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Georgetown is losing one of its notable heavy industry facilities. International Paper announced that its pulp and paper mill location will shut down, a news release from the company said. [...]

Byline: Mark Niesse mark.niesse@ajc.com A roll of the dice Thursday at the Georgia Capitol started a statewide audit of the presidential election, a human review of paper ballots to check [...]

Byline: Zachary Hansen zachary.hansen@ajc.com An icon of Atlantas skyline is set to become one of the citys largest conversion projects, transforming underused office space into shops, restaurants and some of [...]

Byline: Cassidy Alexander - cassidy.alexander@ajc.com The trick to throwing the perfect toilet paper arc over a tree has three steps: Unravel 2 or 3 feet of the roll. Hold it [...]

Byline: James Salzer - James.Salzer@ajc.com Two years after a plunge in the stock market dropped the value of Georgias massive teacher, university and state employee pension systems by $15 billion, [...]

Car dealerships in North America continue to wrestle with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a software company used widely in the auto retail sales sector. CDK [...]

PARIS Novak Djokovic has decided to have surgery for a medial meniscus tear in his right knee and could miss Wimbledon, the French newspaper LEquipe reported Wednesday, without citing a [...]

The trial of 27 people charged in connection with the worldwide Panama Papers money laundering started in a Panamanian criminal court. Those on trial include the owners of the Mossack-Fonseca [...]

Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon [...]

Byline: Alexis Stevens - alexis.stevens@ajc.com SMYRNA Two Smyrna police officers are recovering after someone brought in paperwork investigators believe contained a substance that left them suffering from extreme fatigue, chest [...]

I wish supporters of Donald Trump would take a realistic look at what they are getting. While he has the image of a swashbuckling strongman who can just wave his [...]

Byline: Riley Bunch - riley.bunch@ajc.com ATLANTA Legislation that would outline the process the city of Atlanta must go through to verify a citizen-led petition for a ballot referendum was held [...]

Byline: Leon Stafford - leon.stafford@ajc.com LOCAL IN-DEPTH EDUCATION Under normal circumstances, Henry County teacher Samantha Hawthrones third-graders would pull out their Chromebooks when building pie charts and histograms. But last [...]

Every ballot in Georgia is printed on a special type of paper that includes a security feature that can be used to check its authenticity. The ballot paper is manufactured [...]

Byline: Mark Niesse - Mark.Niesse@ajc.com GEORGIA ELECTIONS Georgia voters could choose to fill out paper ballots by hand instead of using touchscreens in polling places under a bill proposed Tuesday [...]

Byline: Tamar Hallerman - Tamar.Hallerman@ajc.com TRUMP INDICTED IN GEORGIA One of the defendants in the Fulton elections interference case is pursuing a unique legal strategy: trying to prove that former [...]

Byline: H.M. Cauley - For the AJC FAYETTE PEACHTREE CITY A STEM program at J.C. Booth Middle in Peachtree City gave Lara Ysabel Otico the inspiration for an award-winning idea. [...]

Byline: Zachary Hansen - zachary.hansen@ajc.com and Drew Kann - drew.kann@ajc.com ENVIRONMENT Lawyers for DuPont argued in court Monday that the company paid more to settle a toxic contamination case in [...]

Byline: Mark Niesse - Mark.Niesse@ajc.com ELECTIONS The State Election Board unanimously rejected a proposed ballot secrecy rule Tuesday that would have allowed Georgia voters to fill out ballots by hand [...]

Byline: Mark Niesse - Mark.Niesse@ajc.com ELECTIONS The right to a secret ballot, free from prying eyes of nosy neighbors or election workers, is supposed to be protected by the Georgia [...]

A Maine paper mill is asking local residents for cardboard to turn into packaging because of the rising cost of the raw materials it typically uses. ND Paper in Old [...]

Who knew that when Eagles defensive back Jalen Mills defended Julio Jones in the end zone on a fourthdown play Jan. 13, 2018, it would be the end of an [...]

Byline: Justin Toscano - justin.toscano@ajc.com BRAVES: IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS ALL SEASON LONG STORYLINES TO WATCH On opening day, every team is 0-0. Fans all around the sport have optimism. Nothing has [...]

Byline: Mark Niesse Mark.Niesse@ajc.com GEORGIA SENATE RUNOFF The U.S. Senate runoff was being audited Wednesday and Thursday in most Georgia counties, where election workers will count paper ballots by hand [...]

Byline: Jozsef Papp jozsef.papp-chang@ajc.com and Shaddi Abusaid shaddi.abusaid@ajc.com FULTON COUNTY A potential Fulton County juror held in contempt after traveling to the Dominican Republic instead of returning to court last [...]

Byline: Candice Dyer - For the AJC BOOKS & AUTHORS BYRON HERBERT REECE Poems (old and new) Mostly inferior. Publish none without my consent. BHR May 1956. A hand-scrawled note [...]

