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Hawks look forward to Celtics series shifting to games at State Farm Arena

ATLANTA — The Hawks know that at this point of the season, every game is important. They’ve lost their first two games of their Eastern Conference playoffs first-round series against the Celtics. So, they know that Friday’s Game 3 carries serious implications.

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Autopsy: Gunshot residue ‘not seen’ on activist killed at police training center

ATLANTA — Gunshot residue was “not seen” on the hands of an activist killed in January by Georgia State Patrol troopers at the site of Atlanta’s planned public safety training center, according to an autopsy report released late Wednesday by the DeKalb County Medical Examiner’s Office.

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Could employee ownership help narrow the racial wealth gap?

ATLANTA — Nijil Jones is practically giddy taking a large cardboard box out of an industrial fridge. Inside the chilled box are what Jones calls the best pecans in Georgia.

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Column: How to be a better grandpa

When I first contacted the Cool Grandpa, he was in North Carolina doing what lots of cool grandpas do — attending his granddaughter’s first birthday party. We set up time to talk once the festivities were over and he had arrived back home to metro Atlanta.

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'Too much to learn': Schools race to catch up kids' reading

Many American third graders aren't reading well — and that poses an urgent problem

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ABC renews ‘Will Trent’ for a second season

ATLANTA — ABC will bring back crime drama “Will Trent” for a second season, buoyed by a positive reaction from viewers and relatively robust ratings.

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Former executive pleads guilty to bribing Atlanta officials

A former executive for a longtime city of Atlanta vendor has pleaded guilty to paying bribes in exchange for millions of dollars in city contracts and to paying bribes to an official in a neighboring county

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Can the Boston Celtics sweep the Atlanta Hawks in their first-round series?

Will the boost the home crowd could provide be enough to lift Atlanta to a win?

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Jaylen Brown on Celtics’ play vs. Hawks, Derrick White’s impact, and how his hand feels

"I think that we took a good shot from Atlanta, and I think that we executed down the stretch," said Brown.

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Where’s Walker? After Senate run, Herschel mostly out of sight

ATLANTA — Herschel Walker might be one of the most recognizable figures in Georgia. He also might be one of the least visible.

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Charles Stanley, whose Christian broadcasts spanned the world, dies at 90

His "In Touch with Dr. Charles Stanley," a Christian teaching program, first aired on the Christian Broadcasting Network in 1978. He was senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta for 50 years.

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Fulton prosecutors offered immunity deals to some GOP electors

ATLANTA — The Fulton County district attorney’s office has offered immunity deals to some of the alternate GOP electors who met at the Georgia Capitol and cast phony Electoral College votes for Donald Trump following the 2020 election.

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Former Notre Dame coach Mike Brey to join staff of NBA’s Atlanta Hawks

While he was an assistant at Duke, Brey coached current Hawks head coach Quinn Snyder.

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No consequences so far after Trump supporters copied Georgia election data

ATLANTA — Caught by surveillance video, text messages and emails, overwhelming evidence shows that supporters of then-President Donald Trump copied Georgia’s statewide voting software from an election office in rural Coffee County in early 2021.

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The Conversation

The presidential campaign of Convict 9653

On April 4, 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the indictment of former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump on 34 felony charges related to alleged crimes involving bookkeeping on a 7-year-old hush money payment to an adult film actress.

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Atlanta Hawks at Boston Celtics: How to watch, broadcast, lineups (Game 2)

The Celtics will look to take a 2-0 series lead against the Hawks as the series shifts to Atlanta for two games after Tuesday, while their opponent will hope to build off of the spark they saw in the second half of Game 1.

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‘Wings for All’ introduces flyers with special needs to Atlanta airport

ATLANTA — Lakeya McNeal hasn’t yet taken her son Austin on an airline flight, even though she and her husband travel frequently and the 4-year-old boy loves airplanes.

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US tax breaks lure European clean tech companies as EU lags

Norwegian battery startup Freyr is planning its next factory in an Atlanta suburb because a new U.S. clean energy law offers generous tax credits for local production

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Kansas City Royals show some fight, battling back late before losing to Atlanta Braves

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mixed martial artist Max Holloway visited the Royals’ clubhouse ahead of Sunday’s game against Atlanta, shaking hands with players a day after his win at UFC Kansas City.

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Atlanta’s Trae Young points to defense as key for Hawks in future first round tilts with Celtics

The plan is solid. The execution to date, less so.

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Hawks’ Dejounte Murray believes Atlanta’s second half vs. Boston Celtics a model to build on

'I think you turn you turn a negative into a positive, and the positive is how we finished that game,' said Murray.

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Men who wrongly spent decades in prison get no help from Georgia lawmakers

ATLANTA — In February 2021, Terry Talley walked out of Dooly State Prison after a judge overturned four convictions that sent him there 40 years earlier.

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‘It starts with him,’ says Joe Mazzulla of Marcus Smart’s defensive masterpiece vs. Atlanta

"He was physical," said Mazzulla postgame. "His pickup points were great."

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Urban League warns of extremism in State of Black America report

ATLANTA — When two young, Black, and outspoken state representatives were expelled earlier this month by the Tennessee legislature for joining a protest against gun violence, Marc H. Morial saw an alarming pattern.

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Kemp makes case for anyone but Trump in 2024

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp delivered a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump on Saturday as he urged national Republican leaders to set aside the former president’s obsession with his 2020 election defeat and focus on issues that can attract broader support.

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