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Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Ticket lottery now open for 2026 Masters Tournament, Women's Amateur
This week is your first chance to apply for a coveted patron spot at Augusta National for the 2026 Masters Tournament and Women's Amateur. The lottery process for each tournament officially opened on Sunday. You have until June 20 to apply. Advertisement Here's what to know about applying for tickets. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] When is the Masters? When is the Augusta National Women's Amateur? The 2026 Masters tournament is scheduled for April 9-12 with the practice rounds scheduled for April 6-8. The 2026 Augusta National Women's Amateur will take place the weekend before the Masters from April 1-4. How does the lottery work? The application is online only and you must have an account registered at or Each lottery is its own application. Once you sign-in, you can apply for up to four passes to any or all of the Masters practice rounds Monday through Wednesday and daily tournament rounds Thursday through Sunday. Advertisement You can also apply for four tickets to the Women's Amateur for the daily rounds. How much will the tickets cost? If you win, the practice rounds cost $125 a ticket for Monday and Tuesday and $150 for Wednesday's practice round and the Par 3 contest. The main rounds Thursday through Sunday will cost $160 a ticket. For the Augusta National Women's Amateur, the first two rounds are free and the final round costs $150 a ticket. What are the lottery rules? You can only apply once from your permanent address. You cannot apply from a second home, business or temporary address. More than one person from the same household cannot apply either. Advertisement There is also a requirement for applicants to be at least 21 years old. Winners will be notified in July before the payment portal opens July 20. They will have an August deadline to pay for the tickets, which will be mailed out in March. Augusta National does not allow resale of any tickets. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Metro Atlanta 4-year-old finishes cancer battle that took more than half his life
After spending more than half of his life battling cancer, a 4-year-old metro Atlanta boy has finished his treatment. Austin Herre rang the bell at Children's Arthur M. Blank Hospital this week after 854 days of treatment. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] His mother said he was diagnosed with Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) at just six months old more than two years ago. ALD is a rare disease that affects 1 in 17,000 people. It's a neurological disorder that affects the adrenal glands and brain and causes long-chain fatty acids in the brain, which destroy the protective myelin sheath around nerve cells responsible for brain function. In January 2023, he was also diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. TRENDING STORIES: This metro Atlanta city is ranked No. 1 on new 'Best Places to Live in the U.S.' list Keisha Lance Bottoms makes it official, announces run for Georgia governor Parents sue after they say 6-year-old daughter was racially attacked at school: 'It's disturbing' That same year, he was able to visit a Cherokee County fire station to see some fire trucks and was named an honorary firefighter. Members of the Cherokee County Fire Department reunited with him to be at the ceremony marking the end of his treatment. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Airbnb rolls out anti-party features ahead of Memorial Day weekend
Memorial Day Weekend is just days away and Airbnb is implementing its yearly effort to curb disruptive partying at their host properties. That means that all across the United States and Puerto Rico, and yes even Atlanta, 'anti-party defenses' will be active. Airbnb said they're using machine learning to help prevent higher-risk bookings of entire home listings from being made as part of their work to ban parties at Airbnbs, globally. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Last year, Airbnb said they helped deter about 51,000 people from booking properties in the U.S., reducing the number of parties during summer holidays like Memorial Day and July 4. In Atlanta, Airbnb said they stopped 900 bookings for whole home listings last year between the two holiday weekends. The company said they also deterred about 2,400 bookings across Georgia for the two holiday weekends. TRENDING STORIES: 4-year-old killed in Forsyth County ATV crash Body recovered at Lake Lanier confirmed as missing kayaker Dustin Valencia 4 identified in apparent murder-suicide in southeast GA "It's important to note that parties remain extremely rare on Airbnb. In 2024, just 0.15%% of reservations in Atlanta resulted in an allegation of a party,' the company said. 'What's more, thanks in part to proactive measures like our anti-party technology, we've seen a 57% decrease in the rate of party reports to us in Atlanta since introducing our global party ban policy in 2020." As for how the company detects potential parties that go against their platform's rules, they use machine learning, or AI, to check several different factors of bookings. Those include 'the type of listing being booked, the duration of the stay, the distance to the listing from the guest's primary location and whether the booking is last minute – to determine whether a booking should be blocked. Guests who are prevented from booking an entire home will instead have the option to book alternative accommodations on Airbnb." The company also provides noise sensors for hosts, that they say can help get ahead of issues before they become a problem, while also respecting guest privacy. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
Parent who lost 2 sons to fentanyl applauds tougher Georgia law
A preliminary report found nationwide drug overdose deaths fell from 110,000 in 2023 to 80,000 in 2024 - a decline of nearly 27 percent and the lowest number of overdose deaths since 2019. Channel 2's Tom Regan reported a new law in Georgia could mean even fewer deaths in the future. That law, just signed by Gov. Brian Kemp, will sharply increase prison time and fines for people dealing fentanyl. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] 'It's the dealers' turn. They know they are selling poison,' said parent Carolyn McDermott. McDermott is praising tougher punishments for fentanyl dealers. In the course of just a few months, her two sons, 22-year old Gannon and 19-year-old Max, died after overdosing on it. She says Gannon, an apprentice plumber, first got hooked on pain meds provided by a girlfriend. He then turned to buying street drugs. 'Gannon passed on Nov. 10, 2023, of a fentanyl overdose. He battled it for a little over a year. He actually died in a sober living house,' she said. His adopted younger brother, also addicted to fentanyl, died just six months later. 'They played sports. We went to teacher-parent conferences. My husband is a high school teacher. I'm a high school counselor. We talked ad nauseum about drugs. No means no,' she said. Following the deaths of their sons, the parents began lobbying for tougher laws. The legislation just signed by the governor mandates a maximum 10-year prison sentence for those convicted of trafficking between 4 to 8 grams of fentanyl and 35 years for a dealer caught with at least 28 grams. 'I don't feel sorry for a fentanyl dealer getting 20 years, 30 years, because at least you're here,' McDermott said. 'My sons are in two urns. They did something they shouldn't have done. I don't defend what they did, but they paid for it with their lives. And we are paying for it the rest of our lives.' She says the dealer who sold the fentanyl that killed her older son got 40 years in prison. She hopes the new law will deter people from selling the drug. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
Man stroked her hair, got in fight with fiancé then hit him with car, woman says
A woman said her fiancé is in bad shape at Grady Hospital after he was intentionally hit with a car outside a restaurant following a fight inside. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Taj Jones said she and her husband-to-be, Terry Crosby, had just arrived in Atlanta from Detroit to celebrate a birthday, when they decided to go with others to the Dunwoody bar and restaurant The Bird on April 25. 'I was facing my fiancé, and the guy was behind me stroking my hair like this with his hand,' she said. That resulted in a fight inside the bar around 2 a.m. Sgt. Michael Cheek with Dunwoody police said management threw out everyone who was involved. Jones said they were walking in the parking lot when she heard the revving of a car engine. She moved out of the way as it sped toward them, but Crosby was hit and knocked into the building. The driver drove away, and Crosby was rushed to the hospital. Jones said he had a blood clot in his head, a fractured shoulder and broken ribs among his injuries. Crosby remains in the care of doctors at Grady with a long road ahead. 'We know he will come out of this on top, with all of his memory and nothing will be wrong,' Jones said. The man accused of hitting him turned himself in at the DeKalb County Jail, Dunwoody police said Monday. Sheldon Mayers faces three felony charges of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and hit and run resulting in serious injury or death. Jail records show Mayers has been released on bond from the DeKalb County Jail. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
