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‘It’s still painful:’ Family members mourn victims of Georgia spa shootings

ATLANTA — Thursday was a day of somber remembrance in Atlanta for the victims of a violent rampage two years ago that shook Asian American and immigrant communities across the city, state, and country.

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Bogdan Bogdanovic, Hawks agree to contract extension

ATLANTA — The Hawks and Bogdan Bogdanovic agreed to a new deal, according to people familiar with the situation. The Hawks sharpshooter signed a four-year, $68 million contract extension.

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Georgia House approves bill to limit treatment for transgender children

ATLANTA — The Georgia House on Thursday approved a bill that would prevent medical professionals from giving transgender children certain hormones or surgical treatment.

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Report: Darius Slayton drawing interest from Giants, Falcons

The New York Giants and Atlanta Falcons are interested in WR Darius Slayton, with both teams reportedly having made an offer.

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NASCAR 2023 Atlanta schedule, entry list, and how to watch

Chevrolet has dominated the year so far, winning the first four races on the schedule for the first time since 2001.

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Inside the 'Stop Cop City' forest camp, the latest epicenter of activism over policing

ATLANTA — Carrying backpacks and bedrolls, a group arrived at a forest just outside Atlanta one balmy March afternoon. At the edge of a thicket of loblolly pines, they stepped over a concrete slab decorated with a mural of a police car, overturned and aflame.

Los Angeles Times

CDC: All adults should be screened for hepatitis B

People with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection are at in increased risk for liver cancer, cirrhosis and are 70% to 85% more likely to die prematurely than the general population, according to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With an estimated 580,000 to 2.4 million people in…

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Damon Stoudamire: ‘Georgia Tech provides for me a chance to win big’

ATLANTA — On Friday evening, Damon Stoudamire was an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics who had just arrived in Atlanta for a Saturday night game against the Hawks. That’s when he received a call from a search firm. It was not out of the ordinary.

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Defendant in Young Slime Life gang case wants to represent himself at trial

ATLANTA — One of the 14 defendants standing trial in the sweeping gang case against rapper Young Thug and his alleged associates wants to represent himself.

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Behind the scenes of the Trump grand jury

ATLANTA — The bomb-sniffing dog was new. The special grand jurors investigating interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections hadn’t before seen that level of security on the third floor of the Fulton County courthouse where they had been meeting in secret for nearly eight months.

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Why Atlanta’s political case to host the DNC may be better than when Democrats controlled the state

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.

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Tents slashed and supplies destroyed: ‘Cop City’ activists describe police intimidation

Police swarmed private property over the weekend, detaining activists and confiscating property; one person arrested, for a traffic ticket

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Chicago a front-runner for 2024 Democratic convention; Whoopi Goldberg boosting New York’s bid in video

Chicago has everything New York says it can offer the 2024 Democratic convention except the Statue of Liberty and garbage on downtown streets.

Chicago Sun-Times

Georgia Tech’s Damon Stoudamire wants to ‘get back to winning championships’

When Georgia Tech athletic director J Batt gave the floor to his new basketball coach, Damon Stoudamire pulled up his chair and prepared to give his introductory address.

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Bill to limit treatment for transgender youth passes Georgia House panel

ATLANTA — A measure to prohibit medical professionals from giving transgender children certain hormones or surgical treatment passed a House panel Tuesday on a party-line vote.

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Biden says Jimmy Carter asked him to deliver eulogy

ATLANTA — In what might have been a slip of the tongue, President Joe Biden said Monday night that former President Jimmy Carter asked him to deliver his eulogy.

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Kyle Anderson's triple-double helps Timberwolves thrash Hawks 136-115

ATLANTA – There were times the Timberwolves tried to relinquish a 28-point lead in the second half Monday.

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Environmentalist shot protesting $90m Atlanta ‘Cop City’ died with hands up, autopsy finds

Family calling on officials to release evidence from investigation into activist’s death

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The family of a 'Cop City' protester who was killed releases more autopsy findings

Attorneys for the family of Manuel Paez Terán said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the shooting, has prevented Atlanta police from releasing more evidence to his relatives.

Daily Mirror

Environmental activist was shot 14 times by police during peaceful protest at 'Cop City'

Environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, 26, was shot at the site of a planned Atlanta, US, $90million (£72million) public safety training in Atlanta’s South River Forest on January 18

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Bill would require Georgia schools to drill for armed intruders

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp will get to sign legislation he sought that would require schools to prepare for armed intruders.

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Family ‘did not find answers’ in second autopsy of slain Georgia activist, attorney says

ATLANTA — The family of Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, the activist killed in January by Georgia State Patrol troopers during a clearing operation at the site of Atlanta’s planned public safety training center, on Monday released a private autopsy conducted after the DeKalb County coroner performed the initial examination for…

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Patriots trading Jonnu Smith to Falcons, reuniting him with ex-Titans OC Arthur Smith

Jonnu Smith is reportedly set to be reunited with Arthur Smith in Atlanta.

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Activist efforts to disqualify Georgia voters may lead to changes

ATLANTA — Rampant attempts to challenge voters’ eligibility, a cause taken up by Republican activists using Georgia’s elections law, could soon be overhauled by lawmakers.

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Opponents of Atlanta police training center say cops arrested 1, detained others

At the end of a “Week of Action” that saw peaceful and violent protests over the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, police and activists came face to face again.

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