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Severe Weather Team 2 meteorologist Brad Nitz expects off-and-on showers and storms in metro Atlanta this weekend.

A fight between parents at a youth baseball game landed the team’s head coach and a mom in jail.

Police say thieves pepper-sprayed a disabled man while he was walking his dog.Benjamin Hafer told Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri he was walking his dog near Little 5 Points in Atlanta a few weeks ago in the middle of the afternoon when two men approached him and pepper-sprayed him in the eye.

Veterinarians are warning about the possibility of copperhead snake bites after several people’s dogs have been bitten.

DeKalb County leaders promised last year to clean up the county’s police department after a series of officer arrests, but the pattern of problems has persisted.

Two commuter trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in a crash that sent about 70 people to the hospital, severely damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the congested Northeast Corridor.

With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.

$600M Powerball jackpot has players feeling lucky

Police: Disabled man pepper-sprayed, robbed while walking dog

Powerball is a game of numbers, and lottery officials say the majority of possible combinations have already been purchased ahead of Saturday night's near-historic $600 million drawing.

There are only two outcomes when it comes to Saturday's Preakness Stakes — either the Kentucky Derby winner Orb wins the race to set up a Triple Crown try in the Belmont Stakes in three weeks, or another horse pulls an upset and prevents a shot at history.

Los Angeles manager Don Mattingly said too many walks and too many errors gave the Atlanta Braves far too much help.

Justin Upton was still the main man for Atlanta, even when the Braves finally had all their sluggers together.