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A Cobb County creek is at its flood stage and an Alpharetta waterway is almost there, the National Weather Service said.

CBS Atlanta News confirmed that the driver of the bus that crashed while carrying the Morehouse College band died Tuesday afternoon.

One of the gorillas at Zoo Atlanta has been under pressure lately. Zoo keepers, along with undergraduate students from Georgia Tech and reseachers from Emory University, got a western lowland gorilla named Ozzie to voluntarily have his blood pressure taken by a machine students designed called the Gorilla Tough Cuff.

Preservationists fear for Morris Brown College and Herndon Plaza, headquarters of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co.

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Emory University Rollins School of Public Health researchers will present Nov. 10 on a range of topics at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in Philadelphia, including a study that examined compliance with national recommendations that a physician screen chest pain patients within 10 minutes of their arrival to the Emergency ...

From the Rome News-Tribune - DRIVING HOME the lesson that the best way to keep government out of our lives is not to need to ask it for anything in the first place, the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority recently demanded that those occupying some of its dwellings not be smokers.

The race for the next mayor of Atlanta is headed for a runoff after no candidate in a crowded field received a majority of the vote.

On Friday, the Buckhead Coalition, North Atlanta's prestigious chamber-type organization, announced its endorsement of Alex Wan, a businessman and civic leader who is seeking the Atlanta City Council District 6 seat.

Arrest warrants were issued Monday for four people in a suspected fraud ring that police say stole a deployed soldier's credit card and ran up more than $6,500 in charges to upgrade the ring's burglary tools.

A fire forced the evacuation of elderly residents of a high rise in Southwest Atlanta Monday.

A three-alarm fire forced the evacuation of a high-rise for senior citizens in southwest Atlanta Monday morning, according to Atlanta fire department officials.

A school bus collided with a car in northwest Atlanta Wednesday afternoon. The crash happened at the intersection of Bankhead Highway and Florence Place.

Shaun's Edgewood Social Club is turning three. To celebrate, the restaurant is hosting a five-course dinner created by Chef Shaun Doty, James Beard Award-winning Chef Louis Osteen, Mixologist Jerry Slater of One Flew South and baker Angie Mosier, who is also president of the Southern Foodways Alliance.

Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Macon, who faced criticism from liberal groups over his misgivings over the so-called public option government-run insurance program, was one of 39 Democrats to vote Saturday evening against the historic health care overhaul at the top of the Obama administration's domestic agenda.

The 57th Fighter Group Restaurant Those with long memories may recall the days when this restaurant operated on the edge of the Peachtree-DeKalb airport.

You would think the media would have election-coverage fatigue. Enlarge photo Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com Mayoral candidates Jesse Spikes, Lisa Borders, Mary Norwood and Kasim Reed prepare minutes for their final debate at WSB studios in Atlanta.

A company spokesman says a Delta plane headed to Philadelphia had to return to the gate just before takeoff from Atlanta because of an engine fire.

An Atlanta city bus driver has been suspended for five days after passengers said he insisted they hold hands as he led them in prayer.