The Brief from WABE

It's been a violent few weeks on MARTA. The feds are investigating, and now state leaders have their focus on Atlanta's transit system; A massive data center that already got the green light has Marietta residents planning to crash this week's city council meeting; and America at 250: how the Jim Henson puppet Miss Piggy helps tell the nation's story through an Atlanta lens.

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It's rare indeed, when Atlanta's weekend traffic isn't awful, but it's awfully rare it's as bad as this weekend's is shaping up to be. 

Want a lucrative state contract? Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has some lakefront property he'd like to show you. 

And it's not along the Beltline's Eastside Trail... and it's not a rail line... But two decades in and the Beltline technically has transit.

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The federal government launches an inquiry into MARTA's spending on safety; County elections officials could get different (and conflicting) state guidance on how to count ballots; and we head to the Atlanta History Center in search of what documents from Spelman College's earliest years tell us about the country's earliest days.   

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Gov. Kemp adds property tax to special session agenda; Atlanta area DAs call BS on state efforts to erase partisan elections only in the metro; and legendary singer Peabo Bryson dies at age 75. 

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The Georgia Supreme Court makes way for lethal injection executions to move forward again; Recently deepened and widened Port of Savannah could be deeper and wider; and about those fancy new MARTA train cars set to debut for the FIFA World Cup. Um. Well. So. 

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Georgia's gas tax repreive is about to end; Sen. Jon Ossoff and Democratic gubenatorial nominee Keisha Lance-Bottoms team up for election campaigning; and go inside a Ga State Univ lab where researchers hope to find life in a far away land.  

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Pilot program using drones to respond to mass school shooting event set to debut at five Georgia schools; Why the FBI isn't laughing about threats related to the FIFA World Cup; and the effects of military sexual trauma in WABE's series, "Invisible Scars."

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Shoplifting suspect, said to be running away from police, shot dead; Georgia Power bills should be a little cheaper starting next month; and Emory University names its 22nd President. 

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Thursday morning in courtrooms almost 50 miles apart, a teen and a man accused of carrying out separate mass shootings in Georgia will have status hearings as neither has a trial date set for their high-profile murder cases; Rodney Taylor, the Lawrenceville man who rose to national attention when members of Congress flagged how the double amputee was crawling across filthy bathroom floors to shower, is out of immigration detention; Libertarian candidate for Governor Chase Oliver has suspended his campaign.

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An urgent plea from Atlanta's animal shelters; MARTA's PD continues to grow; and two middle schoolers from metro Atlanta navigate the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

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