Byline: Suzanne Van Atten - suzanne.vanatten@ajc.com HOLIDAY GIFTS BOOKS When it comes to coffee-table books, photography often figures prominently because its a natural fit. This years crop of books is [...]

Byline: Christopher Quinn Paper goods giant Georgia-Pacific is cranking out 1.5 million more rolls of toilet paper a day than two months ago, but George Bugg still can't find it [...]

Byline: Phil Kloer - For the AJC VISUAL ARTS THE HIGH Since 1995 he has stood outside the High Museum on Peachtree Street, a dark bronze male figure, larger than [...]

Byline: Alia Malik - alia.malik@ajc.com METRO ATLANTA In a handful of cases, federally funded emergency rental assistance programs in metro Atlanta have been defrauded by people posing as landlords or [...]

While its true that Mike Luckovichs sad cartoon of Lady Liberty crying for 9/11 did reflect the feelings of a majority of Americans, it certainly is untrue of the majority [...]

Byline: Mark Niesse - Mark.Niesse@ajc.com VOTING A group of computer scientists and election integrity advocates are calling for Georgia to abandon voting touchscreens and conduct more audits of this falls [...]

Byline: Ligaya Figueras L approach the running of Southern Bistro, their Sandy Springs restaurant, during this current public health crisis. 'I've been here 15 years, and it's been a challenge [...]

Byline: J.D. Capelouto DeKalb officials are asking residents to participate in an annual food drive to benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank. Commissioner Kathie Gannon is partnering with District Attorney [...]

Byline: Caroline Silva - caroline.silva@ajc.com ATLANTA An Atlanta rapper has been sentenced to federal prison after he fled from police with a gun last year while officers attempted to arrest [...]

Byline: Bo Emerson - bemerson@ajc.com BOOKS & AUTHORS THE ATLANTA DAILY INTELLIGENCER& Lt. William Hoyle Nesbit, 21, was languishing in a Virginia hospital after having his arm shot off in [...]

Byline: Tamar Hallerman - Tamar.Hallerman@ajc.com CONTINUING COVERAGE FULTON COUNTY A recent subpoena sent to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution underscores a Fulton County special grand jurys interest in the abrupt resignation of [...]

Byline: J. Scott Trubey - scott.trubey@ajc.com MEDIA The Atlanta Journal-Constitution announced Tuesday it will expand its coverage of climate change in Georgia, thanks to new philanthropic support from a pair [...]

Byline: Carolyn Desalu NEW YEAR GETTING ORGANIZED& How is your year starting off? For people looking for a way to promote selfcare and make life simpler in 2022, daily paper [...]

&NOTE TO READERS YOUR SUNDAY PAPER Today, were excited to unveil a new digital sports magazine called Sports Insider, which you can find in our ePaper each Sunday. This new [...]

Novak Djokovics lawyers filed court papers Saturday in his challenge against deportation from Australia that show the tennis star tested positive for COVID-19 last month and recovered, grounds he used [...]

WEEK 1 Georgia 10 Clemson 3 In the Dukes Mayo Classic, the No. 5 Bulldogs relished the chance to take a bite out of the No. 3 Tigers, whose offense [...]

Hard to understand why the AJC does not play up President Bidens accomplishments, like letting in millions of new workers to solve the lack of workers issue. Reducing gasoline prices& [...]

Byline: Kenneth H. Thomas Jr. GENEALOGY The holidays are good times to share family stories. The Mecklenburg Genealogical Society, based in Charlotte, N.C., has created another way for people to [...]

Interesting how the AJC puts the Ahmaud Arbery case on the headlines, but the 8-year-old Black child Kayden Jones, killed in Atlanta, gets lower billing. I guess if its Black-on-Black [...]

Byline: Ken Sugiura | ken.sugiura@ajc.com Georgia Tech absorbed defeat for a fourth consecutive game, losing 41-30 to Boston College on Saturday at Bobby Dodd Stadium. The Yellow Jackets were outgained [...]

Byline: Bo Emerson If things seem a little spookier at the Emory Library, thats because Dracula is in the house. The immortal bloodsucker is prominently displayed in an exhibit at [...]

Transparency advocates are calling on Britain to tighten the countrys defenses against money laundering and tax avoidance after a massive leak of financial data showed how London is a key [...]

Byline: Mark Niesse BALLOTS& CONTINUING COVERAGE: ELECTIONS& Georgia added paper ballots to in-person voting last year. Less than half of voters checked them for accuracy. Thats according to a study [...]

Byline: Matt Kempner INDUSTRY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Coca-Cola is choosing paper over plastic in a tiny sales trial involving a drink in a paper bottle. It doesnt involve the curvy, [...]