The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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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ICE appears to help with some TSA functions
For two days, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were seen at the Atlanta airport largely walking around and observing, not assisting with airport security screening. On Wednesday morning, The Atlanta Journal-constitution witnessed a...
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ICE officers at Atlanta airport don’t appear to be doing much
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the last few days have become a common sight at the airport, roaming around the atrium and baggage claim areas, The Atlanta Journal-constitution has observed. But they haven’t been observed directly...
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Long lines, hourslong waits worsen at airport
Hourslong airport waits and crowds overflowing the terminal and spilling out onto the sidewalk greeted travelers at Hartsfield-jackson Atlanta International Airport early Monday morning, as a partial government shutdown leaves airport security...
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Fulton’s ‘missing’ election boxes weren’t missing at all
Days after FBI agents descended on Fulton County to seize records from the 2020 election, conservative activists who have cast doubt on the county’s election were quick to latch onto the number of boxes agents hauled away. FBI agents said they grabbed...
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Whistleblowers’ plea fizzled after rocking Atlanta City Hall
The so-called whistleblower letter rocked Atlanta City Hall. Days after Mayor Andre Dickens completed a successful push to put the city’s inspector general on a shorter leash last year, five of the watchdog agency’s top staffers made a plea to state...
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TSA workers struggle to survive without pay
Their pay might’ve stopped. But the bills haven’t. Transportation Security Administration officers have been working for weeks without pay at airports amid a partial government shutdown, and the hardship is forcing some of them to turn to other work to...
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New jail drone to be sheriff’s eyes in the sky
In his latest attempt to combat contraband at the Fulton County Jail, Sheriff Patrick Labat is fighting fire with fire. On Thursday, he unveiled what he described as a first-of-its-kind drone security system. Inmates at the Rice Street jail have been...
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Fulton’s literacy coaches leveling up reading scores
When the timer rings in Erika Jobbers’ kindergarten classroom, her students know exactly what to do. They get up and head to their assigned stations. Small groups form around the room. Some work on writing letters. Another group works with Jobbers on...
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Convicted rapist heads to prison for life
The woman whose face was beamed onto a TV screen at the front of a Dekalb County courtroom had waited 13 years for justice. She spoke confidently and clearly as she read from her statement to the court via Zoom, explaining what Wesley Cooley stole...
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Andrew Young at 94: The last voice in the room
On Monday, Andrew Young was doing what he does best — being Andrew Young. About an hour before he was scheduled to take the stage at the Buckhead Theatre to record Coleman Hughes’ podcast alongside Martin Luther King Jr. biographer Jonathan Eig, Young...
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Runoff is set to decide who will replace Greene in U.S. House
Democrat Shawn Harris and Republican Clayton Fuller were headed toward a runoff Tuesday night in the special election to succeed U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, setting up the matchup the White House and many state GOP leaders had hoped would emerge...
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Storms, staffing issues snarl weekend at airport
Hartsfield-jackson Atlanta International Airport had a rough weekend. Passengers saw long security lines Sunday and Monday morning, as Transportation Security Administration officers entered their fourth week of working without pay during a partial...
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ICE Academy ‘deficient, defective and broken’
Ryan Schwank’s fears began the day he reported for work as a constitutional law instructor at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Academy in Brunswick. First, he says, he heard a discussion among staffers about poorly done background checks on new...
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THE VANISHINGS NO ONE NOTICED
o one knows how long they’ve been disappearing. But vanish they have, again and again, without a trace. The crime scenes dot stretches of Georgia’s rolling, red-clay Piedmont from U.S. 129, the busiest route between Athens and Macon, on up beyond the...
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Retailer tees up for Atlanta mulligan
Troy Rice, like most golfers, says few things are more disheartening than slicing the ball on a swing that feels good. Instead of gracefully gliding toward the green, a slice causes the ball to go wide of the target. So when Rice, the newly appointed...
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Atlanta’s ICE field office exceeds detention limits
José Manuel “David” Gómez had been living in Georgia for more than 20 years when he was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while en route to an air conditioner repair job. The June arrest took place in Banks County, roughly 80 miles...
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Apalachee shooting suspect’s dad convicted
WINDER — Colin Gray, father of the teen accused of killing four and injuring nine others in a September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School, became at least the third parent in the U.S. to be convicted on charges related to their child’s alleged...
