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LITHONIA, GA. - Officers swarmed a Lithonia neighborhood Monday evening after a report of multiple people shot. The shooting happened in the 2000 block of Mallard Crest in Lithonia. According to the DeKalb County Police Department, three people were shot at the location and drove themselves to an area hospital.

A well-known Atlanta-area attorney has been sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of tax evasion, bringing an end to a years-long investigation into his financial activities. Amjad Ibrahim, a 60-year-old attorney from Johns Creek, Georgia, was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison afte

Middleburg Communities has slipped into the metro Atlanta development scene with a new proposal in Fairburn, positioning the south Fulton suburb as the company’s local beachhead. The Virginia-based firm has filed concept plans for a Mosby-branded apartment community at 5650 Milam Road, a roughly 14-acre site along Fair

For years, the bargain was obvious. Want more space? Move farther out. Want a bigger yard? Give the highway an hour of your life every morning, every night. Want room for parents, teenagers, a home office, and the Christmas decorations you swear you’re going to organize someday? Keep driving. But every extra bedroom ca

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A two-week-long standoff between the City of Mableton and Cobb County over law enforcement services has come to an end after the two sides came to an agreement. The original intergovernmental agreement (IGA) expired on May 31. Officials said the city and county...

The Cherokee County NAACP’s annual Juneteenth Festival is returning to Cherokee County for the fifth edition, this time in downtown Woodstock. The annual event, this year co-hosted with Woodstock Arts, is scheduled to take place from 1 to 7 p.m. June 20 at the Woodstock Arts Event Green, 111 Elm St. in downtown Woodsto

A drive-thru breakfast and coffee shop could be coming to the site of a former Cobb County fire station in northwest Cobb. Next month, the Cobb County Planning Commission will consider a rezoning request to allow a 7 Brew Coffee off Mars Hill Road, south of Stilesboro Road. 7 Brew is a national chain offering over 20,0

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. - A Johns Creek attorney will serve more than a year in federal prison after concealing his income to evade nearly $1.5 million in personal income taxes, according to federal prosecutors. Chief U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May handed down the sentence following a complex investigation by...

It started like any other evening in Johns Creek, Georgia. Lights on in suburban homes. Cars parked neatly in driveways. A neighborhood where nothing ever seemed loud enough to break the calm. But inside one house, behind a closed door on Prestwick Court, something was unraveling fast, quietly at first, then all at onc

Officials said the program is designed to connect people in crisis with resources aimed at long-term stability.