The Wall Street Journal is reporting that women — at least the young, childless variety — are outearning men in the workplace in most metropolitan areas.

This phenomenon is especially true in Atlanta:

The greatest disparity is in Atlanta, where young, childless women were paid 121% the level of their male counterparts, according to Reach Advisors.

These women have gotten a leg up for several reasons. They are more likely than men to attend college, raising their earning potential.

The NL East-leading Atlanta Braves have put touted prospect Freddie Freeman in the starting lineup for his major league debut.

Freeman was among the players called up Wednesday, when teams can expand their rosters for the final month of the regular season. Atlanta manager Bobby Cox decided to start the 20-year-old against the New York Mets as the Braves go for their fifth straight win.

His fair skin and blue eyes made Edgar Valdez Villarreal resemble a Ken doll and earned him the nickname “La Barbie.”

But there was nothing playful about this allegedly brutal drug lord who federal authorities said ran a drug operation that brought cocaine by the truckload to Atlanta and sent those trucks back to a Mexican cartel carrying millions of dollars in cash.

Delta Air Lines says a 57-year-old passenger was found dead aboard a flight from Nigeria to Atlanta.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said an autopsy determined Aolatou Assani died of ovarian cancer.

A fire that broke out at a Clorox Co. (CLX) manufacturing facility near Atlanta on Thursday morning has been extinguished, the bleach maker said.

The Forest Park, Ga., facility, one of the company’s main manufacturing centers for bleach and cleaners, was evacuated, a Clorox spokeswoman said.

The company is assessing the damage to the facility and doesn’t know at this time when it will resume operations.

A man suspected in 18 attacks in three states, including five fatal stabbings, was being extradited to Michigan on Thursday to face charges in at least one of the assaults.

Elias Abuelazam left an Atlanta jail Thursday morning, Fulton County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Tracy Flanagan said in an e-mail.

Cobb County police say a Florida man missing eight days while in Atlanta for work has been found.

Cobb police say they got an anonymous tip early Wednesday that 46-year-old Randal Race was in a DeKalb County motel room.

A software developer, Henderson was one of the first to arrive Monday morning at City Hall East for a massive liquidation sale of used items the city no longer needs.

The sale is the first step in cleaning out the old building as the city prepares to sell it. Hundreds of tables, desks, bookshelves and chairs were on sale at low, low prices.

While looking for a chair for his office, Henderson noticed a large back metal rack for computer servers standing more than 6 feet tall.

Nearly two months after the departure of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s general manager, Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed has selected three finalists in the search for a successor.

John D. Clark III, executive director and CEO of the Indianapolis Airport Authority; Louis Miller, former executive director and CEO of Tampa International Airport; and Lester Robinson, former CEO of Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, each bring a different background in airport management.

“The Real Housewives of Atlanta” is doubling the drama this season by adding two new cast members.

Model Cynthia Bailey and entertainment lawyer Phaedra Parks will join NeNe Leakes, Kim Zolciak, Kandi Burruss and Sheree Whitfield for season three of the Bravos hit series, the network announced. Cast regular Lisa Wu Hartwell is exiting the show.