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SportsATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Dream know they are coming home for Game 6 of the WNBA Finals. They just do not know which building they will play in. Golden State beat the Dream 67-62 on Saturday to even the best-of-seven series at two games…
SportsATLANTA, Ga. — The Falcons gave San Francisco its first defeat of the season on Sunday in Atlanta, beating the 49ers 29-20 behind three touchdown throws from Michael Penix Jr. and a defense that took the ball away four times. Atlanta turned those takeaways into…
From the HERE City State DeskATHENS, Ga. — Georgia moved back into the top tier of college football without playing a down. The idle Bulldogs rose two places to No. 3 in Sunday's national media poll, and that ranking would hand them a first-round bye if the 12-team College Football…
Events
ATLANTA, Ga. — The sound of old Havana is headed for Peachtree Street. Buena Vista Social Club, the musical that has won both Tony and Grammy awards, opens at the Fox Theatre in Midtown Atlanta on Tuesday night, Oct. 27, and plays through Sunday, Nov. 1. The show tells the…
Events
ATLANTA, Ga. — Panda fans who cannot make it to the zoo in person will soon be able to check in on Zoo Atlanta's newest residents from a phone or laptop. The zoo said its PandaCam is coming back, this time trained on giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang.…
Business
CHAMBLEE, Ga. — A vacant 18-story office tower that loomed over Clairmont Road in Chamblee for roughly 50 years was reduced to a pile of rubble Saturday morning in a planned implosion. Charges went off at 7:45 a.m. at 1800 Century Boulevard, near Clairmont Road and Interstate 85 northeast of…
Business
PERRY, Ga. — A day after its first U.S. factory was unveiled at a Middle Georgia political rally, Audi spent Sunday insisting the $4 billion project is a business call about tariffs and market share, not politics. The German luxury brand plans to build premium SUVs at the Middle Georgia…
Politics
ATLANTA, Ga. — An artificial intelligence system got into Georgia's online Elections Data Hub and pulled publicly available voting information, but it never touched the voter registration system, the Secretary of State's office says. State officials and Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI model, both confirmed the episode as…
Politics
ATLANTA, Ga. — Georgia heads into the final week of early voting with more than 1.75 million ballots already in and a parade of national political figures lined up to push their side to the polls before Nov. 3. Through Oct. 24, the count stood at 1,751,151 ballots cast in…
Politics
ATLANTA, Ga. — Georgia drivers will go through Thanksgiving without paying the state fuel tax. Gov. Brian Kemp has stretched the state of emergency that waives the levy until Monday, Nov. 30. The order keeps 33.3 cents off each gallon of gasoline and 37.3 cents off each gallon of diesel.…
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