Peachtree Road Race.
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The first use of "road rage" in the AJC that I can find occurred in 1996, although that sure wasn’t when drivers first started acting crazy.
Independence Day
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Drier air should keep the heat index from reaching dangerous levels during the three-day holiday weekend.
Weekend Things To Do
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Your guide to Independence Day fireworks displays across metro Atlanta. Parades, concerts, kids activities and more will lead up to the pyrotechnics.
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Highlights include fireworks shows lighting up July 4th celebrations, plus musicals and concerts.
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The parks are reopening this week under agreements with Forsyth and Hall counties, which will provide county employees as rangers in exchange for fee revenue.
Cadillac Chronicles TV gets your favorite artists to perform while riding shotgun
Who’s watching our food? Inside the FDA oversight void
‘Big Beautiful Bill’
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The bill eliminates Grad PLUS loans, a popular loan program for graduate students. And it puts a cap on Parent PLUS loans, limiting them to $65,000 per student.
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It’s been six months Jimmy Carter died at age 100, and his hometown of Plains continues to live by the example set by the late president and first lady Rosalynn Carter.
Georgia and Metro News
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Mixed verdict highlights challenges with bringing RICO cases.
Life in Georgia
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A towering mural on the side of the Connally Hotel has mystified Atlanta since 2011. Who is the kneeling man, and what's piercing him? Is it a beam of light? A drinking straw?
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Macon's Nu-Way Weiners, a small chain of Middle Georgia hot dog diners, has serving up legendary chili dogs and other delicacies since 1914. What's their secret?
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In an innovative program at a jail in Athens, inmates face their past and are given more freedom. The goal? That they stop coming back.
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At JJ Food Mart on the west side of Atlanta, an armed comedian keeps the midnight watch. If you misbehave, Connell Daniels Jr. might put you on Instagram.
The Trump-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed its final congressional hurdle on July 3, with the U.S. House of Representatives adopting the Senate's version.
The One Big Beautiful Bill act would increase immigration enforcement funding at the expense of the safety net for hungry, sick and vulnerable Georgians.
You might want to turn your head away from the U.S. Senate’s passage of Trump’s legislative package.
Today, the bleeding from the dagger left in American civility and respect for life is oozing to the surface.
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Patrick Kiprop won the men’s elite division with a time of 27:35. Hellen Obiri won the women’s elite division Friday with a time of 31:29.
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About 50,000 runners participated in the 56th running of the nation’s largest Fourth of July 10K road race.
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The Braves fell to the Angels on Thursday, 5-1, at Truist Park.