Alpharetta GA

A man in his 20s was killed in a shooting on Halloween night in DeKalb County. According to FOX 5 Atlanta, the incident happened on the 5000 block of Snapfinger Woods Drive. Authorities believe a gunfight may have occurred near the gas pumps, though it is not confirmed if the nearby Chevron station was the crime scene.

There is also a scheduled food giveaway in Lenora Park on Tuesday and the Sheriff’s Thanksgiving giveaway on Thursday, officials say.

At 83, Shirley Peters Pruitt believes she is the oldest living Black resident in the city of Sandy Springs, where the stories of early Black families have rarely been told as they have been in the neighboring cities of Roswell and Alpharetta. Yet Pruitt and former schoolmates who attended the...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Julie Doss says she became homeless in 2020 following a divorce and bout of depression. “I was left without a place to stay and a vehicle to get around and things like that,” Doss said. Now, Doss often comes to Shady Grove Baptist...

About 20 people gathered outside MUST Ministries’ Canton office Monday morning, some waiting in parked cars to avoid the lingering chill, others bundled up and chatting in English or Spanish. When the doors opened at 10 a.m., the people walked into a waiting room and lined up in front of a receptionist’s desk. One...

Atlanta, GA – A Georgia father has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting his 32-year-old son 12 times during an argument that began over a slammed car door and a dispute involving the son’s girlfriend. The shocking incident unfolded outside an apartment complex in Buckhead, Fulton County, and has left...

A Gwinnett County father is in jail after police say he abandoned his children at a crash scene to attempt two carjackings at a Publix parking lot.

Cobb County Superior Court Judge Robert Leonard II reversed the expulsion of a Cobb County eighth grader who used a district-issued computer to warn his friend about a shooting threat in September 2024. The Cobb County school board upheld the decision to expel, a ruling that was upheld again upon...

Police and firefighters in Georgia teamed up to rescue a deer found with its torso wedged tightly between the bars of a metal fence in the Dunwoody area.

ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) - A father in Atlanta is accused of killing his son after a late-night argument escalated. Officers responded to a 911 call at an apartment complex on Pharr Road shortly after midnight and found a couple arguing inside one of the units. Police said the girlfriend had...