The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Beltline’s newest trails form ‘The U’ and link key areas
One of the promises of the Atlanta Beltline has been to use abandoned rail lines to connect dozens of neighborhoods across the city. On Friday, city leaders celebrated a historic milestone, unveiling two new segments of the trail connecting the...
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The World Cup is finally here, so it’s party time!
The FIFA Fan Festival kicked off Thursday at Centennial Olympic Park with headliner Summer Walker and performances from acts including Universoul Circus and D J Rasta Root. The festival has a capacity of 15,000 people at one time and will enable fans...
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Habersham County tells us a lot about GOP governor's runoff
The northeast Georgia county delivered one of themost remarkable results of theMay primary: Jackson and Jones fifinished in a dead- even tie, each earning exactly 2,640 votes. That result offffffffffffers a window into the bitter runoffff now...
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These Dawgs will hunt for a College World Series title
Georgia pitcher Caden Aoki lifts the trophy Sunday as the Bulldogs celebrate their series- clinching victory in the NCAA Athens Super Regional. The Bulldogs beat Mississippi State 11- 9 in 10 innings at Foley Field, ending the best- of- 3 series and...
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Welcome to Georgia, where questionable therapies flourish with little oversight
Dr. Charles Adams built his Tennessee practice by telling patients a controversial IV therapy he provides was good for everything from headaches to heart disease. So when that state’s medical board threatened to crack down, he found a work-around. He...
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Savannah veteran, 104, shares his D- Day stories
By the time 2nd Lt. Avery SAVANNAH — Low’s boat landed at Utah Beach in June 1944, the machine guns on the bluffs went silent. The tides and waves had washed the blood from the sand. The quartermaster had cleared the debris left over from the D- Day...
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State voting overhaul could bring big payday
A vendor set up outside the state Capitol during the General Assembly’s legislative session in March to tout his voting touchscreens and ballot tabulators. Election Systems & Software wasn’t there by chance. The Nebraska- based company was angling for...
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No private jet rush yet as World Cup nears
Metro Atlanta’s general aviation airports have been preparing for the FIFA World Cup for years. There was talk that the eight local matches would amount to “eight Super Bowls,” said Hunter Hines, director at DeKalb- Peachtree Airport ( PDK) in...
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Airport additions for World Cup: New parking deck, plenty of tech
There’s nothing like a deadline. The upcoming World Cup has served as one for infrastructure upgrades across Atlanta, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is no exception. The Metro Atlanta Chamber projects some 300,000 visitors could...
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Senate GOP runoff will test Kemp’s formula
Derek Dooley entered the U.S. Senate race as a political novice. He may now be one of the last statewide standard-bearers for Georgia’s establishment Republicans. After the May primary wiped out a slate of establishment-friendly candidates, the former...
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7 takeaways from Sunday’s marathon political debates
More than 2 million people voted last month in Georgia’s statewide primary elections. But that was just the warmup. Voters go to the polls again on June 16 to decide the matchups for the midterm elections in November. Sunday, a dozen candidates in...
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State Election Board hires vocal election skeptic as investigator
The State Election Board has quietly hired an activist who has challenged the registrations of thousands of Fulton County voters and who cheered as the FBI raided a county ballot warehouse in January to be the board’s official state investigator, The...
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Yellow Jackets flex their muscle in opening rout
Georgia Tech, the nation’s No. 2-ranked team, broke out the bats in its opening game of the NCAA Tournament’s Atlanta Regional at Russ Chandler Stadium on Friday. The Yellow Jackets hit seven home runs and clobbered the University of Illinois Chicago...
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Mandela art speaks across borders
In 1990, after spending 27 years in a South African prison, Nelson Mandela traveled to Atlanta as part of a sweeping American goodwill tour. He arrived June 27, landing at what was then Hartsfield International Airport. Maynard H. Jackson, then the...
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World Cup nears. MARTA trains miss key safety tests.
Days away from the FIFA World Cup kicking off in Atlanta, MARTA’s new trains have not yet passed critical safety tests — a delay that threatens to undermine the agency’s promise to upgrade the transit system in time for the city’s showcase on the...
