Alpharetta GA

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The City of Alpharetta is asking for the public’s help in building the next generation of the beloved Wacky World playground in Wills Park. The city is asking the public to participate in hundreds of shifts from March 9-14 and then March 23-25 for the reconstruction. Each day will have three build...

MILTON, Ga. — Longtime Milton resident and financial planner Jack Miller launched his campaign for House District 47 Feb. 20 the day after a retirement announcement from House Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones. Miller announced his campaign on Facebook. A graduate of Milton High School, Miller stayed close to...

Video shows arrests in a human trafficking investigation in Gwinnett County.

BROOKHAVEN, Ga. - A 36-year-old food delivery driver is accused of pointing a gun at the front of a restaurant after becoming angered over slow service. Maze Timothy Coburn was arrested on Feb. 24. He was booked into the DeKalb County Jail on four counts of aggravated assault and cruelty to children in the third...

Police say they are preparing for more so-called ‘takeover’ events after chaos at The Battery Atlanta led to 17 arrests last weekend.

A Fannin County man convicted of trafficking over a kilogram of methamphetamine in Cherokee County will spend three decades in prison. On Feb. 24, a Cherokee County jury found Ricky Wright, 39, of Fannin County guilty of trafficking methamphetamine, and on Feb. 25 he was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Shannon...

WOODSTOCK, Ga. — Three people, including two repeat offenders, were sentenced to prison for trafficking methamphetamine in Cherokee County, according to the county's district attorney's office. During overnight hours in March 2025, a traffic stop led a Woodstock police officer to find over 175 grams of meth packed...

There has been a significant uptick in Black folks being found hanged in recent years. BOSSIP has published numerous posts about hangings, and in almost all those cases, police conclude that “there is no evidence of foul play,” much to the chagrin of the victims’ families and the Black community at large. Hanging and...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A woman has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman found dismembered in 2007. Angel Thompson was indicted on more than 80 counts by a Fulton County grand jury, including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, concealing a death, and dozens of...

GEORGIA — Three men have been arrested and accused of operating a methamphetamine conversion lab in the backyard of an Atlanta-area home, federal authorities said. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Sergio Cortes-Nieto, 53; Jose Angel Cortes Raquel, 39; and Christian...