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13+ hour, 34+ min ago   (262+ words) Rainy weather has forced organizers of the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival to cancel one of Saturday's planned events. Festival officials announced Saturday that The Southern Spread x Tasting Tent, scheduled for Saturday afternoon, would not take place because of weather…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago   (10+ words) The annual event drew 280 participants, despite the rainy weather....

3+ hour, 30+ min ago   (286+ words) Sheriff's office spokesperson Rob Moore confirmed that the active ground search was called off shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, after nearly three hours without locating the suspect. Neither agency released the man's identity at the time the search was suspended, and authorities…...

5+ hour, 5+ min ago   (332+ words) Atlanta police are asking the public to help identify a man caught on surveillance video breaking into a Midtown restaurant on Crescent Avenue and walking off with three bottles of alcohol. Officers responded to 1136 Crescent Ave NE after an audible…...

5+ hour, 11+ min ago   (231+ words) By the time the scene was under control, eight people in all — four adults and four children — had been taken to hospitals for smoke inhalation and minor burns, the station reported. Roughly a dozen families were displaced from the complex,…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (262+ words) Dancers at Pink Pony, the Brookhaven gentlemen's club, say they were forced to pay hundreds of dollars a night out of their own earnings just to work a shift — sometimes walking away with nothing at all. A newly filed federal…...

5+ hour, 41+ min ago   (185+ words) A former gas station turned taproom on Jesse Jewell Parkway is about to become a pink-walled diner serving brunch, lunch and dinner. Caroline's All Day is targeting an October or November opening at 400 Jesse Jewell Pkwy in downtown Gainesville, taking…...

9+ hour, 54+ min ago   (205+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta The Atlanta Beltline has expanded its small-business incubator program to 13 businesses, adding entrepreneurs offering everything from vegan food and desserts to fashion, gifts, specialty foods and haircuts. The Atlanta Beltline Marketplace program provides affordable commercial…...

5+ hour, 57+ min ago   (169+ words) The Electrek article cited above concerns an unrelated Colorado case involving a Rivian owner's Road Cam footage, not the Moreno Gutierrez crash. Moreno Gutierrez was a cyclist. An obituary for him is available on Legacy.com. The medical examiner determined…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (331+ words) A person was shot and killed Friday at an apartment complex in Atlanta's Collier Heights neighborhood, police said. The shooting happened at 2798 Peek Road NW, according to Atlanta police. As reported by Atlanta News First, the story was developing. The…...