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Atlanta has something for everyone, whether you are the most discerning shopper, an arts aficionado or the diehard sporting enthusiast. The cool, breezy fall weather is a perfect background for you to experience this and more.
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• FAA: Flight-Plan Flub Causing Delays
An electronic communication failure Tuesday at a Federal Aviation Administration facility in Georgia that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the U.S. was causing hundreds of flight delays around the country
• Research Aims to Put Tongues in Control of Devices
Scientists hope to add one more ability to the tongue and turn it into a computer control pad
• Source: Atlanta to get night race for 2009 season
NASCAR will run under the lights at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 2009, The Associated Press has learned.
• Leave gun at home if you're going to Atlanta airport
A federal judge on Monday upheld a gun ban at the world's busiest airport, dealing a blow to gun rights groups who argued a new Georgia law authorized them to pack heat in certain parts of the Atlanta airport.
• Sleepy? Try catching some Z's in a pod
Getting enough rest should be as simple as just shutting your eyes.
• 'Popping' sound forces plane to return to Atlanta
A Delta Air Lines flight en route to Peru was forced to return to Atlanta, Georgia, after attendants heard a loud "popping sound," a Delta spokesman said.
• Police fight a rash of vacant home burglaries
When Atlanta police officers Bryan Ernest and Bernatt Collins get a burglary call, they know that the house they walk into will probably be stripped, right down to the materials inside the walls.
• Tips for protecting your trade secrets
Dear FSB: Can I copyright bread? My wife makes a special kind of bread that's not available in grocery stores. We don't have our own baking facilities and would like to work with a local baker on a contract basis. So the issue is, how can we prevent the baker from stealing and using our recipe?
• Appetite for Atlanta
Food is a huge part of any destination for me, and my home base -- Atlanta, Georgia -- is no exception.
• Making it cool for girls to be confident
Atlanta's East Lake community was a rough place to grow up in 1989, when murder, gangs, poverty, teen pregnancy and drug problems were common.
• Hispanic Job Death Rate Highest
Hispanic workers die at higher rates than other laborers, with 1 in
3 of these deaths occurring in the construction industry
• Peter King: Monday Morning Quarterback
A combo platter of a column, with How I Spent My Weekend in Atlanta, followed by what I loved, and what I scratched my head about after the 2008 draft.
• Delta Blames $6.4B Losses on Fuel
Delta Air Lines, the nation's third-largest carrier, says its loss widened in the first quarter to a whopping $6.39 billion due to soaring fuel prices and the steep decline in the company's market value
• 300 Arrested in Immigration Raids
Nearly 300 people were arrested Wednesday in immigration and identity theft raids at Pilgrim's Pride poultry plants in five states
• Officials identify Atlanta tornado fatality
Authorities have identified a man whose body was found under rubble more than a week after a tornado swept through downtown Atlanta.
• Police to Atlantans: If you can, 'stay out of the city'
Atlanta was scrambling back to normalcy Monday, but city officials warned it could take time to clear the devastation left by a tornado that swept through the city's downtown Friday evening.
• Tornado trashes Atlanta
Waves of severe thunderstorms streaked through downtown Atlanta on Saturday, hours after a tornado left a trail of destruction through the heart of the city.
• Possible tornado hits Atlanta
A possible tornado swept through downtown Atlanta on Friday night, disrupting a college basketball game and damaging the building that houses CNN.
• Delta, Northwest to Vote on Combo
The boards of directors of Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. were expected to vote on a combination provided their pilot unions can reach their own deal
• Scott Wraight: NHL Power Rankings, Week 18
BIGGEST CLIMB: Dallas (7 to 3), Montreal (10 to 6), NYR (22 to 18), Atlanta (25 to 21) BIGGEST FALL: Columbus (19 to 25)
• Kostya Kennedy: YoungStars game a success
ATLANTA -- Bravo to the NHL for giving a little life to its YoungStars game. Last year, as I wrote from Dallas the game was aggressively boring. Seriously. Worse than early Conan. The teams played 10-minute periods of 4-on-4, a too-organized farce that failed in part because of its proximity to being a real game.
• Usher's Father Dies in Atlanta
Usher's father, Usher Raymond III, passed away at an Atlanta hospital on Friday, the R&B star's rep confirms to PEOPLE.
• New suspect arrested in Atlanta police killings
Another suspect wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of two suburban Atlanta police officers this week was arrested Friday, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
• Police: Second suspect arrested in officers' slayings
Police have made a second arrest in the fatal shootings of two off-duty DeKalb County police officers near Atlanta, a police spokeswoman said Thursday.