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New inland port could speed Georgia shipping and ease Atlanta highway traffic
GAINESVILLE — Five cargo containers look mighty lonesome sitting on a 100- acre concrete slab designed to support tens of thousands of the colorful metal boxes. Yet the seven erector setlike gantry cranes and the six 3,000- foot- long railroad sidings...
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Lawyer? Social media star? Why not be both?
Barely 60 seconds after positioning his “Ask A Lawyer” sign along the Beltline one recent Sunday afternoon, Atlanta attorney Cody Randall was approached by the first of many people who recognized him from social media. The fan on skates paused just...
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Atlanta Jazz Fest crowd braves rain at Piedmont Park
The annual Atlanta Jazz Festival concludes its three- day run today at Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. The weather wasn’t always cooperative Sunday, but, hey, what’s a little rain when you can hear good music? Six- time Grammy winner PJ Morton is...
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Voting Rights Act changed Ga. Now Black officials fear the worst.
In many ways, the Voting Rights Act not only helped define the contours of Georgia state Sen. Ed Harbison’s political life — it made it possible. The Columbus Democrat grew up in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, where the idea of any Black person in an...
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Expensive race about to get more costly
JACKSON — Days after finishing first in one of the most expensive primaries for governor in the nation’s history, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was shifting into runoff mode from a modest office at his family’s company headquarters. His advisers were mapping...
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TED TURNER CNN FOUNDER. BUSINESS MAVERICK. FOREVER A SON OF ATLANTA AND GEORGIA.
had one of the most incredible runs in human history,” swashbuckling Atlanta entrepreneur Ted Turner told TV interviewer Charlie Rose in 2004. But in quieter moments, he wondered if he had accomplished enough. Turner improbably transformed his...
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Feds target Fulton’s 2020 election workers
Fulton County officials are racing to block a federal subpoena seeking personal information about thousands of election staffers, poll workers and volunteers who helped administer the November 2020 election. In a 27-page motion filed Monday, the...
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Zelma Redding: ‘I only had one love in my life ... Otis.’
I met him at the Douglass Theatre in Macon on the talent show. We were catching a bus right there at Cherry Street and Broadway. He was coming up the street with Johnny Jenkins, who was the star. And Otis said, “Hey, baby.” So I just looked around....
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Vegetable, fruit and herb gardens are increasingly in demand
Beauregard sweet potatoes. He said he doesn’t anticipate the interest in victory gardens abating. “Whether it’s for health reasons or cost-saving reasons or just sustainability and selfsufficiency reasons, victory gardens are always going to be a...
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Most GOP Senate primary voters still undecided
More than half of Republican primary voters in The Atlanta Journal-constitution’s new poll still don’t know who they are voting for in the U.S. Senate primary to determine who will challenge Jon Ossoff in November. U.S. Rep. Mike Collins received the...
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Top issue in Georgia’s May primary elections: Trump
Georgia candidates keep talking about jobs, taxes and the rising cost of living. But one reality keeps intruding on every marquee race on the May 19 ballot: Donald Trump still dominates the conversation. Call it another Trump primary in Georgia. And...
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Hopefuls race to redefine campaigns in District 13
Democratic candidates in the crowded District 13 congressional primary election are suddenly in a sprint to redefine their campaigns after last week’s death of U.S. Rep. David Scott upended the race. Scott, who died April 22 at 80, was running for a...
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GOP, Democrats clash as early voting begins
For the first and likely last time, all seven Democratic contenders for governor shared the same debate stage Monday. And they made clear they weren’t playing nice. Candidates who mostly have avoided direct confrontation spent the Atlanta Press Club...
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It’s better for you to give back than receive for UPS
UPS isn’t as interested in the e-commerce deliveries that used to be its bread and butter. “There’s just not a lot of margin in delivering T-shirts to houses,” Chief Financial Officer Brian Dykes told The Atlanta Journal-constitution last fall. That...
