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Christopher Taylor won $20,000 last month from Georgia Tech's Inventure Prize competition to turn his designs for toys that wiggle around and roll away from Fido on their own accord into a Chris Taylor, a student at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, just won $20,000 in the school's invention competition to develope his line of robotic dog toys, called ... (more)

Police say a shoplifter in metro Atlanta had particularly sticky fingers for deodorant sticks, stealing 195 of them from a Target store.

One patient with a history of substance abuse and suicidal thoughts was left alone in a waiting room inside the Atlanta VA Medical Center, where he obtained drugs from a hospital visitor and later died of an overdose.

MAR seafood restaurant opens tonight at 314 E. Howard Ave. in Decatur. Featuring tables made of wood reclaimed from a nearly 100-year-old house and a summery patio, it's a place to down tons of tequilas while noshing on Mexi-coastal cuisine such as pickled oysters, chile-rubbed shrimp, and grilled serrano peppers from chef Joey Zelinka .

A local congressman wants someone - or some people - fired at Atlanta VA Medical Center on Clairmont Road following a federal report that links mismanagement to several patient deaths.

Special Graphic An artist's rendering shows an aerial view of what the Buckhead Atlanta project will look like once complete, with Peachtree Road in the foreground.

A section of Lenox Road in Atlanta was closed as authorities investigated an unattended backpack on Friday.

Office drones, college students, and tourists who wish they could "check out" a bicycle from a corner kiosk for a few hours and pedal around Atlanta might soon get their wish.

Sixteen people were taken to the hospital Friday, at least two in serious condition, after they were hurt in a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport, officials said.

Authorities say 18 people have been taken to the hospital following a crash between a hotel shuttle bus and a tractor-trailer near Atlanta's airport.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman Ana Santiago says metro Atlanta residents from Belize, Colombia, Ghana, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, the Philippines and St.

Let no one accuse the Atlanta Cyclorama of being a stodgy institution. On May 17 and 18 the museum boldly allowed art collective John Q to stage "The Campaign for Atlanta: An Essay on Queer Migration" as an after-hours event.

A high school in Clayton County is set to graduate five sets of twins during its graduation ceremony on Friday.

A hundred public safety employees, their families and other backers, started the day outside city hall-loudly making a point about their city salaries.

Don't worry, the $652 million plan to deepen Savannah's busy shipping channel remains very much on President Barack Obama's radar, the mayor of Atlanta told coastal business and political leaders Thursday.

Peruse the lineup for this year's Atlanta Jazz Festival and you'll notice a number of artists listed who - much to the chagrin of a few hardcore traditionalists - don't neatly fit into the standard "jazz" categories.

Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house in Clayton County.

A month ago, the retired Army lieutenant colonel had a brainstorm that the Atlanta History Center's dedication of its redone Veterans Park on Memorial Day would be more memorable if it could include a "Sacred Soil" ceremony.

Late Wednesday, Atlanta Police Department homicide investigators released surveillance photos of three people they wanted to interview in connection with the May 7 shooting and homicide of Jerrick Jackson in northwest Atlanta.

Atlanta - The Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System will break ground on the new Wolf Creek Library next Thursday, May 30 at 11:00 a.m. The new 25,000-square-foot library for Wolf Creek is part of Phase I of the Library Building Program that is currently underway.