Atlanta, GA
Atlanta City Council considering committee as response to deadly 404 Day shooting
The Atlanta City Council is working to form a 404 Day Advisory Committee following the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl at this year’s celebration.
The committee would be made up of city council members, community leaders, business owners, and various city department employees.
“We want folks to enjoy our parks. We want all folks to be safe in the city of Atlanta,” said City Council Member Andrea Boone.
The committee is asking for public feedback to evaluate what went wrong on 404 Day and to determine what needs to change.
“We want to hear from you. We want to know what are your concerns, what are the planning concerns, what do the business think? How should we exit and entrance the events,” said Boone.
Sixteen-year-old Tianah Robinson was shot and killed at Piedmont Park during this year’s celebration. She was an innocent bystander, according to police.
A month after her killing, authorities have not named a suspect in the case, despite requests from the public for help with the investigation.
“I remember her just being one of the most innocent persons in the world. Just pure kid,” said Martell Ellis, Robinson’s cousin.
Robinson’s family has been outspoken in calling for improvements in safety at city events like 404 Day.
“I want everybody to remember this is one of Atlanta’s best little people. We lost Atlanta’s best, a nd she had such a promising future, so we have to make sure this doesn’t happen again, we gotta make sure this was not in vain,” said Ellis.
The 404 Day Advisory Committee will meet for 180 days before presenting its findings and proposals.
Best place to live in Georgia
Georgia’s top spot on a recent Niche report list also holds the national crown: Atlantic Station in Atlanta is No. 1 on the list. Niche gave them an A+ in nightlife, health and fitness, commute, and “good for families.”
It’s based on 15 key metrics with the highest weight given to cost of living, percentage of residents with higher education, housing, and the public school quality.
One figure Niche didn’t rank was the crime, but there have been some noteworthy events in the last few months including 1 killed and 2 injured in a shooting a couple weeks ago and a chaotic incident with about 400 juveniles in December.
Cost of living in Atlantic Station
Despite its high mark on the list, Atlantic Station has real room to grow in cost of living, ranking B- by Niche. The median home value is reportedly just over $418,000 while the median rent is $2,145.
Patrons walk by the stores of Atlantic Station in Atlanta.
Atlantic Station is in Fulton County. According to the MIT Living Wage Calculator, single adults without children need to make $26.73 an hour. Two adults living together without children need to make $34.55 per hour if one is working, $17.28 if both are working. These figures obviously increase for families with children depending on how many they have.
Things to do in Atlantic Station
Here are some of the entertainment options available at Atlantic Station:
Best restaurants in Atlantic Station
These are some of Atlantic Station’s best restaurants according to lists from TripAdvisor and OpenTable:
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Toscano Ristorante Italiano at Atlantic Station
Top 5 places to live in Georgia
The top five Georgia spots on Niche’s list were all Atlanta neighborhoods. Here they are along with their national rankings:
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Atlantic Station at No. 1
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Buckhead Forest at No. 33
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Buckhead Village at No. 34
Miguel Legoas is a Deep South Connect Team Reporter for USA Today. Find him on Instagram @miguelegoas and email at mlegoas@gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on Savannah Morning News: Niche gives Atlantic Station an A+ in nightlife, commute, health, more
The Mariners, suddenly drawing from their depth a month into the season, made a waiver claim today, picking up lefty José Suarez from Atlanta.
Mariners fans likely remember Suarez from his lengthy Angels tenure, from the time he signed with the Angels as a free agent out of Venezuela to 2024. Prior to the 2025 season, the Angels traded him to Atlanta in exchange for injury-prone pitcher Ian Anderson (later DFA’d by the Angels and re-claimed by Atlanta). Atlanta transitioned the short king (listed 5’10”) to the bullpen and edited his pitch mix, dropping his sweeper and tweaking his slider to be shorter and more of a traditional gyro slider, resulting in more whiffs on the pitch.
Command remains an issue for Suarez, something that’s persisted since his days as an Angel. As a top-100 prospect almost a decade ago, Suarez seemed slated to anchor the heart of Anaheim’s rotation. Instead, the classic control artist trap befell him. Lacking the velo (low-90s heat) or fastball traits to miss bats easily, and having more middling results on his changeup and breaking ball which can cut through Triple-A hitters, Suarez has had to nibble the edges and has seen his walk rate swell as a big leaguer in efforts to avoid barrels. Those issues, along with health troubles, saw him faded from the Angels’ plans.
Although he had a solid first season as a Brave, this year has been a struggle, leading to much sturm und drang amongst the Braves fanbase, who are all too happy to see Suarez go. As for how he fits in the Mariners bullpen, that’s a bit of a puzzle; the Mariners have a third lefty (with his own command issues, even) in Josh Simpson, although Simpson has options, where Suarez does not.
However, the Mariners are well-familiar with Suarez, having seen him for so many years in the AL West, so there must be something there the pitching brain trust hopes to unlock. The other bonus Suarez brings is length; as a former starter, he can cover multiple innings if necessary, which it’s been more often than not lately as three-fifths of the Mariners rotation continue to turn in shorter outings. By his dint of a changeup-first offspeed repertoire, Suarez is somewhat more evenly split in his performance against hitters by handedness, instead of a traditional lefty specialist.
In a corresponding move, OF Rhylan Thomas was designated for assignment.
A year later, police say training center has led to better recruitment and training; opponents say their concerns were ignored.
An aerial photo shows the controversial Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, located on the east side of downtown on Thursday, April 30, 2026. A year after the facility officially opened, some local residents who opposed it remain angry about how city officials handled their concerns. (Miguel Martinez/AJC)
In the year since its opening, Atlanta’s public safety training center has moved beyond the protest and division that marked its origins to become what police describe as an indispensable tool to rebuild its ranks and better train Atlanta officers, firefighters and 911 operators.
Today, the center is a campus that includes classrooms, horse stables, a burn tower for firefighters, small buildings for police to train in active shooter situations, and a large paved area for practice in maneuvering fire and police vehicles.
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The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center includes classrooms, horse stables (shown here), a burn tower for firefighters and small buildings for police to train in active shooter situations. (Miguel Martinez/AJC)
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Law enforcement officers work to clear the woods at the site of Atlanta’s public safety training center on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in anticipation of construction of the controversial facility. (John Spink/AJC)
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Opponents of Atlanta’s public safety training center disrupt the City Council meeting at City Hall on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. Leaders forged ahead with the project, arguing it would transform the way Atlanta’s first responders and emergency personnel are trained. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)
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Atlanta police and fire recruits stand in front of the leadership building at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Since its opening, Atlanta police have held nine graduation ceremonies there, and the fire department has held three. (Natrice Miller/AJC)
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Protesters head through a neighborhood toward the site of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center ahead of a showdown with police on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. (John Spink/AJC)
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Volkan Topalli, a professor at Georgia State University, says the Atlanta Police Foundation, which advocated and fundraised for the training center, “wanted to do things on their own terms.” (Branden Camp for the AJC 2021)
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Atlanta City Council member Kelsea Bond says the city’s handling of the training center is one of the reasons they felt compelled to run for office in the first place. (Courtesy of Kelsea Bond)
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