The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cars with modern bones but classic looks
For someone who grew up with his bedroom plastered in classic car posters, Chau Nguyen doesn’t have much nice to say about his experience once he made that dream come true. Sure, nothing on the road turns heads quite like a hot rod or vintage vehicle...
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Federal plan OKs mansions on ‘primitive’ Cumberland Island
Among the otherwise unspoiled natural beauty of the Cumberland Island National Seashore stand reminders of the Georgia barrier island’s opulent gilded past. The ruins of Dungeness, a 59-room, 37,000-squarefoot estate house dating to the mid-1880s,...
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Georgia students scramble as Grad PLUS loans end
Mackenzie Hickson graduated from Spelman College this spring and looked forward to a restful summer before starting her graduate degree classes this fall at Emory University. That was until her mentor said she’d have to be enrolled by July 1 to get the...
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World Cup misses goal for some vendors
The stadium has been packed, the FIFA World Cup Fan Festival downtown has seen record attendance, and watch parties and other events have spread across the region. But for some Atlanta businesses, the major soccer tournament has fallen far short of...
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Human touch doesn’t get lost in the sea of robots
ELLABELL — Car bodies glide across polished factory floors from one assembly station to another, as if thrust by telekinesis, in a mechanical dance. Automated sleds ferry stamped metal to lines of robotic arms, lifting everything from car doors to...
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Thrills. Chills. Heartbreak. A match no one expected.
Argentina completed a stunning comeback to defeat Egypt 3-2 in the World Cup round of 16 match at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Tuesday. Egypt had a 2-0 lead with goals from Yasser Ibrahim and Mostafa Ziko. Cristian Romero started the comeback...
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GOAL IS DEVELOPING DOWNTOWN TO KEEP IT BUSY ALL THE TIME
Downtown Atlanta is abuzz when concerts, conventions and sports are taking place — look no further than this summer’s jam-packed World Cup events. But what does downtown look like between large events? How can a sliver of that game day vibrancy be...
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Federal Government could sell aging 'money pits' in Georgia
Some buildings have leaky roofs or frequent basement flooding. Others feature malfunc tioning elevators, parades of rats or still use air circulation systems from World War II. Some aging workplaces aren’t exactly welcoming to the federal...
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Peachtree sees big turnout as runners beat worst of the heat
Heat and humidity couldn’t take down the Northside Hospital Peachtree Road Race and its 45,000-plus runners, one of Atlanta’s most enduring traditions. Atlanta Track Club, which oversees the annual race in its 57th running, had sent out a red flag...
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THE MODEST ROOTS of GEORGIA'S THREE DECLARATION SIGNERS
Button Gwinnett didn’t want to be in Philadelphia for the Second Continental Congress in the summer of 1776, and not just because a heat wave gripped the city and delegates dressed in wool and powdered wigs. Gwinnett, one of three Georgians in...
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July 4 reopening of MLK’s childhood home is symbolic
As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, the birthplace of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will reopen to the public Saturday after a three-year restoration, offering visitors a new way to experience the home where America’s most influential civil...
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'Pop-up' power plant stirs pollution worries
COVINGTON — Some people dream of living off the grid, controlling their own supply of electricity. A data center racing to open about 40 miles east of downtown Atlanta plans to do just that, assembling natural gas-powered generators on-site to provide...
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Cannons buried in Savannah River tell big Revolutionary War story
Cannon thunder often echoes in this coastal Georgia city, both from historic forts turned tourist attractions and from artillery training exercise fields at nearby Fort Stewart, home to the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. Cannon talk is also...
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Get ready for more soccer and hotter temperatures
Since it was announced the 2026 FIFA World Cup would take place in North America during summer — one made even hotter by climate change — the potential impact of heat on the tournament has been a concern. In Atlanta, players taking the pitch inside...
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‘If ... you want to snatch up some folks just let me know’
Federal agents working to fulfill President Donald Trump’s mass-deportations agenda have benefited in Georgia from a powerful tool: local traffic enforcement. Footage of three traffic stops in northeast Georgia obtained through the Georgia Open...
