Perseverance by the Shell-Pennzoil Team Nets a Ninth-Place Finish in Atlanta HAMPTON, Ga. — Kevin Harvick and Richard Childress Racing’s No. 29 team persevered and made the most of an ill-handling chassis to score a ninth-place finish in the Kobalt …

David Ross drove in four runs and prospect Jason Heyward added a two-run homer, as the Atlanta Braves defeated the Detroit Tigers, 12-4, in Grapefruit League action. Eric Hinske went 3-for-4 and scored two runs for Atlanta, while Brooks Conrad had …

DOWN ON EDGEWOOD: Harlem Bar is among the diverse mix of nightlife outposts in a once-forgotten historic pocket. Fifteen years ago, fresh out of New York film school and in search of a place to live in Atlanta, Karl Injex moved with his girlfriend …

Nearly 500 Fulton County teachers could lose their jobs as part of a budget tightening plan to shave nearly $140 million from the districts’ 2011 budget.

A U.S. Forest Service law enforcement officer was shot and killed in middle Georgia by a hunter who apparently mistook the ranger for a coyote.

Q: Recent articles in the AJC state that our Georgia World Congress Center is the fourth largest in the nation.

Health care advocates on Monday urged Georgia lawmakers to pass a dollar-a-pack cigarette tax to partially close an estimated $1 billion hole in the state budget.