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August 16, 2019 at 1:26 am

Officers stake out 2 airports, nab accused turtle trafficker

ATLANTA (AP) — An investigation involving two of the world's biggest airports and hundreds of turtles has led to federal charges that a man illegally...

August 14, 2019 at 6:43 am

Flooded Mississippi a threat as hurricane season heats up VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The river that drains much of the flood-soaked United States is still running higher than normal, menacing New Orleans in multiple...

Kai Frazier, a resident of Aiken, South Carolina, cools off while playing in the Fountain of Rings in Centennial Olympic Park, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Andrea Smith) GAAS103 GAAS103

August 13, 2019 at 6:03 am

Dreadful heat, humidity invade South as misery continues

ATLANTA (AP) — Stifling heat smothered states from Texas to South Carolina on Tuesday with temperatures that felt like 120 degrees (49 Celsius), making it...

Nation & World

August 12, 2019 at 7:12 am

Parts of South and Midwest grapple with dangerous heat wave

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Forecasters are warning about days of scorching, dangerous heat gripping a wide swath of the U.S. South and Midwest, where the...

August 8, 2019 at 9:10 am

Atlanta bans electric scooters at night, after deadly wrecks

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta is banning electric scooters in the nighttime hours during what's been a deadly summer for riders. The ban comes as cities...

Business

August 7, 2019 at 11:01 am

Man accused of selling guns to buyers in US and Mexico

Prosecutors are charging an Alabama man with illegal gun sales in a case that involves weapons advertised online at Armslist.com and shipped to buyers in...

August 6, 2019 at 11:20 am

White man pleads guilty to burning cross in Mississippi town

A white man has admitted in federal court that he burned a wooden cross in an effort to frighten black families in a small Mississippi...

August 1, 2019 at 4:58 am

Atlanta to add context about racism to historic monuments

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta will soon add some vivid lessons about the South's racist history on markers placed next to four historic monuments amid the...

July 25, 2019 at 11:11 am

Toddler spins, scrambles on wild ride on airport bag belt

ATLANTA (AP) — Dramatic video shows a toddler who climbed onto a conveyor belt scrambling over suitcases during his wild ride on a luggage chute...

Rowdy Schouest clears debris following Tropical Storm Barry, in Franklin, La., on July 14, 2019. After a brief life as a Category 1 hurricane, Barry was downgraded to a tropical storm as it made landfall and continued to weaken, moving slowly north over the state as life-threatening flooding rains remained the primary threat. (Bryan Thomas/The New York Times) XNYT114 XNYT114

July 14, 2019 at 10:18 pm

Final blast of torrential rains unleashed by weakened Barry VIEW

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical Depression Barry spared New Orleans and Baton Rouge from catastrophic flooding, but even as it weakened and moved north through...