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I recently visited Canoe for Brunch. I went with a lively bunch of ladies, and we had a nice time.

An Atlanta mother was arrested Saturday after allegedly abandoning her 3-year-old girl at a bus stop and then running from the police.

Rick Anderson was a quiet, unassuming civil servant with no accounting background, but when he ventured opinions about municipal revenues and spending, people in government and business listened attentively.

Authorities say they have found the body of a Georgia woman missing for two days near a highway where her car veered down an embankment and crashed.

First reported by the AJC, MF Buckhead closed last night after dinner service. A few weeks back, they fought rumors of closing , saying that they were just renegotiating their lease.

It's time now to Get Up and Go! If you love dogs, all sizes, shapes, and breeds of dogs, then I have an event for you this weekend!A We're headed to just outside the perimeter to the Atlanta Exhibition Center South for the Cherokee Rose Cluster Dog Show.

Bobby Cox is returning to the dugout -- but only for one exhibition. The former Braves manager will be back in uniform to manage the organization's top prospects against the current major leaguers on April 3. The game will be played at the home of the Braves' Triple-A Gwinnett team near Atlanta.

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga -- He's been called "The Laptop Burglar" or "Office Creeper". He has been wanted by four different law enforcement agencies in the Atlanta area since 2009.

Despite the hustle and bustle of city life in Atlanta, there are some great undiscovered gems in this town.

Bishop Eddie Long has been called anointed, but he was recently awarded another title, as shown in a video that's gone viral.

They would be welcomed, the Proclamation declared, "into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service." As President Lincoln himself said, "The colored population is the great available and yet unavailed-of force for restoring the Union." What ... (more)

Dear Cascade Patch: Members of the community are pulling together to save our landmark community schools and we need your help.

A little more than a year ago, longtime business journalist Maria Saporta took her former employer to task in a blog post titled, "Gift of building does not absolve the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's downtown departure." Saporta zeroed in on the paper's treatment of the news that Atlanta had won a federal grant to help build a proposed downtown ... (more)

Frans de Waal, a primate researcher, speaks during the convocation Thursday at Lawrence University's Memorial Chapel in Appleton.

A Bornean orangutan at Atlanta's zoo has become the first member of his species to participate in an awake cardiac ultrasound.