The four rail lines that make up the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) meet at Five Points Station. The station, which was opened in 1979 and later added North-South lines in 1981, is located in the middle of downtown and serves as a transportation hub for the metro area’s five million residents. Ascending from the below-ground platforms, the plaza opens onto Alabama Street SW and Marietta Street NW. From Five Points you can get just about anywhere in Atlanta.

It's that time again: voting in round one of America's Ugliest Accent Tournament is about to begin. We can now give you the results of our prior days' matchups, which may serve to inform where your loyalties lie in today's rounds of voting. Nevertheless, please remember that city pride is important when it comes to nominating the ugliest garbage-sounding mealymouth in America. Stay true to your school.

Atlanta Public Schools fired a sixth grade teacher this week for playing her class Beyoncé and Jay Z's eternal classic, "Drunk in Love." According to the administrators' complaint against Ms. Nikki Turner, "This song contained profanity, vulgarity, and sexually explicit lyrics. This song is not [in] alignment with Teacher Keys Standard 9, Professionalism." Blah blah blah, surf-boring, this is bullshit.

Cynthia Burch, a former water inspector for the city of Atlanta, would make sure your establishment gets a passing score—if you paid her in food. Well, Burch would never actually exactly "offer" this arrangement. Until she was fired, Burch used to promise restaurants that she would cause problems for them if they didn't give her free food.

Justin Ross Harris, 33, of Marietta, Ga., was supposed to drive his 22-month-old son to the on-site daycare facility at the Home Depot Headquarters in Atlanta where he works. It wasn't until his drive home seven hours later that he looked back and realized that he had forgotten his son, who was still strapped to his car seat and had been for the duration of the hot day. By then, his son had died. Police have charged Harris with murder.

A 19-month-old boy was critically injured by a grenade in a police raid of a suspected drug dealer's home near Atlanta. According to the child's parents, he is in a medically-induced coma and has a 50 percent chance of surviving.

The Atlanta Falcons' plan for a new stadium calls for $200 million in public money, and "for demolishing the city's first black Baptist church, and turning the street named after [Martin Luther] King into a dead-end for stadium VIP parking."

According to TMZ, Justin Bieber is looking to buy a massive mansion in Atlanta's tony Buckhead neighborhood because he wants to be close to the city's rap scene lick stripper nipples. The rich people of Buckhead are less than enthused about his move.

[In this photo taken with a fisheye lens over the perimeter highway known as "Spaghetti Junction" in Atlanta on Wednesday, the ice-covered system shows the remnants of a winter storm that slammed the city with over 2 inches of snow, turning highways into parking lots when motorists abandoned their vehicles. Image via David Tulis/AP.]

Yesterday afternoon, a relatively mild snow storm hit an unprepared Atlanta. UPDATE: This is a video is from a crash last year. Original post below:

"Nostalgia's a fad," Stan Kasten, then president of the Atlanta Braves, said in 1996. "This is classic." He was talking about the brand-new Centennial Olympic Stadium, which was designed to be converted after the Atlanta Olympics into a state-of-the-art baseball stadium for the Braves, at a total construction cost of $209 million.

A mundane local news story turned potentially lethal after the reporter phoned the police to report a driver slumped over in his seat in the middle of a highway.

Congrats to Atlanta for winning this year's "most guns found at the airport" title. We know you'll do great next year, Dallas!

When Joel Woloshuk bought a focaccia sandwich last Wednesday at a restaurant in Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, he noticed something moving on the bread. "I'm looking at what I thought was parmesan, right? Then the parmesan started to move," Woloshuk said.

The mass adoption of gasoline-powered cars over the last century or so probably represents the single greatest threat to public health in the long term (and a fairly large threat to public health in the short term, too), but that's not the only reason that we should stop driving.

Former Atlanta schools chief, Beverly L. Hall, was indicted yesterday on charges of cheating to make under-performing schools look better on state testing, allowing herself and other school administrators to profit. Hall and 34 others were indicted by a Georgia grand jury that found rampant cheating between 2005 and 2010. Hall was a celebrated school superintendent, who had been praised by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and even invited to the White House.

A student was shot in the back of the neck, apparently by a fellow student, at the at Price Middle School in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, and a teacher sustained "minor scrapes and bruises" after being trampled during the aftermath. The underage victim was admitted to Grady Memorial Hospital, and is "awake and breathing," according to Atlanta Public Schools; the teacher was treated on-scene.

In case you needed another reason not to shoot a police officer, the photo to the right should do it. That's a picture of 20-year-old Frank Emmitt Nance, or what's left of him, after he was arrested for allegedly shooting Officer Reggie Robinson, an Atlanta police recruit, during a drug investigation gone wrong.

It's almost never a good thing for a stripper to make the news. The last 24 hours — which has seen strippers hospitalized, arrested and fired — has proven at least that much.

The "Bloody Best" Bloody Mary at the Atlanta-based eatery The Nook is not kidding around.