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Turner Supply announced Sunday that it has acquired Georgia MRO distributor Progressive Supply. Progressive Supply’s Woodstock, Georgia, branch will become Turner’s ninth location and its first in the Atlanta area — expanding its existing capabilities in the North Georgia market. Progressive serves the area's...

A man has been arrested and charged with committing an armed robbery at a jewelry store in Woodstock Sunday, police announced. According to the Woodstock Police Department, officers responded just after 4:30 p.m. Sunday to a 911 call reporting an armed robbery and jewelry stolen at Kay Jewelers at The Outlet Shoppes...

Kevaughn Hyatt, 24, of Marietta, is accused of possessing a 9mm Taurus G3C pistol in his left front jacket pocket while stealing items from the Family Dollar, 567 Cobb Parkway N., Marietta, on Jan. 28 at 6:15 p.m., according to an arrest warrant from the Marietta Police Department. Hyatt is accused of taking frozen...

A body-worn camera from local police officers in Fulton County captured the FBI raid of the Georgia elections center. And professor James Sample, Hofstra University School of Law, told MS NOW that the arguments in the short 93-second bodycam video shows a debate over the process of the warrant. Sample says it might...

Western wear retailer Cavender’s Boot City is coming to Lawrenceville, the company announced this past weekend. The chain will open its fifth Georgia store, and its third in Gwinnett County, later this year at Sugarloaf Mills in Lawrenceville. An exact opening date has not been announced, but Cavender’s officials...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — County school administrators and principals got a chance to touch base with the Board of Education at a recent two-day retreat at Atlanta Tech Park in Peachtree Corners. The meetings, held Jan. 29 and 30, allowed board members to talk with principals – from elementary...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Gwinnett County paramedic died off duty last month, according to Gwinnett County Fire and Emergency Services. The department said Joshua Garay died Jan. 18. He had been with the department since March 2024, serving with Fire Station 6 and Fire Station 20.

A local annual count of homeless people in Cherokee County found a record-high number this year, the Cherokee County Homeless Veterans Program reports. Local nonprofits and volunteers who conducted the count found nearly 500 homeless people in Cherokee County, CCHVP Director Jim Lindenmayer said. “That’s the highest...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. - One person was hospitalized, and a dog passed away from a house fire that happened in Cherokee County early Tuesday morning. Crews responded to the fire at a home on Lewis Road near Canton to find it engulfed in flames, officials said. Firefighters brought the fire...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Grief hangs over the family and community mourning the loss of Gwinnett County Police Officer Pradeep Tamang, 25, who was shot and killed over the weekend. “I just miss him,” said Pragyan Tamang, the younger brother of Officer Pradeep Tamang. The Tamang...