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‘Pretty scared’ Georgia farmers begin to fear crop losses as epic drought deepens
Most years, April is a busy time at Lee Nunn Farms, a 1,600-acre family farm near Madison. The corn is already in the ground and reaching skyward. The damp soil in other fields, recharged by winter rains, is being prepped to receive cotton or soybean...
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Looks like Hawks are ruling playoffs roost
After Thursday night’s 109-108 win over the Knicks in Game 3 of the Hawks’ first-round playoff series, there is zero reason why the Hawks can’t win this series.
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Wildifires continue to rage in South Georgia
Gov. Brian Kemp will travel today to South Georgia to evaluate one of two large wildfires blazing through the region and sending smoke all the way into metro Atlanta. The Highway 82 fire in Brantley County has grown to 5,000 acres, destroyed dozens of...
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Five years of work begins to add Ga. 400 express lanes
Work on the massive Ga. 400 express lanes project — one of the most expensive the state has ever pursued — officially kicked off Wednesday, ushering in years of construction with a promise that traffic will move faster — five years from now. It’s a...
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Atlanta joins fight against Trump’s anti-dei grant terms
The city of Atlanta has quietly joined a lawsuit seeking to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold funding from municipalities because of their diversity, equity and inclusion programs, The Atlanta Journal-constitution has learned. In...
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Embattled ex-chicago-area mayor a Fulton candidate
Tiffany Henyard says she had no intention of running for the Fulton County Commission when she moved to Union City last year, leaving behind a litany of controversies from her term as a mayor in a Chicago suburb. After losing her reelection bid for...
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Lawyers compete to curb rising food insecurity
At a time when 1 in 5 Georgia children face food insecurity and the Atlanta Community Food Bank is serving 70% more people than four years ago, the state’s lawyers are competing to fix the problem. Since 2012, many of Georgia’s 34,500 active attorneys...
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MARTA’s new bus network promises more frequency but will test reliability
Being a MARTA bus rider can take patience. The wait between buses is as much as 40 minutes on close to two-thirds of the transit agency’s current routes. Weekends and off-peak trips can be even longer. Every transfer adds to the potential for further...
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The money race
With roughly a month to go until primary day in Georgia, candidates in some of the state’s most competitive congressional races have begun to lap the field in fundraising. While the incumbents in most races have the edge, that is not the case in...
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New hockey team claws its way to popularity in football country
ATHENS — A police dog is unleashed and takes off after the suspect. Tina, a Belgian Malinois, gives chase, brings him down, and Officer Marcus Mcqueen moves in to load the man into a nearby police car. In unison, nearly 6,000 people roar in...
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Democrats see early signs of a Latino rebound in Dalton
A few weeks before the special election in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, a folding table went up outside a Latino nightclub in Dalton where Democrat Shawn Harris’ supporters offered a simple deal to register to vote and get in free. The first...
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JD Vance in Georgia criticizes pope, says Iran should ‘join world economy’
ATHENS — Vice President JD Vance, speaking Tuesday at a Turning Point USA event, said the U.S. wants Iran “to join the world economy” and criticized Pope Leo XIV’S comments about the war. His comments came after Erika Kirk, the conservative group’s...
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Festival sees lighter traffic, ticketing confusion
The Dogwood Festival, a long-running annual staple at Piedmont Park, drew lighter traffic than normal this past weekend after switching from a free model to a gate fee. Brian Hill, executive director of the nonprofit organization, said Monday that...
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More glory for Rory: Mcilroy again wins Masters
It took him a while to win his first green jacket (17 tries), but Rory Mcilroy is making up for lost time. He shot 12-under 276 to win his second consecutive Masters title. He flinched early in Sunday’s final round, then surged with a flurry of...
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Artificial intimacy is on the rise
It’s a modern-day paradox: Even as many fear artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and possibly humanity, others are turning to AI for mental and emotional support. The American Psychological Association defines AI companions as AI “specifically...
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Perfect splash! Artemis II astronauts return to Earth
The Artemis II astronauts are back on Earth. The three Americans and one Canadian returned with a dramatic splashdown Friday evening, as their capsule parachuted into the Pacific Ocean to close out a nearly 10-day trip to the moon and back. The crew of...
