Braves manager Brian Snitker announced the team had four players test positive for COVID-19: first baseman Freddie Freeman, left-hander Will Smith, right-hander Touki Toussaint and utilityman Pete Kozma.

They are still, thanks to an Athens-Clarke County Commission edict in late 2018, largely banned from the streets of Athens, but electronic scooters are spotted again in Atlanta. Athens-Clarke County Commissioners ordered a twelve-month moratorium, since extended, on scooters and set about working on an ordinance that would regulate the popular personal transportation devices.

A Gainesville man bit off the end of a police officer's nose during an arrest this week, seriously disfiguring him.