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Take a stroll through aviation history at airport
The walls along the hallway between Atlanta’s Concourses D and E had always been forgettable. Now, they’re hard to miss. A new permanent exhibit, “Blue Skies: 100 Years of the Atlanta Airport,” opened there Thursday, and the space is suddenly packed...
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U.S. and Israel continue to pound targets in Iran
President Donald Trump signals a willingness to talk to new leadership after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death, but Iran has vowed revenge, firing missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states in a counteroffensive that resulted in the deaths of...
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TRUMP: IRAN’S ‘EVIL’ SUPREME LEADER KILLED
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — A major attack launched by Israel and the United States killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Donald Trump said Saturday, announcing an assassination that he said gave Iranians their “greatest...
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Colin Gray: Gun gift was attempt to bond
WINDER — Colin Gray described himself as a dad who wanted to make it work. His family was in flux, estranged from his wife, Marcee, who had addiction-related issues and moved out in 2022 with their two younger children amid arguments and financial...
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Sentence is 5 years in 5-year-old’s death
She had killed a 5-year-old boy without meaning to, and Michelle Wierson felt remorse. Wierson wrote letters to the victim’s family, but she couldn’t send them because of a no-contact order. And so, said a friend, the Rev. Kara Russell, Wierson tried...
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State remembers its first group of Black lawmakers
In 1868, 33 Black men were elected to Georgia’s General Assembly in the violent aftermath of the Civil War. Within months, white lawmakers expelled them. On Wednesday, their successors publicly honored them. At a Capitol ceremony highlighting the...
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State of the Union: Trump calls this `golden age of America'
President Donald Trump declared that “this is the golden age of America” during his State of the Union address Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress. “Our nation is back — bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before,” he said. For more...
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Mom: Colt Gray thought teachers were out to get him
In the days leading up to the shooting at Apalachee High School, alleged shooter Colt Gray thought his teachers were out to get him and he was scared, his mother testified Monday. On the stand for the second week of the trial of Colt’s father, her...
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French company makes $140M bet on metro roof shingles factory
PEACHTREE CITY — Every minute, a new pallet of roof shingles rolls off assembly lines in this cavernous factory south of Atlanta. After a multiyear and $140 million expansion, the Saint-gobain plant doubled its capacity, and is now capable of churning...
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Two Georgia families forever connected by D.C. midair collision
The National Transportation Safety Board this week published its final report about the causes of the fatal airplane and helicopter collision in Washington, D.C., in January a year ago. But for two coastal Georgia families, it marked only a chapter in...
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Border Patrol recruiters stir protest at Georgia college job fairs
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials recently visited several Georgia college campuses, not to detain immigrants, but to recruit students. Their presence triggered some criticism, including at the University of Georgia, where students held a...
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Trump’s visit tests his grip on Georgia
ROME — President Donald Trump returned to Georgia on Thursday for the first time since reclaiming the White House, revisiting the grievance that has defined his relationship with the state for much of the decade: his 2020 defeat. In a nearly 80-minute...
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She tried to save her daughter. A son died.
As the Volkswagen hurtled toward the Toyota, going roughly 50 mph on a residential street in Decatur, witnesses noticed something strange. It did not slow down. The driver never seemed to hit the brakes. The Toyota was stopped at a traffic light....
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JESSE 1941-2026 JACKSON
Contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr. twice ran for president, famously championed an all-inclusive ‘Rainbow Coalition.’ The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose impassioned oratory and populist vision of a ‘rainbow coalition’ of the poor and forgotten made him...
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Apalachee suspect obsessed with Parkland
Before he carried out the deadliest school shooting in Georgia history at Apalachee High School, Colt Gray obsessively studied school shooters and even sent money to the person convicted of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, attorneys revealed to...
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69% of metro Atlanta homes sold below asking price in 2025
Metro Atlanta homes sold at a discount last year at the highest rate in a decade, another sign the market has tilted in favor of buyers. In 2025, almost 69% of buyers bought homes below the original list price — the highest share since 2015. That’s...
