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NEW YORK — Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme. /

The Atlanta City Council is scheduled Monday to make what some members say will be its most important decision in several years voting whether to raise property taxes on city homeowners. Mayor Shirley Franklin and her staff say a property tax incr /

The Georgia Theatre in Athens is on fire, police confirmed. A spokesman for the Athens Clarke-County could not say how serious or extensive the fire is. The Georgia Theatre, a converted cinema, is a downtown Athens landmark and famous music venue. More de /

Nearly half a million 2009 Georgia income tax returns have yet to be processed by the state Department of Revenue as the agency struggles with budget cuts that have decimated its processing division. It could be five months before all 2009 returns are fin /

The mercury could be flirting with the century mark later this week as the hottest weather in nearly two years is forecast for metro Atlanta. If the National Weather Service's predicted high for Friday of 99 degrees is reached, that would be the highest t /