• Holiday rains spare Atlanta from drought record
Thanks to a rainy holiday season, the Atlanta area stayed just above its historical low-water mark for annual rainfall, the National Weather Service reported.
• Scott Wraight: NHL Power Rankings, Week 13
BIGGEST CLIMB: Atlanta (28 to 21) BIGGEST FALL: S.J. (3 to 9), Boston (5 to 11), Philadelphia (11 to 17)
• How Green is Your Neighborhood?
If we're using fluorescent bulbs and solar panels, but taking 14 car trips a day, how eco-friendly is our lifestyle, really?
• Kids are the experts in reviewing children's books
What William Goldman once said about Hollywood -- "Nobody knows anything" -- can easily describe the decisions made by children's book publishers.
• Atlanta: Bank heist capital of nation
It was an image that got the nation talking: Two giggling young women in oversized sunglasses robbing a bank. The "Barbie Bandits" helped their hometown earn the dubious distinction as the nation's bank robbery capital.
• Healthy gifts can ease stress, improve fitness
A bottle of perfume, a box of candy or a set of pajamas are quick, easy gifts to buy and wrap during the holidays. This year, instead of giving something predictable, why not give the gift of health? The selections are endless, and prices range from expensive to downright cheap. Just imagine the reaction you'll get when you use your imagination.
• Airports Offering Flu Shots
Some major US airports are offering flu shots to travelers as they pass through security checkpoints
• Feds Revising HIV Estimate
Federal health officials are revising their estimate of how many people are infected by HIV each year, and advocacy groups say the number could rise by 35 percent or more
• Usher & Tameka Welcome a Baby Boy
Usher and his wife, Tameka, welcomed a baby boy on Monday night, his rep has confirmed.
• Drought-stricken Georgia says it will sue over water
The state of Georgia, stricken by months of drought, confirmed Friday that it will sue the Army Corps of Engineers.
• Louvre Atlanta: An 'Eye' for the 'Ancient'
Two-hundred thousand visitors later, it's a year since Louvre Atlanta opened at the High Museum of Art.
• 1 Week Per Year Wasted in Traffic
Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study
• Congestion grows, wastes a week each year
Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study released Tuesday.
• Triple-digit temperatures broil Southeast U.S.
Temperatures reached record highs across much of the Southeast on Thursday, while rainy weather cooled off many of the mid-Atlantic states.
• Iraqi refugees to resettle amid fresh trauma of violent past
A white board at the International Rescue Committee in Atlanta shows the origins of the hundreds of refugees the agency has placed in Georgia -- Vietnam, Burma, Iran. Soon, it will add another country, Iraq.
• Rare find: Wayward gator shows up in Atlanta
It wasn't what Nick Lawrimore was casting for when he went to his "secret fishing spot" on the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, but experts say he made a rare find anyway.
• 107 People on TB Flights Need Tests
A man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis had health officials around the world scrambling Wednesday to find about 80 passengers who sat within five rows of him on two trans-Atlantic flights
• The market beater from Atlanta
Not all hotshot money managers are based on Wall Street and its suburban outposts. Take Bowen Hanes & Co., for example. Headquartered in Atlanta, far from the ticker tape of the NYSE, it has establ...
• Don't let disabilities or age rob you of a stylish home
At the Atlanta Home Show, a three-room installation showed off trendy new building supplies, like ceramic tile that mimics weathered wood, high-tech ovens and home security systems. But the installation, called "Safe Home for Life," wasn't trying to sell new plumbing or expensive cabinets.
• Armed man shot across street from CNN Center
An armed man was shot Thursday at around 4 p.m. in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, a spokesperson for the Georgia World Congress Center said.
• Atlanta tops in population growth
Atlanta has been the fastest growing metropolitan area in the nation since 2000, with a gain of nearly 900,000 residents to 5.1 million.
• CNN shooting highlights safety in public workplaces
Deadly shootings recently at Atlanta's CNN Center and the University of Washington's Seattle campus underscore how attackers may target victims who work in public places.
• Crunch time arrives
Note: All statistics are through Sunday.
• Louvre Atlanta: Louis luxury
The first large change-out of artworks in the three-year Louvre Atlanta cycle of exhibitions at the High Museum trades charcoal drawings for cabinetry and sketches for silver.
• Charged up
Note: All statistics are through Sunday.
• Encounter with gunman changed reporter's life
When one of Atlanta's most notorious criminals held journalist Don O'Briant at gunpoint, the incident changed his life.
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