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Atlanta police release sketch in assault, burglary case

Atlanta police have released a sketch of a man suspected to have assaulted a woman in her home during a burglary Thursday morning.
  • Fulton jail inmate dies after seizures
  • Atlanta city attorney: Cash for unused leave puts city at legal risk
  • Ex-DeKalb commissioner Boyer will get full pension benefits
  • Police chief arrest on sex charges shocks officials in two cities
  • Time drags awaiting verdict in DeKalb CEO Ellis trial
  • Bond for 1 student in toilet paper prank; immigration hold for 2nd
  • DeKalb CEO Ellis jurors end 7th day of deliberations with no verdict
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Schuerholz on report of Hart declining GM job: “Not accurate”

Braves president John Schuerholz read a Yahoo Sports report that said interim general manager John Hart has turned down the Braves’ offer to take the job full-time, prompting the team to focus on assistant GM John Coppolella and Royals GM Dayton Moore as its primary targets for the position.

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Walter Victor, World War II vet and Braves photographer, dead at 97

The Braves family lost one of its most beloved and esteemed members Tuesday with the death of longtime former team photographer Walter Victor, a decorated World War II veteran who fought in the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Normandy on June 6, 1944.

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Tech’s Thomas, Smelter to play, Leggett won’t

Georgia Tech quarterback Justin Thomas and wide receiver DeAndre Smelter, who had missed the first two days of practice this week after suffering injuries in the Duke game, returned to practice Wednesday.

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US steps up domestic response to Ebola crisis

The federal government is ramping up its response to the Ebola crisis after a second Dallas nurse became ill and it was disclosed that she had been cleared to fly a day before her diagnosis.
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US steps up domestic response to Ebola crisis

The federal government is ramping up its response to the Ebola crisis after a second Dallas nurse became ill and it was disclosed that she had been cleared to fly a day before her diagnosis.

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Fed Reserve chair to tour Boston-area job center

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is visiting the Boston area to tour a local job center and to speak at a conference on economic opportunity, as the central bank's first female head continues her focus on employment issues in her first year in office.

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Pilot funding returns arts to California prisons

Christopher Bisbano leaps onto the stage and his body transforms: He cries out for his true love, and then contorts his face into a droopy pout as the audience bellows with laughter.

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First Japan passenger jet in 4 decades rolling out

The first made in Japan passenger jet in four decades reaches a development milestone later this week.
  • Hong Kong leader ready to meet with students
  • Fresh scuffles between Hong Kong police, activists
  • Exodus campaign to Berlin sparks outrage in Israel
  • Thai soaps trigger outcry over romanticizing rape
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Falling gas prices likely to drop even more

That pickpocket in the pump is getting a bit less greedy as autumn goes on, and that means consumers will be keeping a bit more as the holiday season approaches.
  • Walmart to hire 400 for S. Fulton facility
  • All eyes on Georgia jobless rate announced Thursday
  • Hartsfield-Jackson begins screening West Africa passengers for Ebola
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First Japan passenger jet in 4 decades rolling out

The first made in Japan passenger jet in four decades reaches a development milestone later this week.
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  • Exodus campaign to Berlin sparks outrage in Israel
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  • Statewide push aims to get more jobs for developmentally disabled
  • Fulton jail inmate dies after seizures
  • Atlanta police release sketch in assault, burglary case
  • Atlanta city attorney: Cash for unused leave puts city at legal risk
  • Frieden under fire as Ebola fight stumbles
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  • Police, family seeks answers on why man shot 4 relatives
  • Police, family seeks answers on why man shot 4 relatives
  • Bond for 1 student in toilet paper prank; immigration hold for 2nd
  • Gwinnett considering new textbooks
  • 3 dead, 2 injured in Gwinnett Co. murder-suicide
  • 3 dead, 2 injured in Gwinnett Co. murder-suicide
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  • Latest Ebola patient cleared to travel with elevated temperature
  • Latest Ebola patient cleared to travel with elevated temperature
  • Ex-DeKalb commissioner Boyer will get full pension benefits
  • DeKalb Co. woman fearful for family in Liberia after 2nd US woman diagnosed with Ebola
  • DeKalb Co. woman fearful for family in Liberia after 2nd US woman diagnosed with Ebola
  • Time drags awaiting verdict in DeKalb CEO Ellis trial
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  • McCain rallies veterans for Perdue, rejects ‘amnesty’ claim
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  • Court: Cobb parents can be held liable for Facebook defamation
  • Cheek amends ethics complaint against Cobb chairman
  • NWS confirms 2nd metro Atlanta tornado; cancels remaining watches
  • Man, 20, gets 20-year sentence for stealing iPod
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  • APS parent: ‘Don’t make my baby out to be a monster’
  • AT&T ups race to provide faster home Internet in Atlanta
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Atlanta police release sketch in assault, burglary case

Atlanta police have released a sketch of a man suspected to have assaulted a woman in her home during a burglary Thursday morning.
  • Fulton jail inmate dies after seizures
  • Atlanta city attorney: Cash for unused leave puts city at legal risk
  • Police chief arrest on sex charges shocks officials in two cities
  • Time drags awaiting verdict in DeKalb CEO Ellis trial
  • Bond for 1 student in toilet paper prank; immigration hold for 2nd
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