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  • The mother of a Georgia man who died after falling from the upper deck of Turner Field in Atlanta says her son was a lifelong Braves fan.
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  • LeBron James is taking some of his talents during the offseason to a best-selling basketball video game franchise as a music curator.
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  • Crowds chanted "Justice! Justice!" as they rallied in dozens of U.S. cities Saturday, urging authorities to change self-defense laws and press federal civil rights charges against a former neighborhood watch leader found not guilty in the shooting death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin.
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  • A Fulton County judge has refused to dismiss the case against dozens of Atlanta educators accused of conspiring to cheat on standardized tests.
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  • A group of about 100 high school students traveling from New York to Atlanta were thrown off a flight, along with their chaperones, after the pilot and crew lost patience with some kids who wouldn't sit down and put away their cellphones.
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  • Former NBA star Mookie Blaylock is facing charges in a head-on crash in Atlanta that killed a woman, police said Sunday.
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  • 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.
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  • Chris Kelly's Kris Kross rap partner, Chris Smith, was among the well-known musicians, family and friends who gathered Thursday for Kelly's funeral in Atlanta.
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  • A lawyer for Reese Witherspoon says the actress has pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge.
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  • Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo behind one of the decade's most memorable songs, "Jump," has died. He was 34.
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  • Reese Witherspoon recalled that she panicked, said some "crazy things" and even claimed to be pregnant the night she was arrested.
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  • Kris Kross members Chris Mac Daddy Kelly and Chris Daddy Mac Smith. Authorities in Georgia say Kelly died in Atlanta on May 1, 2013. (Photo: yahoo.com)
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  • The British film studio home to the James Bond franchise announced plans Monday for its first U.S. movie production facility at a site near Atlanta.
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  • A court hearing on a disorderly conduct charge is scheduled for actress Reese Witherspoon.
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  • Reese Witherspoon's professional image is so squeaky clean that she got laughs on a late-night show earlier this year.
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  • This combination of undated photo provided by the City of Atlanta Department of Corrections shows Reese Witherspoon, left, her husband James Toth. The Oscar-winning actress was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after a state trooper said she wouldnt stay in the car while Toth was given a field sobriety test in Atlanta. (AP Photo/City of Atlanta Department of Corrections)
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  • Atlanta cheating scandal
  • Former Atlanta schools superintendent Beverly Hall was released from jail after posting bond.
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  • Atlanta cheating scandal
  • Dozens of educators were named in a 65-count indictment that alleges a broad conspiracy involving cheating on standardized tests in Atlanta Public Schools.
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  • When Beverly Hall first arrived in Atlanta as superintendent of the city's public school system, she cautioned she wouldn't be riding in on a white horse and that it would take time to fix the problems of low student performance.
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  • Juwanna Guffie was sitting in her fifth-grade classroom taking a standardized test when, authorities say, the teacher came around offering information and asking the students to rewrite their answers. Juwanna rejected the help.
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  • An Alabama foot doctor said he is grateful for the honesty of a part-time parking cashier at Atlanta's airport, who found $7,000 in cash on the curb outside the international terminal and promptly turned it in.
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  • An Atlanta woman has filed a lawsuit saying basketball Hall of Famer and Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is the father of her teenage son.
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  • A student opened fire at his middle school Thursday afternoon, wounding a 14-year-old in the neck before an armed officer working at the school was able to get the gun away, police said.
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  • An Atlanta man is suing the Georgia Department of Driver Services, contending that his rights were violated.
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  • Authorities outside Atlanta say four children, including an infant, are dead after rescuers tried to save them from a house fire.
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  • Dolphin
  • An 8-year-old Georgia girl says it "really, really hurt" when a dolphin snatched her hand in its mouth while she fed the animal as part of an attraction at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.
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animals, animal attacks, atlanta, orlando, national/world
  • walmart
  • The wife of a shoplifting suspect who died after he was wrestled to the ground outside a Walmart said Tuesday store employees used too much force to subdue him.
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  • The National Transportation Safety Board says an Atlanta helicopter crash killed two police officers.
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  • A jeweler in metro Atlanta is adding some bang to the bling.
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  • Mitt Romney
  • Romney tried to stem criticism and address concern from within his own party over secretly-recorded comments.
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  • Firefighters are battling a blaze at filmmaker Tyler Perry's Atlanta studios, the second fire in the past four months at the complex.
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  • Grammy-winning singer Usher was awarded custody on Friday of his two sons, ending a long legal fight with his ex-wife.
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  • Chick-fil-A set a one-day sales record on Wednesday amid an ongoing controversy over a company executive's public stance against same-sex marriage, company officials said Thursday.
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  • Chick-fil-A supporters are eating at the chicken chain's restaurants as the company continues to be criticized for an executive taking a public position against same-sex marriage.
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  • Usher performs at the BET Awards on Sunday, July 1, 2012, in Los Angeles. / 11-year-old Kile Glover seen in an undated photo posted on Tameka Fosters Twitter page on July 20, 2012.
  • Family and friends are preparing to say their final goodbyes to the 11-year-old stepson of Grammy-winning pop star Usher, three weeks after the child was critically injured in a boating accident on a Georgia lake.
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  • Action News
  • Authorities say an 8-year-old boy was killed and his mother lost part of an arm when engine parts fell off an oncoming semitrailer and crashed through the windshield of their SUV near downtown Atlanta.
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  • Jailers in Atlanta have a challenge for inmates: Get past the new locks being tested on cell doors and win free food.
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  • The 15-year-old daughter of megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar told authorities her father choked and punched her, and hit her with his shoe during an argument over whether she could go to a party, according to a police report.
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  • school bus
  • Police in an Atlanta suburb have enlisted the help of federal agents to examine a rifle dropped by a man who was seen aiming at a school bus and left behind a notebook with bus numbers.
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  • It could be a sign of things to come for a little leaguer in Georgia.
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  • Action News
  • The TSA has given Atlanta's busy airport permission to issue security IDS to workers before background checks are completed because of "extended" delays in the process.
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  • New home for sale
  • Home prices dropped in February in most major U.S. cities for a sixth straight month, a sign that modest sales gains haven't been enough to boost prices.
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home sales, atlanta, chicago, cleveland, business/finance
  • You could have a pot of gold sitting in your attic or basement.
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  • The 9-year-old patient sits still, munching on popcorn and sipping grape juice while he gets an ultrasound of his heart.
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  • Christian singer Jason Crabb might not have won all of the awards he was nominated under, but he certainly came away with the two most prominent categories for a male artist.
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  • Last year was the worst year for measles in the U.S. in 15 years, health officials said Thursday.
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