Josh Smith added 20 points, nine rebounds, seven assists and four steals, while Joe Johnson contributed … 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Hawks, who had a three-game winning streak broken. Hawks’ Horford scores career-high 31 Hawks’ Horford …

All-Star Al Horford tallied 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Hawks … Hours after trading center Marcus Camby to Portland, the Clips fell to the Blazers last night when Martell Webster made a career-high seven three- pointers on his way to tying a …

Braves general manager Frank Wren says Jurrjens reported early to the team’s spring training facility in Kissimmee, Fla. Wren says the scan is precautionary and Jurrjens could return to Florida after the exam “if everything is OK.” Jurrjens went 14-10 in 2009, throwing a career-high 215 innings and

The Gwinnett Braves will play in the coolest stadium in the minors — “Coolray Field.” Coolray Heating and Cooling Inc. said Wednesday it has a 16-year agreement with the Atlanta Braves to hold the naming rights to the Gwinnett Braves’ stadium …

Atlanta’s Citizen Review Board found that Officer Brandy Dolson had falsely arrested Minnie Carey, then 61, after she questioned why he had told her to move along on a sidewalk.

A McEachern High School football standout was killed early Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide at his family’s Powder Springs home.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Burger King employee in north Florida has been arrested and charged after two sandwiches he made were found to have hydrocodone pills in them.

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (February 18, 2010) The Connecticut Sun will open the 2010 season by hosting the Atlanta Dream in the first of three preseason games on May 4th at 11 a.m. Connecticut will also take on the Polish National Team in Mohegan Sun Arena …

TAMPA — This is a new, more frugal Yankees team, one that kept their payroll to only $200 million, that declined to keep Johnny Damon and that spent more than $400 million less this year than last on new free agents. He has good reason to be. This …

… satisfying Olympics ever: The 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, a festival of tastelessness that had all the atmosphere of spring break; and the 1980 Winter Games, which made “organized by Lake Placid” a gag line among international sports officials …

Testimony began in the first day of the trial of Devonni Benton, 21, who police say killed 19-year-old Jasmine Lynn by firing a pistol at least six times into a crowd outside a Clark Atlanta University dorm in the early morning hours of Sept. 3. “

ATLANTA — A Spelman College student who was killed by a stray bullet as she walked with friends on a neighboring college campus was trying to break up the fight that led to her death, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Testimony began in the first day of …

NBC ratings have been strong. But aside from that, it’s been one problem after another for a games governed not so much by the Olympic creed as by Murphy’s Law. Shades of Atlanta. The canceled tickets at Cypress Mountain — 28,000 in all — mean …

An Emory University Hospital spokesman said Sunday that the Rev. Lowery was released Saturday night. The 88-year-old Lowery was admitted to the hospital two weeks earlier with a blood clot in his lung. He stood with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr …

The man accused of stabbing and killing his wife in a Suwanee parking lot Sunday had been arrested just two weeks before for allegedly choking the woman, police said.