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South Fulton Mayor Embraces Data Centers, Pits City Against Fulton County

South Fulton Mayor Carmalitha Gumbs says data centers are now a must-have for city revenue, declaring at a recent industry event that they represent the new reality for cities and an economic necessity. Her comments come just weeks after South Fulton let its roughly nine-month moratorium on new data center development
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Georgia families cut food spending, take extra work to afford housing

ATLANTA - Spending less on groceries. Taking on more work. Pulling money from emergency savings. Families are making difficult trade-offs to keep a roof over their heads, according to new research from Habitat for Humanity International. The report, "Home at What Cost?," found that 75% of respondents across 22 countrie
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‘He Did Not Need To Die’: Black Father Demands Answers After 24-Year-Old Son Dies...

The family of 24-year-old David Addo-Wright is demanding answers after he was found unresponsive with several wounds inside his DeKalb County Jail cell less than 48 hours after his arrest.
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COUNTY: A look into the county’s proposed $174M state court project

MARIETTA — The marquee project of Cobb County’s proposed 2028 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax plan is a $174 million state court building officials say is necessary to address overcrowding, security concerns and the changing needs of a growing county. The estimated seven-story, 229,000-square-foot building would
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“I’m a kitty in need of a permanent loving home!”

The Cobb County Courier’s Cat of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a male orange tabby/white domestic short hair. The following information on this potential family member is copied and pasted from the Animal Shelters website. To see the original text visit this link to the Animal Shel
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13-year-old Gwinnett County girl reported missing

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Police are asking for help finding a missing 13-year-old Norcross girl. Evelin E. Inestroza was last seen near her home on Gulf Terrace in Norcross around 5 p.m. on Sept. 29 getting into a blue Toyota Corolla. Inestroza was last seen wearing a...
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Metro Atlanta couple killed as car hydroplanes off I-85

Roswell couple Khasan Umarov, 63, and Khalisa Umarova, 61, died in the crash.
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2777 Briarlake Woods Way, Atlanta, GA 30345

This is the kind of house that makes you question what you thought you wanted. Built in 1976 and designed before algorithms told us what a home should look like... maybe that's why it feels so alive... so unexpected, so rebellious. The roofline is unusual. A long horizontal clerestory window peaking above the shingle s
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Ranking Georgia Tech’s Eight Remaining Games From Least to Most Difficult

In the preseason, the early part of Georgia Tech's schedule was supposed to be the most manageable part. Sure, there was the home game against Tennessee in week
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Devon Horton plea, $63 tab leads to arrest, racers stopped

An expected plea change involving DeKalb County’s former schools superintendent, an alleged attempt to dodge a restaurant bill and a street racing stop are among today's community crime briefs.

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