An elementary school in Georgia is facing backlash over a display depicting "appropriate" and "inappropriate" hairstyles for students.
Atlanta's mayor put a pause on the city's issuance of permits for smartphone-based electric scooter rentals Thursday following two recent deaths.
The city had come under pressure from activists in recent days who had protested on Atlanta's streets after a man riding a scooter was run over by a city transit bus.
Just 25 miles separates Georgia’s vibrant capital city, Tbilsi, and the front line of a geopolitical struggle between Russia and the West.
Ignoring Washington's warnings, Moscow-backed troops have been moving a disputed border deeper into Georgia, a former Soviet republic that is now a staunch U.S. ally.
Russia agreed to withdraw its soldiers as part of a cease-fire deal in the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, but they have not. Instead, troops or their local allies have bolstered the separatists' boundaries or moved them deeper into Georgia.
Sometimes a few extra acres are swallowed up in the night. In other places, ditches are plowed, surveillance cameras installed and green signs erected reading: "Attention! State Border! Passage Forbidden!"
Temuri Khuroshvili is a retired police officer whose cinder-block house is in one of the 52 villages on the boundary. His home is surrounded by annexed territory on 3 sides.
"We can do nothing to protect ourselves … we cannot start war on them," Khuroshvili said.
Nikolas Korashvili, a dance teacher, said his brother was forced to flee after he woke up to find the boundary had been moved overnight beyond his property.
“They gave him no warning,” Korashvili said. “He had to run away with his children and his family.”
The boundary "has been hardening" and becoming "more impenetrable," E.U. mission chief Erik Høeg said while overlooking a wide valley bisected by the meandering line. "It's been much more difficult since 2009, and we see less flexibility compared to 3 or 4 years ago."
Stacey Abrams easily defeated Stacey Evans in the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday.
Now, Abrams will attempt to make history by becoming the nation’s first black female governor — and Georgia’s first woman governor — by winning the general election in November in a state that Republicans still dominate.
"We are writing the next chapter of Georgia history, where no one is unseen, no one is unheard and no one is uninspired," Abrams told supporters in Atlanta Tuesday night at her victory party.
"Now let's go get it done."
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The suburban Atlanta father accused of murdering his toddler by leaving him in a hot SUV for several hours was in an unhappy marriage and wanted a "child-free life," a detective testified Thursday.
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The incident was reported early Tuesday at a FedEx facility in Kennesaw, Ga., north of Atlanta. The gunman was found dead of a self-inflicted wound.
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Point by point, the new rules that permit guns in churches, schools, bars and government buildings.
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Its official name is the “Safe Carry Protection Act.”
But critics are calling it the “Guns Everywhere Bill.”
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He cleaned up, all right.
A Georgia man was tidying his room and came across a month-old lottery ticket that was gathering dust — and turned out to be worth a million bucks.
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More than half a million people in the Southeast woke up to a cold and dark Thursday after the second vicious ice storm in as many weeks caused widespread power outages.
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Forecasters used words like "catastrophic" and "historic" Tuesday to describe an ice storm heading toward Georgia and other areas of the Southeast before it moves up the coast to hit a beleaguered Northeast later in the week.
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Atlanta won't get fooled again.
The South is bracing for another blast of winter weather starting Monday night, and Georgia and its biggest city are determined to avoid a repeat of last month's disaster.
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City struggles to find its way back to normal while officials grapple with the political fallout from the snowstorm that hit the South.
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When 90 kids were stranded overnight by the snow, E. Rivers Elementary School principal Matt Rogers made it a fun "snowcation" -- showing movies, serving pizza, drying tears and tucking them in using their own coats as blankets.
“It was just something you sign up for when you become a teacher,” said one teacher, who slept for about 90 minutes Tuesday night on her classroom floor. “You’ll take care of your children whenever necessary.”
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What a birthday for a police officer and the baby girl he helped deliver during a snow and ice storm near Atlanta.
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A rare winter storm hatched a nightmare traffic jam that paralyzed parts of the South — especially the city of Atlanta — that is ongoing, nearly 24 hours after it began.
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A 14-year-old Georgia girl kidnapped by two gunmen during a home invasion early Tuesday has been found alive, officials said.
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