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Atlanta police say a 22-year-old man was shot and killed in southwest Atlanta on Friday night.

The annual Walter Rodney Symposium will be held on March 21-22, 2014 at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Police are trying to find the man found shot to death in a southwest Atlanta apartment complex.

Police in Atlanta's northern suburbs are searching for an armed man suspected of robbing an Alpharetta convenience store.

A Columbus native, Whiddon graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in horticulture in 1996.

Keep Atlanta Beautiful Friday announced its two monthly recycling events will now feature textile recycling, as the nonprofit has partnered with USAgain, a Stone Mountain-based textile recycling company.

An Alabama couple and the four children they adopted amid the violence in Ukraine safely reunited Friday in Atlanta's main airport.

Newspaper editors live with a telephone stuck to their ears. A few have guns stuck in their face.

A three-week-old elephant stands by its mother Vishesh in Ostrava's zoo, North Moravia, Czech Republic, on February 26, 2014.

Whether we realize it, African elephants are listening to us. The pachyderms can tell certain human languages apart and even determine our gender, relative age, and whether we're a threat, according to a new study.

To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Gone With The Wind , Atlanta Movie Tours is launching Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind Tour .

Patch Staff Report Get ready to dig out that "Kiss Me - I'm Irish" shirt. On Saturday, Atlantic Station will host one of Atlanta's biggest St. Patrick's Day celebration - the third-annual ShamRock the Station .

Police have made an arrest in connection with a shooting death in Stone Mountain from 2012.

Magic City, there can be only one. The famed Atlanta strip club won a trademark infringement case against a business group in Chicago that attempted to co-opt Magic City's name and silhouette design in their advertising and signage.

The City of Atlanta will honor Think It's A Game Entertainment visionary and founder Fly with a plaque of Proclamation on Monday, March 17th inside the City Council Chambers at Atlanta City Hall, located at 55 Trinity Avenue in Atlanta.

Authorities say the car and a white trailer used to haul the vehicle were taken from a home on Roosevelt Highway in the Palmetto area southwest of Atlanta.

Joe Paull jpaull@ledger-enquirer.com The giant mural painted by Alex Brewer, better know as HENSE, on the side of a two-story brick wall at 1211 Broadway appears to be finished.

Nadia Mara took ballet classes starting at age 3 in Montevideo, Uruguay, devoured videos of great U.S. dance companies and dreamed big ballerina dreams of performing professionally for one of them someday.

By Hunt Archbold Three armed robberies of Kay Jewelers stories, including one in Snellville, may be linked, according to officials.

The Atlanta Police Department is working with the Cobb County Police Department and the Gwinnett County Police Department to investigate three armed robberies of metro area Kay Jewelers stores.