A week after a mass shooting in Atlanta's midtown, Georgia Democrats demanded Republican Governor Brian Kemp call a special legislative session to address gun violence.  The federal government is proposing new rules to limit climate pollution from power plants as Georgia's largest utility is beginning to phase out coal. And the home of the U.S. Army's Infantry School officially has a new name following a ceremony at what is now Fort Moore in West Georgia.

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A mass shooting in midtown Atlanta on Wednesday left one person dead and four others injured. The suspect was captured after nearly an eight-hour manhunt. Fulton District Attorney tells WABE she is closely watching the New York case against former President Donald Trump as she weighs a possible indictment for election meddling. And immigrant advocates are again calling for the federal government to shut down Stewart Detention Center in Southwest Georgia after another death at the facility. Plus, the family of Lashawn Thompson is asking the Fulton County Board of Commissioners for accountability. The 35-year-old man died last year, covered in bed bugs, in the psychiatric wing of the Fulton County Jail. 

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The first two medical cannabis stores in Georgia are now open in Macon and Marietta. Grady Health System opens two new clinics along I-20 to account for the closing of the Atlanta Medical Center. The developer for Atlanta's $90-million police and firefighter training center says a soft opening for the controversial project is now scheduled for the end of next year. 

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The family of a 35-year-old man who died at the Fulton County jail says his death highlights the need for the facility to be shut down and replaced. And immigrants in Georgia who face unsafe work conditions are now able to secure visa protections through a new federal rule. Plus, we look at a new rule proposed by the Biden Administration that would likely conflict with a Georgia High School Association policy on transgender student athletes.

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As the the media, politicians, protesters and others descended on New York for the plea of former President Donald Trump on the 34 counts he faces, we look at what could happen here if Fulton County's district attorney indicts him too. Plus, a diversion center in Atlanta is set to offer an alternative to jail. And we find out more about how parents and guardians from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, who have immigrated or were resettled in metro Atlanta, might be able to bring their children to Georgia with refugee status.

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We look at the last day of the legislative session when lawmakers did not bring scores of bills to a final floor vote. Plus, Georgia's Supreme Court hears oral arguments over the state's restrictive abortion law. And a WABE protagonist in a major series gets the city of Atlanta's highest honor.

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Lawmakers blocked transgender kids from receiving some gender-affirming care in Georgia. We hear from 15-year-old Adam, who was set to have top surgery. Some Dekalb County residents say the blighted areas are out of control and are calling on officials to clean it up. Plus, environmental groups say they plan to sue the federal government over a big, wrinkly reptile that lives in south Georgia. 

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Thursday marked two years since eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, were killed in Fulton and Cherokee Counties. One man is serving life in prison for the Cherokee murders and awaits a death penalty trial for the killings in Fulton. We hear remembrances of the victims and calls for action to protect the AAPI community from future attacks.

Plus, former Clayton County Sheriff Victor is sent to prison, Grady opens a new unit in-part to deal with the closing of AMC and Atlanta's Morris Brown is on the comeback trail.

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Georgia officials are charging more people with domestic terrorism after a demonstration at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center in South Dekalb County turns violent. It's a relatively new charge for such actions. And in a Northeast Georgia hospital, medical experts are trying a new way to treat those battling addiction in what could be the future of such treatment.

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Two controversial bills are not advancing for now at the state Capitol: a push to separate the neighborhood of Buckhead from Atlanta and a bill banning schools from talking sexuality or gender. Plus, we look at why Georgia Power is set to raise rates again. And an effort to expand and protect Atlanta's urban forest.

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