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Midtown church weighs future of hall on ‘peril’ list
It’s not unusual to see a few empty seats in the front pews on Sundays. It’s common for pastors to invite members to venture forward, often with a quip that God sees the back rows, too. But Simon Mainwaring, the rector of All Saints’ Episcopal Church,...
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Democrats see momentum in loss for MTG’S seat
Roughly an hour after polls closed on Tuesday night, Republican Clay Fuller was declared the newest member of Georgia’s congressional delegation. Only about half the votes had been counted by that time, but the returns made it clear that he had won...
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Clay Fuller wins runoff election to finish MTG’S congressional term
RINGGOLD — Republican Clay Fuller is headed to Congress after winning Tuesday’s runoff to serve the remainder of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s term. He also will immediately relaunch his campaign and ask voters to elect him to a full two-year...
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Piedmont Park shooting victims were bystanders
Atlanta police officers will ramp-up their enforcement of curfew violations following a spate of shootings over Easter weekend and the killing of a 16-yearold girl at Piedmont Park, Mayor Andre Dickens said Monday. Authorities said the two teenagers...
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April showers don’t dampen Easter worship
Inclement weather did not deter a congregation of people from hiking — or riding — to the top of Stone Mountain on Sunday morning. Instead, folks stood in rain-resistant ponchos and under umbrellas to mark the park’s 80th annual Easter sunrise...
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'A HYMN OF TRIUMPH'
On an afternoon in late March, the students in Nancy Ewing’s Atlanta home are working on an art form that nearly died out hundreds of years ago. Icons are ancient works of religious art, often depictions of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, saints and scenes...
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Lawmakers OK income tax cut, property tax relief
The General Assembly late Thursday approved a significant income tax cut and a scaled-back proposal for property tax relief. Lawmakers also approved a $38.5 billion spending plan that boosts funding for children’s literacy, retiree pensions and other...
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Legislative session comes to an end
Rep. James Burchett (hand on hip), R-waycross, reacts after SB 513 failed to pass Thursday, which was the final day — or Sine Die — of the legislative session. SB 513 was known as the “Every Day Counts Act” and addressed chronic student absenteeism in...
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CNN Center’s rebirth as ‘The Center’ comes into focus
Nearly everyone in Atlanta has a memory of CNN Center. Maybe it was ducking inside its food court on a sweltering summer day to enjoy some air conditioning. Perhaps it was a school field trip to gawk at CNN’S studios. There also are the tens of...
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Lost evidence found in long-closed sex-assault case
Prosecutors in Savannah have reopened an unsolved sexual assault case after an unexpected discovery: Key evidence that had been missing for decades was found scattered about the small-town police department that investigated the case. The development...
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Atlanta TSA officers begin receiving some back pay
Some Atlanta Transportation Security Administration officers have begun receiving promised back pay for their six weeks of unpaid work. George Borek, an American Federation of Government Employees union steward representing Atlanta-area TSA employees,...
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Horses gear up to patrol Atlanta’s World Cup events
These officers can outrun you, outmaneuver you through dense downtown traffic and scout out any funny business in large crowds. They tower over nearly everyone who will attend FIFA World Cup events around Atlanta and are responsible for crowd control...
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Push to privatize security gets new look with long airport lines
The security screening meltdown triggered by the partial government shutdown has some asking whether screening at the world’s busiest airport should be privatized. Before 9/11, screening at the Atlanta airport was handled by private contractors and the...
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Braves walk it out on way to Opening Day
Fans jammed the streets outside Truist Park on Friday to witness the Braves Walk before the team’s Opening Day game against the Kansas City Royals. Players and coaches greeted fans as they paraded on the streets in The Battery Atlanta. Later, the team...
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Crush of travelers keeps airport clogged
Lines again stretched outside the terminal early Thursday morning at Hartsfield-jackson Atlanta International Airport, receded around midday and began to pick back up as afternoon volumes increased. More than 86,000 people were expected to pass...
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