Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado
Atlana Mayor Shirley Franklin opens the second day of the Democratic National Convention in the Pepsi Center in Denver on August 26, 2008. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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The head of the Atlanta police union has been suspended after he allegedly said he wanted to hit Mayor Shirley Franklin in the head with a bat, officials say.
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin told the public she plans to close the city's budget gap partially by leaving 53 police officer positions vacant.
Dangerous storms cut a swath through Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, killing at least two people and causing widespread destruction.
Atlanta's mayor, speaking Monday at a tribute to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., noted historic changes that occurred since King's assassination.
Atlanta police sought a man who allegedly put another man in a coma when an altercation erupted over videotaping of the mayor's daughters outside a nightclub.
An Atlanta fitness trainer was in a coma Friday, two days after he was beaten while he escorted two daughters of Mayor Shirley Franklin.
Sally Field, Eve Ensler, Rosie O'Donnell and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin all turned out for Hollywood icon Jane Fonda's 70th birthday party.
To mark the anniversary of a botched drug raid that killed an elderly woman, Atlanta police announced new policies and a procedural overhaul.
Zoo Atlanta wants to keep its two adult giant pandas beyond the 2009 expiration of the current agreement with China, but not at the current price.
Officials at Atlanta's Morehouse College have said 10,000 items belonging to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will go on display in January.
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