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🔴GRIDLOCK ALERT Gwinnett Co: Overturned truck crash still blocking all but the HOT lane on I-85/sb before the I-985 merge. Take Satellite Blvd, Hwy 124 or I-985. #ATLtraffic pic.twitter.com/UB8ful38Eh

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That nasty wreck is completely on right shoulder I-85/sb s of Hwy. 20 (Exit 115), but delays from Gravel Springs (Exit 118) and I-985/sb has waves of delays from Flowery Branch. #ATLtraffic @wsbradio @WSBTraffic pic.twitter.com/oN55jecHhw

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Update on 1959 Metropolitan Parkway Homicide

Atlanta Police Homicide Investigators have made an arrest in the March 17, 2022 murder of Lakevia Jackson. https://t.co/JNHl4EP58m pic.twitter.com/pr5mgMaqPa

— Atlanta Police Department (@Atlanta_Police) April 1, 2022

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