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Patch Staff Report Atlanta's St. Patrick's Day Parade is set for Saturday on Peachtree Street, beginning and ending in Midtown.

Atlanta's top economic development official will be stepping down from his post and heading across Downtown to the Metro Atlanta Chamber.

For celebrating Mother's Day, there's no better place to explore than the breathtaking sites featured on the 30th Annual Gardens for Connoisseurs Tour Saturday and Sunday, May 10 -11.

A dog found shot seven times and left to die in a dumpster in southwest Atlanta has died.

A horrible case of animal abuse. A dog is thrown in a dumpster and left for dead after being shot seven times.

A man from south Atlanta was arrested early Saturday morning after Smyrna Police say he threw drug paraphernalia out of a car window and fled from officers.

Patch Staff Report In a press release from the City of Atlanta on Wednesday, Moody's Investors Service has announced that Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport's general revenue bonds have been upgraded to Aa3 from A1 on the airport passenger facility charge and subordinate lien revenue bonds.

A rising spoken word artist took an audience by storm with her win of Roswell's 10th annual Poetry Slam.

Atlanta, Ga.' s underground commercial sex economy is unusually large, with a lucrative market for street prostitution, according to a new study on sex trafficking and sex work in U.S. cities.

Tesla, which has been selling directly to shoppers at two locations in New Jersey for about a year, will be forced by state officials there to sell cars through a franchised car dealership, reports CNN .

This modern Atlanta home is about to hit the big screen in director Tyler Perry's new movie, The Single Moms Club , this week.

A new type of biomolecular tweezers could help researchers study how mechanical forces affect the biochemical activity of cells and proteins.

Patch Staff Report The local organization, North Atlanta Parents for Public Schools , is looking for committed parents in its school cluster willing to serve on its board and/or sub-committees.

Fado is right in the heart of buckhead. I have spent some of my most favorite St. Patrick's Day's here.

USA Today has published a listicle of the "10 Best Foodie Restaurants in Atlanta" that is, well, a little bizarre.

"Art to me is the ability to transcend the physical world with the thoughts and dreams that you have on a daily basis."

Atlanta police say armed men robbed a Cheshire Bridge Road convenience store early Tuesday morning.

First Slice 3/11/14: Georgia's DOC accused of giving former lethal injection doctor special treatment in property deal Questions are being raised over whether Dr. Carlo Musso, a former lethal injection doctor for the Georgia Department of Corrections, received special treatment in purchasing a 700-bed prison for half of its estimated value.

In partnership with Disney's THE LION KING and Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta, four iconic masks and a puppet from the world famous Broadway musical will soon be on display for Atlanta fans to enjoy.

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