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Body-worn camera footage released by the Atlanta Police Department captures the moment officers found two missing sisters after their mother reported they had not been returned by a babysitter. Investigators located 42-year-old Lakesha Brown at a property on Sylvan Road, where officers used bolt cutters to open a locked trailer and found 4-year-old Zola Cooper and 11-month-old Norah Cooper with Brown before reuniting them with their mother. Brown was taken into custody and faces kidnapping and child cruelty charges. Full story: 🎥: Atlanta Police Department
Atlanta Journal-Constitution17,840 views • 10 days ago
One hour after the match at the Atlanta Stadium 📹: Kimberly Johnson
Atlanta Journal-Constitution60,641 views • 1 month ago
Stone Mountain Park in Georgia is home to the largest Confederate monument in the world — and one of the most controversial Civil War sites in America. Just outside Atlanta, the park attracts millions of visitors each year but remains at the center of a debate over Confederate history, Southern heritage and racism. Originally built as a tribute to the Confederacy, Stone Mountain features a massive carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. It is also the site where the modern Ku Klux Klan was reborn in 1915, adding to its complex legacy. Each year, Confederate Memorial Day brings descendants of Confederate soldiers to the park. Critics argue the monument and gatherings reflect an effort to romanticize the Confederacy and downplay slavery’s role in the Civil War. Join the AJC's Jaide Garcia as she explores the debate over how Stone Mountain’s history should be told — and what the site should represent today. 👉 To learn more about the impact of Stone Mountain, watch the full Southern identity episode of "Curiosities of the South" now on the AJC YouTube channel — and subscribe for more in-depth stories shaping the region: 🎥: AJC | Getty Images | N2SReports / YouTube | WXIA-TV 📸 : Getty Images | Library of Congress | New York Public Library | Virginia Commonwealth University #stonemountain #civilwar #americanhistory #georgia #news
Atlanta Journal-Constitution70,684 views • 2 months ago
The afternoon of April 8 started like many others at Kolomoki Mounds State Park, a nearly 1,300-acre Native American historic site in remote southwest Georgia. Travelers trickled in and out of the visitor center, as park staff fielded questions about navigating the vast site. Then, at around 2:45 p.m., a bald man wearing glasses walked in carrying a cardboard box. Surveillance video shared with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows him approach the counter, place the box on top and then tell a park staffer, “I believe this belongs here.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution51,068 views • 3 months ago
Thousands of dead fish in the Chattahoochee River are now at the center of a growing investigation in metro Atlanta. After heavy, localized storms overwhelmed the city’s underground sewer tunnels, polluted, low-oxygen water spilled into the river — contributing to what experts say could be one of the worst fish kills in decades. Witnesses described dark, foul-smelling water as conditions quickly turned deadly for aquatic life. The incident is now under investigation, with scrutiny on Atlanta’s infrastructure and how climate-driven storms are stressing the system. The AJC’s Drew Kann reports from the river as officials work to determine what went wrong. 📷 : AJC | Chattahoochee Riverkeeper | Getty Images | City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management #chattahoocheeriver #environment #fishkill #atlanta #georgia
Atlanta Journal-Constitution25,095 views • 2 months ago
Confederate monuments stand across the South, but many trace back to the efforts of one influential organization: the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Beyond funding memorials, the group helped shape how the Civil War was taught in schools and remembered by generations of Americans. The AJC's Koralie Barrau explores how the organization's influence became part of the broader Lost Cause movement and why the debate continues today. 👉 : To learn more about the bigger impact of the UDC, watch the full Southern identity episode of "Curiosities of the South" now on the AJC's YouTube channel — and subscribe for more in-depth stories shaping the region. 🎥: AJC | | WSLS-TV News Film Collection, Trimmed from Original | WXIA-TV 📸: Getty Images | Historic Photographs Collection, Daviess County Public Library | Library of Congress | Richmond Times-Dispatch | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Tennessee State Library and Archives | The Selma Times-Journal | The Times-Picayune | The Virginian-Pilot | United Daughters of the Confederacy
Atlanta Journal-Constitution18,348 views • 2 months ago
The vote took seconds. The journey took decades. The AJC's Drew Kann was in the room in Busan, South Korea, when UNESCO World Heritage Committee members voted to make the Okefenokee Swamp Georgia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site. The decision places the Okefenokee alongside iconic destinations like Yellowstone, Machu Picchu and the Great Barrier Reef — recognition reserved for places considered invaluable to humanity. Read more: 🎥: AJC | Getty Images
Atlanta Journal-Constitution10,276 views • 1 month ago
Mayor Andre Dickens was in Memphis on Friday, when the water woes began, and did not return until Saturday. He started posting updates nearly 24 hours after many city residents started facing reduced water pressure or no service at all. A number of people have said they first learned of Atlanta’s water woes Friday afternoon from performer Megan Thee Stallion, whose State Farm Arena stop was canceled both Friday and Saturday nights. About 2 p.m. Saturday, Dickens made his first public appearance in response to the disaster. Dickens vowed updates would come every two hours until all issues were resolved. Read more: 🎥: drone_golf
Atlanta Journal-Constitution124,514 views • 2 years ago
Atlanta traffic has a villain — and it’s shaped like pasta. Spaghetti Junction, officially the Tom Moreland Interchange, is one of the most infamous traffic bottlenecks in the South, where I‑85 and I‑285 collide. It’s even name‑dropped in Outkast’s “Stankonia.” The five‑level interchange replaced a clogged cloverleaf in the early 1980s, after earning the nickname Malfunction Junction. The redesign from the Georgia Department of Transportation eased congestion for a time, but rapid population growth turned it back into a daily commuting logjam. The AJC’s Jordan Pettiford breaks down how a traffic solution became a lasting problem. 🎥 : AJC | Getty | @throwedoffjaun, @kjackzsupreme/IG | @dajwajj/TT | Outkast | Sony Pictures 📸 : Bita Honavar, Floyd Jillson / AJC #spaghettijunction #atlantatraffic #urbanplanning #atlanta #news
Atlanta Journal-Constitution20,183 views • 4 months ago
“Jimmy Carter 100″ was a beautifully rendered tribute to a son of Georgia 🎂🎉 Admiration and pure joy were the order of the night as musicians across genres came together at the Fox Theatre to celebrate the former president's upcoming 100th birthday:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution59,904 views • 1 year ago
The late Rico Wade, Atlanta hip-hop pioneer, is immortalized through music he produced alongside Organized Noize. Outside his funeral this morning, Clark Atlanta University marching band honored the music producer by playing some of the hits from his legacy career. 🎥 Ryon Horne, Jessica Horne | AJC
Atlanta Journal-Constitution49,335 views • 2 years ago
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