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A complete power outage at the nation’s busiest airport, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, grounded flights Sunday afternoon, threatening to cause a holiday travel nightmare for fliers across the country just over a week before Christmas. Airport officials said in a news release the power outage has forced the Federal Aviation Administration to suspend outgoing flights and implement a "ground stop" for incoming flights, which "means that flights headed to Atlanta are held on the ground at their departure airport." International flights will be diverted to land at other airports, U.S. Customs and Border Protection tweeted. Atlanta Airport tweeted that...

Several tornadoes have passed through the Atlanta region under the tropical storm's broader wave of wind and rain as the (former) hurricane/tropical storm passes inland. Damage reported in NW Cobb county and Cherokee county to the NW of Atlanta proper: The weather service center itself in Peachtree City (SW of Atlanta) was evacuated for a short time itself as another tornado passed overhead. That Peachtree City tornado is on track towards the Atlanta airport: which could bring hundreds of millions in aircraft damage if it hits the airport itself.

ATLANTA - At the world's busiest airport, plainclothes officers patrolling public restrooms in search of luggage thieves have instead uncovered a rash of other, more sordid crimes. The new restroom dragnet has led to the arrests of more than 30 people in three months for indecent exposure and public sex acts at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Airport restrooms apparently have become such popular meeting places for men looking for sexual trysts with other men that they have been suggested several times as meeting places in personal ads on the Web site Craigslist. "Hey ... I'm stuck at the airport from...