4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1129+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta 🌤️ Mostly sunny and 85° today. 🫡 Warm Springs police officer Sgt. Christopher Fisher, who was fatally shot on Sept. 1, will be laid to rest today in Fayetteville. 🏈 The Falcons plan to start quarterback Tua Tagovailoa against the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1220+ words) Tuesday, Sept. 1 — Lionel Messi said he is retiring from international soccer at 39, citing his father’s death last month. Argentina’s all-time leading scorer and most-capped player, Messi led his team to the 2022 World Cup title and two Copa América crowns. He…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (294+ words) Georgia Southern University Director of Health and Wellness Gemma Skuraton will receive $250,000 in a settled lawsuit after she was fired from the college in 2025 for opposing rollbacks to LGBTQ+ rights on campus. According to the lawsuit, more conservative leadership took…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (871+ words) One man’s opinion: OH! Canada Rough Draft Atlanta As an American citizen, I increasingly feel the need to apologize to our many friends and neighbors across the globe, as if we have just completed a large holiday meal, where a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (461+ words) The Affordable Care Act health insurance program that covers 900,000 Georgians is on track to see price hikes of as much as 20% or more when open enrollment begins this fall for 2027 coverage. That’s according to state data obtained by the Georgia…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1180+ words) In late July, a new website popped online carrying local news stories from Georgia. There was an article about a disgraced former Atlanta City Council member, another about President Donald Trump’s visit to Cobb County, and one about Georgia coach…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (285+ words) The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered Emory University to conduct a “research security audit” examining its academic, financial and research ties to foreign entities of concern, according to a report from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Emory is among 30 U.S. universities…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (331+ words) The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is sending a lawsuit over Georgia’s 2021 political maps back to a lower court, ordering it to reexamine an earlier ruling that concluded the state’s maps were racially discriminatory. The decision comes a few months after…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (281+ words) Everton Blair, a former Gwinnett County Board of Education chair, is headed to Washington to finish out the late Congressman David Scott term representing Georgia’s 13th Congressional District after defeating Marcye Scott, the daughter of the late congressman, in a special…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (449+ words) Republican Public Service Commissioner Tricia Pridemore is stepping down early next month, 60 days before the election to replace her. In an Aug. 18 email to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, Pridemore announced her plan to leave the body that regulates Georgia’s utility…...