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The path to victory for Atlanta's next mayor is clear, even if the candidates don't want to say it.

He's not your typical serial bank robber. You probably wouldn't even feel nervous if you saw him walk into your bank.

A Washington group has created a new way to learn about the history and designers behind the nation's public parks, gardens and other landscapes.

Below is a running, minute-by-minute update following Election Day in Atlanta. Readers can send news and tips to breakingnews@ajc.com . 11:59: With 100 percent of precincts are reporting in Fulton County.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is moving ahead quickly with plans to expand interstate highways across Metro Atlanta.

"It's very frightening to me because I actually walk these streets at night time to go to the store or to pick my kid up from school." As she walked with her young son, Dray, on Friday, Lakiesha Smith was well aware that a sexual predator is on the loose in her neighborhood.

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Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin on Wednesday congratulated the two top candidates who advanced Tuesday night to a run-off election in their battle to succeed her.

The owner of the charter bus that crashed carrying Morehouse College band members has been charged with writing bad checks.

Atlanta police are looking for Patricia Joyce Haygood, a 70-year-0ld woman who has been reported missing.

Grammy-winning singer Estelle remembered when she used to strut in the living room when she was younger, singing many of soul legend Otis Redding's classic songs like "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay." On Thursday night, she had a bigger audience as she and others paid homage to the soul singer in a two-hour performance at the Woodruff Arts Center ...

The staff of the Georgia Department of Transportation is proposing that the state add toll lanes to stretches of several major highways in metro Atlanta.

Officials at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital say they plan to create four new community health "super centers." Grady CEO Michael Young says he hopes the new centers will offer patients a wider array of services, draw more paying patients, and keep people from seeking everyday care in Grady's emergency room.

No evidence of De Soto's path between Tallahassee and North Carolina has been found until now, and few sites have been located anywhere.

An unidentified male cat in Iowa is believed to be the first in the nation diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, sparking concerns that pets may transmit the swine flu or that frightened pet owners may abandon their cats in droves.

If history is any guide, the runoff for mayor in Atlanta will be an expensive, bare-knuckles brawl that could lay bare racial divisions in the city that served as the cradle of the civil rights movement.

Workers at a northwest Atlanta business were tied up during a robbery Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The parents of a Spelman College student killed by a stray bullet while walking on the Clark Atlanta University campus have announced plans to sue the university for neglecting to provide adequate security.

A man entered the RBC Bank, presented a note to the bank teller, and fled with an undisclosed amount of money.