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The story behind ‘Theo of Golden’ and its Georgia author
About seven years ago in this riverside city, a man walked into a coffee shop. He saw portraits on the walls. And he had the idea that would make him a bestselling novelist. ‘Theo of Golden’ was self-published in 2023. It was picked up last year by an...
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Possible Dekalb school closures may spark exodus
Matt Totten lives close enough to Vanderlyn Elementary and Dunwoody High that he can hear the football team and marching band practice in the summer and can walk his two oldest kids to class every day. The proximity to those schools is part of why his...
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One year later, fired CDC workers keep on fighting
One year ago this week, hundreds of workers at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention watched their email accounts on Friday afternoon, having been told termination notices would go out then. Nothing arrived that day, or that...
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Georgia 1776: The miracle of Americas newest colony
Delivering a politically charged toast in a public tavern these days can elicit groans, shunning and perhaps even a “You want to step outside?” challenge. In Savannah circa 1775, recrimination stretched beyond such civilized bounds. When riverboat...
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Raid’s unsealed documents show FBI relied on skeptics
The FBI cited a slew of allegations that have already been investigated to justify the seizure of Fulton County’s 2020 ballots, an affidavit unsealed Tuesday shows. The document shows the agency interviewed numerous people who have suggested the...
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He persuaded Delta to lend him a Boeing 757
[email protected] As a child, John Bailey would gaze up at the model airplanes hanging overhead in his bedroom. “I loved airplanes,” said Bailey, now 80 years old. “But I had no idea about becoming a pilot.” It wasn’t until college in the...
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10,000 gallons of fuel spilled into Flint River
Friday’s jet fuel spill at the Atlanta airport released an estimated 10,000 gallons from a fuel pipeline into the stormwater system and the Flint River, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. That figure is nearly eight times larger...
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Police body cam footage shows chaos at FBI raid
In the chaotic early moments of the FBI’S raid of Fulton County offices, it seemed no one in county government knew who to trust — or what exactly was going on. The confusion was captured on body cameras worn by Fulton County police officers as they...
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Motherhood fuels Georgia woman’s fifth Olympic run
Elana Meyers Taylor is no stranger to adversity. The U.S. Olympic bobsledder was forced to adjust after her pilot pulled a hamstring in Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Games, and four years later her sled broke in Sochi. She tore her Achilles tendon...
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Gwinnett officer, 25, fatally shot on duty
A 25-year-old Gwinnett County police officer died Sunday morning after being attacked while responding to a call, the agency said. Officer Pradeep Tamang, a native of Nepal, had been with the department less than a year, Chief J.D. Mcclure said Sunday...
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Snow for some turns into bitter cold for all
Snow turned into bitter cold Saturday night across North Georgia, including metro Atlanta. Just lastweekend, Georgianswere forced to hunker down at home because of wintry weather. This time around, though, you could step outside and make a snow angel...
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'Nobody deserves this ... no huma is illegal
The 15-year-olds who organized an after-school, anti-ice protest at Snellville’s Brookwood High on Wednesday afternoon had no idea that hundreds of their classmates would attend. Actually, when sophomore Nusaibah Khan posted a flyer about their plan...
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Officials scramble for details after FBI raid
Fulton County officials defended their handling of the 2020 election after FBI agents seized hundreds of boxes of voting records as part of a criminal investigation. Striking a defiant tone, officials said Thursday they were prepared for possible...
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FBI raids election office in Fulton County
The FBI raided Fulton County’s election operations center Wednesday, an action apparently connected to the Trump administration’s long-held, but unproven, belief that Fulton’s handling of the 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud. Reached by...
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Board created to deliver Stitch to downtown
Capping one of the country’s busiest interstate corridors with an elevated park is a tall task, but a group of Atlanta leaders aims to rise to the challenge. The formation of a nonprofit was announced Tuesday to helm the Stitch project, an effort to...
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Dangerous temps will linger
Frigid cold air is here to stay for at least the next several days even though a weekend storm that caused power outages and canceled school is behind us. North Georgia’s daytime highs, including in metro Atlanta, are projected to hover around the...
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Outages reach 100,000 as ‘dangerously cold’ temps continue
A massive winter storm dumped sleet, freezing rain and snow across much of the U.S. on Sunday, bringing subzero temperatures and halting air and road traffic. Tree branches and power lines snapped under the weight of ice, and hundreds of thousands of...
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