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Zero Mile Post building to be demolished within year
ACTUAL FACTUAL GEORGIA: Zero Mile Post marks city’s start
Photos: Tex McIver murder trial witnesses
Photos: Tex McIver murder trial witnesses
Map: The route of Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral procession
Map and database: Comparing the health of HBCUs
Georgia irresistible to true-crime podcasts
The Atlanta Federal Penitentiary’s Hollywood connections
PHOTOS: Atlanta Federal Penitentiary at the movies
PHOTOS: Atlanta Sister Cities and why we're paired
Photos: Irma’s wake of destruction along Georgia, nearby Florida
Photos: Irma’s aftermath in Georgia, Day 2
Photos: Confederate memorials in metro Atlanta
Photos: The legacy of Marietta's McNeel Marble Company
Photos: Meet Pacman, the super star drug-sniffing dog
Photos: Memories of segregated Bailey-Johnson School
50 years ago, segregated school in North Fulton was ‘my bond, my family’
Photos: Memories of segregated Bailey-Johnson School
Photos: Memories of segregated Bailey-Johnson School
Photos: Memories of segregated Bailey-Johnson School
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The building housing the Zero Mile Post, one of Atlanta’s oldest historical landmarks, is slated for demolition sometime within six to 12 months, and the state agency handling its demolition is making no promises that the granite post will return to the position it’s held since 1850. According to a statement provided to the AJC...
The Zero Mile Post is one of Atlanta's oldest artifacts, marking the place where the city's first railroad ended. The city came into existence when that railroad -- the Western & Atlantic -- was surveyed and built. (Pete Corson / pcorson@ajc.com)
Tex McIver is on trial for the fatal shooting of his wife Diane in 2016, which he says was accidental. Although many of the basic facts about the case are not in dispute, the defendant’s intentions certainly are, and this makes witness testimony crucial in the prosecution’s efforts to paint Tex McIver as a cold-blooded killer...
Some of the witnesses who have taken the stand in the murder trial of Tex McIver.
This map gives the location, size and vital statistics for each of 100 accredited historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). See below for a searchable database of the schools, including data from 2005 and 2010. UPDATE: This page has been updated on Feb. 26, 2018 to remove Concordia College from our list of accredited schools....
If you’re listening to true-crime podcasts, you’re hearing a lot about Georgia. And with the debut of “Atlanta Monster,” now you’ll be hearing a lot about Atlanta in the late 1970s. That podcast, from Atlanta-based HowStuffWorks, is the most recent project from the producers of the wildly popular &ldquo...
The Atlanta Federal Penitentiary has had its share of famous inmates over the years, including several who have inspired characters in Hollywood crime films. Here are some of those inmates and the films that you might know them from, along with other famous prisoners of the facility. But first, some history: The penitentiary was first...
The Atlanta Federal Penitentiary has had its share of famous inmates over the years, including several who have inspired characters in Hollywood true-crime films. Here are some of those inmates and the films that you might know them from, along with other famous prisoners of the facility.
Atlanta has 18 sisters around the world. Here's how each partnership came about and some of the things the pairings have accomplished.
Atlanta: A tree blocks South Ponce de Leon Avenue near the bridge over Lullwater Creek in Druid Hills on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irma. The fallen tree narrowly missed blocking the entrance to Freedom Parkway Trail. (Pete Corson / pcorson@ajc.com)
Metro Atlanta and the rest of Georgia deal with the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irma’s effects one day after the storm passed through the state.
JEFFERSON DAVIS HIGHWAY MARKER (Agnes Scott College): You'll find this marker on the border of Agnes Scott College, on East College Avenue near the South McDonough Street intersection. In 1913, the United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived of naming a transcontinental series of highways after Confederate President Jefferson Davis. It would...
McNeel Marble Co. mass-produced Confederate monuments all across the southeast and beyond in the early 20th century. Here are a few things to know about the company and its product.
Meet Pacman, the Yellow Lab that has been helping take a big bite out of Clayton County’s drug problem.
Sandra Taylor enters a Fulton County Schools maintenance building and smiles. Then her eyes begin to fill with tears. She pauses inside a large room filled with stacks of lumber, machinery, dust. But Taylor sees something else: remnants of a cafeteria and a small stage, a gathering place in a school where she played flute, developed...
An engraving of the front of Bailey-Johnson School adorns the front of its 1965 commencement announcement. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)
Alumnus Charles Grogan holds the commencement announcement for the Bailey-Johnson School Class of 1965. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc.com)
Bailey-Johnson School alumni Charles Grogan (center) and Sandra Taylor talk with a Fulton County Schools maintenance engineer in the school's former auditorium and cafeteria. The former school building now serves as a maintenance facility for Fulton County Schools, with a carpentry shop in the former auditorium. (PETE CORSON / pcorson@ajc...
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