The memorial features a 55-foot steel wall with the names of the 30 victims in white with roses placed in front of them, mostly children, killed between 1979 and 1981 as well as a burning flame.

The Atlanta Child Murders Memorial features a 55-foot steel wall with the names of the 30 victims, mostly children and adolescents, killed between 1979 and 1981 as well as a burning flame.

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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and artist Gordon Huether joined families of the victims in the Atlanta Child Murders Tuesday morning to unveil a new memorial honoring the children’s lives.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday issued a disaster declaration for 18 Georgia counties after an unexpected March freeze decimated the state's peach crop.

Another U.S. Supreme Court decision makes it likely Georgia will have to redraw its Congressional map to avoid violating the U.S. Civil Rights Act.  

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