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Panel recommends renaming school honoring Atlanta editor
ATLANTA (AP) — A committee is recommending that an Atlanta school now named for a newspaper editor who advocated for white supremacy after the Civil War be renamed for a Mississippi-born Black journalist who exposed atrocities including lynchings. An Atlanta school board panel recommended Tuesday that...
Police: Woman, 59, killed in drive-by shooting while asleep
ATLANTA (AP) — Several shots were fired into an Atlanta apartment, killing a 59-year-old woman while she was asleep, authorities said. Eva M. Jones was killed Tuesday morning at her apartment on Cleveland Avenue, news outlets reported. Her death brings Atlanta's homicide count up to 116 this year, making...
Football rules nationally, Dodgers in Los Angeles
NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers played for their season Sunday night on Fox, the seventh game of the National League Championship Series. Win and go to the World Series, lose and go home. At the same time, the Los Angeles Rams played a regular season game on NBC against the San Francisco 49ers, a...
'Kamala' becomes a rally call against GOP senator in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats are seizing on Republican Sen. David Perdue’s comments at a recent rally in which he made a spectacle of struggling to pronounce the name of Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, with critics accusing Georgia’s senior senator of mocking her and...
Man gets prison for sabotage that caused PPE delivery delay
ATLANTA (AP) — A former vice president of a medical device packaging company has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for sabotaging his former employer's electronic shipping records, which prosecutors said delayed the delivery of personal protective equipment to health care providers. Christopher...
Judge considers challenge to CDC order halting evictions
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge in Atlanta is weighing a challenge to a Trump administration directive that halts the eviction of certain renters through the end of the year in an effort to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month issued an...
Metro Atlanta school system remains virtual citing virus
ATLANTA (AP) — One of Georgia's largest public school systems says it's continuing with online classes rather than traditional teaching because coronavirus cases in the area are still too high. The DeKalb County School District said Monday cases of the illness caused by the virus, COVID-19, aren't dropping...
Loeffler, Warnock, Collins spar in 1st Georgia Senate debate
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Rep. Doug Collins both accused the other of lying and touted their own conservative credentials in their first debate, while Democrat Raphael Warnock assailed Loeffler for associating herself with a congressional candidate who has embraced baseless QAnon...
Bourdeaux seeks Democratic gain in Georgia's 7th District
SUWANEE, Ga. (AP) — Even after gaining 41 seats in the U.S. House in 2018, Democrats believe there are chances to pick up more this year, including in the fast-growing suburbs northeast of Atlanta that make up Georgia's 7th Congressional District. College professor Carolyn Bourdeaux almost stunned...
COVID-19 infections rising in Georgia since recent lows
ATLANTA (AP) — The number of COVID-19 cases is rising in Georgia, although infections in the state are not climbing as fast as those nationwide. Even with relatively few infections reported Monday, the state's seven-day average is close to 1,300, more than 10% above the recent bottom on Oct. 8. The number...
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