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  • The headmaster of a school in Georgia says he plans to cancel classes because of great weather.
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  • The way the stars aligned inside a Georgia planetarium caught the 22-year-old woman by surprise, spelling out the question: "Krystal Sanderson Will You Marry Me?"
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  • A slow-speed chase is underway for Zip, a missing 50-pound pet tortoise.
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  • A Georgia teen who was abducted by two gunmen during a home invasion Tuesday morning has been found.
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  • Authorities say two firefighters suffered minor injuries while battling a fire that filled part of a terminal at Atlanta's airport with heavy smoke.
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  • A woman whose family once took in the suspect in an Atlanta-area school shooting said Wednesday that he was mentally ill but never violent in the past.
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  • A man with an assault rifle and other weapons exchanged gunfire with officers Tuesday at an Atlanta-area elementary school before surrendering.
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  • 20-year-old charged in Ga. school shooting
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  • No more paying it forward for the driver behind you at the Georgia 400 toll plaza.
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  • A federal judge in Georgia has thrown out race discrimination claims by a former Savannah restaurant manager whose lawsuit against Paula Deen ended up causing the celebrity cook to lose a big slice of her culinary empire.
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  • Authorities say an Atlanta area man has been arrested after he was accused of beheading two puppies.
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  • A suspect wanted in the rape of a minor in Georgia was found working on a farm in Berks County.
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  • Authorities say an ambulance with its lights and sirens on has collided with a semitrailer on a Georgia highway, killing the two medics and the patient on board.Authorities say an ambulance with its lights and sirens on has collided with a semitrailer on a Georgia highway, killing the two medics and the patient on board.
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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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  • A man is hospitalized after he was freed from a northwest Georgia cave -- one of the nation's deepest -- after a nearly 24-hour rescue effort.
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  • Federal authorities are investigating after a Boeing 747 on approach to Atlanta's airport lost parts from its right wing that landed on a woman's house.
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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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  • 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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  • Two Georgia teenagers pleaded not guilty Thursday to murdering a baby who was shot in the face during what authorities described as an attempted street robbery.
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  • Tiger Woods still has a chance to win the Masters.
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  • Tiger Woods got a reprieve Saturday in the Masters when he was given a two-shot penalty for a bad drop but allowed to stay in the tournament.
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  • A gaping hole exposed wooden beams and insulation on one side of a house Thursday where a gunman held four firefighters hostage for hours before being killed in a shootout with SWAT officers.
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  • A Georgia man unleashed his two pit bulls on a neighbor's pet pig that got loose in a mobile home park, then stabbed the animal 15 to 20 times in front of children and other onlookers, authorities said.
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  • Georgia school to hold segregated proms
  • If you thought racial segregation was a thing of the past here in the United States, sadly, that is not so.
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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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  • Backers of a newly adopted ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights.
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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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  • Action News
  • Police in coastal Georgia say a toddler has died after being attacked by seven dogs.
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  • The lawyer for one of the Georgia teenagers suspected in the shooting death of a baby who was in his stroller on a walk with his mother said Monday his client is "absolutely" not guilty.
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  • The mother of a baby gunned down in his stroller says she has no doubt a teenage suspect is the man who killed her 13-month-old.
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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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  • Authorities were investigating after a small jet crashed off the end of a runway after landing in eastern Georgia.
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  • A driver in Georgia crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on killing himself and four others, including a 1-year-old boy.
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  • An emergency official says a fiery pileup involving more than two dozen vehicles on a Georgia interstate has left at least three people dead and 12 others hurt.
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  • Kandi Cash trudged in rain through the splintered debris of her grandparents' home, hoping to salvage photos and other keepsakes after violent storms and tornadoes scoured the Southeast, leaving two people dead before bringing rain and frigid weather to the Northeast on Thursday.
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  • Will Carter, 15, surveys the damage to his house upon arriving home from school following a tornado, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in Adairsville, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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  • A massive storm system raked the Southeast on Wednesday, generating tornadoes and dangerous winds that flipped cars on a major Georgia interstate, demolished homes and businesses and killed at least two people.
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  • Officials say two men have been charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of chicken wings from a Georgia warehouse.
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  • It's no way to get a date.
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  • Action News
  • In the 40 years he served as coroner, Dr. James C. Metts Jr. was the man police called in Savannah and the surrounding Chatham County whenever a death needed investigating. Now the 81-year-old physician is the target of an investigation.
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  • A north Georgia man who handcuffed himself to a female Taco Bell co-worker has been sentenced to serve four years in prison.
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  • Health officials say four people in northwest Georgia have been exposed to rabies by a pet llama.
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