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Metro Atlanta high school focuses on driver’s ed
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Gridlock Guy: Marietta dad touts driver safety after Auburn star’s fatal crash

The Lutzie 43 Foundation reaches Georgia students with lessons on sober, focused driving inspired by Auburn standout Philip Lutzenkirchen’s fatal crash.

Former Judge Christina Peterson gets emotional during a news conference at the law office of Arrington & Phillips in Atlanta on June 21, 2024. (Ziyu Julian Zhu for the AJC)

Ex-judge found not guilty in brawl outside Buckhead club

Christina Peterson, who represented herself during the trial, had been arrested in June 2024 and was accused of willful obstruction of law enforcement officers, a misdemeanor.

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Person of interest in USPS letter carrier’s killing in DeKalb arrested

Dequavious Graves was working a mail route in DeKalb County when he was fatally shot near his carrier vehicle. The shooting was described as “not accidental.”

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Colin Gray says he didn’t see Apalachee shooting coming: ‘He’s a good kid’

Colin Gray testified that he tried to bond with son Colt Gray through golf and hunting amid mounting warning signs ahead of Apalachee school shooting.

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Atlanta’s NCR split itself in two. One half is now being bought for $6.6B.

One of Atlanta’s largest public companies split itself into two separate businesses three years ago, and that decision has created some lucrative acquisition targets.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Her art is in the Smithsonian. A descendent is uncovering her Georgia past.

The quilts of Harriet Powers, born into slavery, are being memorialized with “Forever” stamps as a great-great-great-granddaughter digs deeper into her Georgia life.

Crime & Public Safety
Security guard accused in 90-year-old man’s Buckhead stabbing goes to trial
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Security guard acquitted in deadly Buckhead stabbing of 90-year-old man

Janet Williams was acquitted Friday on all counts, including murder, in the 2024 killing of a 90-year-old who lived in the Atlanta Housing Authority building where she worked.

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UGA fires instructor amid allegations of soliciting sex with minor

A University of Georgia instructor has fled the country after accusations that he sent sexually explicit messages to someone posing as a minor. ...

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A bullet grazed him at 13. At 25, gunfire left him dead on the same street.

A recent wave of violence in Macon, Georgia, has left seven people dead in a span of nine days in mid-February. Nine more were left wounded in other Bibb County shootings.

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Footage shows moment MARTA train rams into fallen tree and derails

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Clayton County is coming after Atlanta airport’s property tax break

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Psychologist sentenced to five years for Decatur 5-year-old’s death

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The FBI’s new role in Georgia: Transporting immigrant detainees for ICE

MARTA provided surveillance video from a train that derailed in December after it struck a tree. The video shows the view from the front of the train, inside the operator's cabin and in the first rail car. (MARTA surveillance video)
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‘We’re lucky to be alive’ after MARTA train hits fallen tree

(From left) Interim MARTA General Manager and CEO Jonathan Hunt and Beltline CEO Clyde Higgs. Both faced questions from Atlanta City Council members this week regarding a vote last year to stop work on the Eastside light rail project. (Arvin Temkar/AJC 2025 and Abbey Cutrer/AJC 2025)

Atlanta City Council wants say in More MARTA projects moving forward

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Downtown Atlanta to gain new luxury hotel ahead of World Cup

The Black Crowes rocked the Fox Theatin 2024. They have been nominated a second time for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. (Robb Cohen for the AJC)

Another Atlanta group could be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame soon

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What Atlanta Magazine’s new top editor plans for the storied publication

Security guard accused in 90-year-old man’s Buckhead stabbing goes to trial

Trial begins for security guard accused in 90-year-old man’s Buckhead stabbing

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Rockefeller unveils details for the tallest residential building in Atlanta