Cash flows into Atlanta on Labor Day weekend and other top stories.

• Cash flows into Atlanta on Labor Day weekend

  

  Labor Day weekend has become Thanksgiving in September for some metro Atlanta businesses.Thousands are expected to descend on the metro area for a diverse collection of annual events that have one thing in common: filling hotel rooms and restaurant tables.Gay Black Pride, Dragon Con, the AJC Decatur Book Festival and the Chick-fil-A Kickoff football game, which this year pits the Georgia Bulldogs against the North Carolina Tarheels, are slated to entertain big crowds and keep cash registers humm..

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• Atlanta rapper Young Dro arrested before concert at Georgia Southern

  

  Rapper Young Dro and members of his entourage were arrested just before he was set to perform at a concert on Georgia Southern University’s campus, The Statesboro Herald reported.Young Dro, whose real name is D’Juan Hart, was arrested and charged with marijuana possession, possession of a controlled substance, possession of a weapon in a school safety zone and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, the newspaper reported. Three people from his entourage faced similar charges.Hart was sched..

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• 'Good Day Atlanta' host Karen Graham leaving Fox 5 after 16 years

  

  Karen Graham, who has been a morning host for Fox 5’s “Good Day Atlanta” since 2009 and a broadcaster at the station since 2000, is leaving September 7. She broke the news this morning on her public Fox 5 Facebook page. Graham said “Fox 5 did not force me out. In fact, my bosses tried everything to convince me to stay. And I mean everything.” She said her departure was her choice and she has an unspecified new “game changer” of a job forthcoming. It’s likely related to the deaf community...

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• Atlanta planning ahead for mixed-blessing of booming growth

  

  Atlanta planning ahead for mixed-blessing of booming growth Atlanta braces for massive population growth Matthew Pearl, WXIA 6:34 PM. EDT August 31, 2016 Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images ATLANTA -- Driving through Atlanta surrounded by cranes, it's not hard to notice that Atlanta is in the middle of the latest construction boom to hit the city. Growth is usually a good thing, but it comes with questions about how it will affect an already infamously c..

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• Celebrate beautiful Atlanta historical architecture with this Instagram ...

  

  Atlanta isn’t exactly known as a place that preserves its history. Our city has raised and knocked over countless buildings in its decades-long cycle of reinvention.  However, not everyone is on board with this plan. According to Cristina Moscoso, a consultant and photographer; Daniel Tana, program manager of the American Architectural Foundation; and Derek Anderson, an architectural historian married to Moscoso, people like historical homes and architecture.“Atlanta is a really good place for p..

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• Meal delivery group to open major center in metro Atlanta, 1200 jobs

  

  A home meal delivery company plans to open a distribution and packaging center in DeKalb County in a move that will bring more than 1,200 jobs to the metro area by 2020, according to a state news release.Home Chef, among a burgeoning market of meal and grocery delivery services, will open a 140,000-square-foot operations center along Lithonia Industrial Boulevard, the news release said. The center will package and deliver home meal kits with fresh ingredients.The subscription service, which alre..

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