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Grace is an evening anchor and reporter for WUFT's "First at Five" newscast that airs on PBS in North Central Florida. Additionally, she anchors and produces local content for NPR's Morning Edition.

Over the past few years, she's served as the chairwoman of the Florida Scholastic Press Association, represented the state of Florida at the Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism conference, received the Dow Jones Media Maven Award in Photography, won eighteen national journalism awards, spoken at …

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Facial recognition technology helped police nab MARTA stabbing suspect Original

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By Grace King Verified
| WXIA-TV (Atlanta, GA) Verified
ATLANTA — MARTA police arrested a 36-year-old man Monday in connection with a stabbing at the Georgia State MARTA station, ending a weeks-long search as the agency ramped up security for large World Cup crowds. Quinton Sharp was taken into custody by MARTA's criminal apprehension team at the Vine City station just minutes before a match between Spain and Cabo Verde at Mercedes-Benz Stadium ended, authorities said.
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Safety and security under scrutiny at MARTA: How does agency compare to others?

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By Grace King Verified
| WXIA-TV (Atlanta, GA) Verified
ATLANTA — The safety and security of MARTA are under the federal microscope, following the announcement of an investigation Thursday that followed on the heels of two high-profile stabbing incidents. U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on X he wants "ANSWERS from Atlanta." The government asserted in its announcement that MARTA's "rate of personal security events" was twice the national average. This story continues below.
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Some city leaders express concern on MARTA readiness ahead of World Cup, agency says it has 'robust service plan in place' Original

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By Grace King Verified
| WXIA-TV (Atlanta, GA) Verified
ATLANTA — Some city leaders and transit riders are expressing concern about MARTA readiness ahead of the World Cup, while the transit agency pushes back and says it has a "robust service plan in place." Among recent issues that have popped up are the extended effort to install new fare gates for the Better Breeze system across all stations (such gates remain uninstalled at half of the system's 38 stations), some of the glass panels on the gates getting smashed out at some stations and MARTA...
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