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Amid weeks of unrest in Iran, Emory University School of Medicine Dean Sandra Wong announced in an email to medical school faculty on Jan. 24 that a doctor who is also the daughter of a senior Iranian government official is no longer a University employee. The announcement follows a Jan....

GEORGIA, USA — Ice is starting to form on some roads in metro Atlanta after freezing rain fell overnight. 11Alive's traffic team, Rachel Cox-Rosen and Doug Turnbull, are reporting on the outlook of travel conditions across the areas as ice accumulates on some powerlines, trees and streetlights. The formation of the...

Fallen trees and power lines are causing significant hazards in Southwest Atlanta as ice continues to accumulate. Local officials have identified trees as the most vulnerable infrastructure during this storm. On Children's Drive, a 60-foot tree collapsed across the roadway, severing power lines and completely...

Emergency management coordinators across the metro began sharing updates as ice continued to build Sunday morning.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — “If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That’s really bad. That’s where you go to work.”. That’s from no less an expert on weather emergencies than Craig Fugate, who as administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) popularized the Waffle House index...

ATLANTA — Attorneys for the estate of Cornelius Taylor have filed a second civil lawsuit following his death. Taylor was killed during a homeless encampment sweep last January as a construction vehicle was clearing a site near Ebenezer Baptist Church. A Fulton County medical examiner said Taylor died from "blunt...

ATLANTA — Metro Atlanta and north Georgia are bracing Saturday for the arrival in full of a potentially major winter storm — maybe, even, one that winds up ranking among the city's most historic. The hope, of course, is that the expected icing won't create the kind of...

Fulton County prosecutors will not move ahead with felony charges against an environmental advocate who took a notebook belonging to the state’s largest electrical utility during a regulatory hearing late last year. Patty Durand was accused of stealing trade secrets when, during a break in public hearings before the...

The Atlanta Department of Transportation is mobilizing to brine major roadways in between rain showers.

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