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And a crash that keeps punishing Oak Grove.
Once upon a time in Oak Grove, someone had a terrible idea. It involved a revving engine and a curving road. It was in some ways a commonplace idea, given the ubiquity of cars in America and the primitive impulses of American teenagers. But in other...
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World Cup a boon to MARTA ridership
FIFA World Cup activities so far have generated more than half a million extra rail trips on MARTA, with ridership on the first four match days at least double the average, the transit agency says. Between matches and the Fan Festival celebrations...
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How Delta handled reports of sexual harassment
Aryasp Nejat had made it through seven weeks of Delta Air Lines’ flflight attendant training program. It was June 2023. He had passed countless exams and was Federal Aviation Administration- qualifified, getting ready for his graduation ceremony at...
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Rainfall brings relief, but Georgia drought not over
In late April, as Georgia faced its most intense drought in almost 20 years, nearly every corner of the state was in desperate need of rain. Water levels in many rivers and streams were at near record lows. Peach State farmers were fearing crop...
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Lawmakers vote to keep using touchscreen machines for midterms
The Georgia Legislature on Tuesday resolved an elections mess of its own making, voting to continue using a touchscreen voting system for the midterm elections despised by President Donald Trump and his allies. The bill was the only major piece of...
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Delta DASH service plots growth with new tech
A forgotten passport. House keys. Legal documents. An aircraft part. Blood samples. Kidneys, corneas and human limbs for research. Live organ transplants. The belly of almost every Delta Air Lines plane doesn’t just hold passenger baggage. It also...
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Atlanta again scores a golden ticket seat
That’s more of what Atlanta expected to see from Spain, the most recent powerhouse to roll through Arthur Blank’s downtown palace. After an immensely disappointing debut match, in which it played World Cup first- time Cape Verde to a scoreless draw,...
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Underfunded Georgia medical board does little to stop doctors who cross the line
The North Carolina medical board issued a blistering disciplinary order in October after it reviewed a case involving surgery on a 13-year-old boy. The teen had gynecomastia, the often temporary enlargement of breast tissue in males during puberty....
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Red, white and 2- 0!
The U. S. men’s national team won its second straight game at this World Cup, defeating Australia 2- 0 on Friday in Seattle to clinch a spot in the knockout round. The U. S. scored on an Australian own goal and on a header from Alex Freeman, then held...
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World Cup in Atlanta: 2 games, 2 draws
Fans of Czechia ( above) and South Africa ( right) were enthusiastic throughout their countries’ match Thursday in Atlanta, which ended in a 1- 1 draw. It was the second World Cup match in Atlanta; the first, on Monday, ended 0- 0. Czechia’s Michal...
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Lawmakers shift focus to a vote- counting issue
Facing a self- made vote- counting conundrum, Senate Republicans are moving to preserve the very voting system that they and President Donald Trump have long criticized. Two years ago, Republican state lawmakers responded to pressure by activists by...
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Jackson topples Jones, wins GOP nomination for governor
Billionaire Rick Jackson spent more than $ 100 million of his own money to defeat Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Tuesday’s Republican runoff for governor, toppling a Donald Trump- backed favorite and rebuking Gov. Brian Kemp to cap one of the biggest political...
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Today's runoff will shape November
President Donald Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp made separate but seismic moves Sunday to shape Georgia’s marquee Republican runoffs, intervening just as voters prepared to settle nomination fights that will define the midterms. President Donald Trump...
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World Cup showcases African, Caribbean roots
For former Haitian Olympian Naomy Grand’Pierre, her country’s return to soccer’s biggest stage is about much more than goals and standings. It is a chance for Haiti to tell a different story. “Qualifying for the World Cup, despite the real hardships we...
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Desperate patients seek cures, leave with debt and regret
Ron Evangelista’s first appointment at Progressive Medical Center left him feeling hopeful. For years, Evangelista, 82, had been dragged down by osteoarthritis in his neck. The pain was so persistent that it had become challenging to do the simple...
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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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