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ATLANTA — The home of an Alabama construction executive was targeted and vandalized last week, authorities said, apparently due to his company’s ties to Atlanta’s planned police and fire training center.

After the Yellow Jackets dismissed their athletic director and coach, they have a chance to break an unfortunate trend within the program.

ATLANTA — This weekend, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra introduces the world premiere performances of “R.E.M. Explored.” The instrumental evenings begin with a suite of selections from the revered Athens band’s catalog, in newly “deconstructed and reconstructed” symphonic arrangements.

ATLANTA — The original members of the progressive rock band Kansas in the 1970s hailed from Topeka and quickly became the most famous music act from that mid-sized Kansas town.

It was an ugly late-night beatdown in a parking lot, one that ended in a shooting death not unlike others that have plagued Atlanta.

ATLANTA — The challenges on Fox’s “Lego Masters” often take 10 to 12 hours. The editors pare them down to mere minutes for each episode.

Elsewhere, Edinburgh Airports confirms increased connectivity with the US

Here are six takeaways from a sobering loss to Atlanta.

A special meeting of the Georgia Tech Athletic Association board has been called for Monday afternoon, a school spokesman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday morning.

ATLANTA — I’m confident that Trae Young and Dejonte Murray will make it work sharing the ball as Hawks backcourt partners. The Hawks already know how to score. Young and Murray will work out the details on the best way for them to keep the Hawks humming as co-lead guards.

An Atlanta store is one of hundreds of independent booksellers across the country celebrating the freedom to read as schools, universities and public libraries face attempts to ban or restrict books.