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Atlanta City Council has approved funding for the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center, rejecting the pleas of hundreds of activists who packed City Hall and spoke for hours in fierce opposition to the project they decry as “Cop City.”

City council to vote on giving taxpayer money to controversial project as state characterizes opposition as work of ‘terrorists’

Atlanta Police are searching for 24-year-old suspect Deion Patterson who opened fire at the Northside Hospital Medical Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, shooting five women while he was reportedly at an appointment with his mother

Opponents say move is yet another example of crackdown by officials seeking to disrupt protests against $90m training center

ATLANTA — Between 2019 and 2021, the number of children and teens killed by bullets increased 50% in the United States, according to a national research study.

Visa's chief diversity officer is doing double duty, going door-to-door in her efforts to help address Atlanta's persistent poverty and systemic inequity while diversifying the professional ranks of the company.

ATLANTA — Marc Bolden is frustrated with the out-of-town protesters who cut through his DeKalb County neighborhood, blasting their music and fireworks late into the night and clashing with police.

Poll shows Atlanta divided on racial lines over planned police and fire department training center

ATLANTA — When Atlanta hosted the Democratic National Convention in 1988, Georgia Democrats controlled almost all levers of power in the state. That made the city a solid blue backdrop for the party to select its presidential nominee.

Protesters ask ‘Mayor Andre Dickens – is this enough Black folks for you?’ in demonstration against $90m training center

The violent protest against the construction of a police training center in Atlanta exemplifies how little the radical left has learned since the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Violence and destruction couched as civil disobedience, regardless of the claimed justification, rarely if ever…