Atlanta GA

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Employees of Atlanta Public Schools are getting $2,000 bonuses, the district announced Friday morning. The stipends will be distributed on April 15 and is based on employment status, with most full-time employees receiving up to $2,000 and part-time, substitute and hourly employees...

The United Parcel Service says it will continue offering drivers thousands of dollars to resign across the rest of the country after the delivery giant pulled the offer from 13 central region states, such as Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky, last week. UPS says its latest buyout program, which allows eligible...

Atlanta is the No. 4 market in the United States for first-time homebuyers this spring, according to a new Zillow analysis. The listing platform ranked the 50 largest U.S. metros by metrics including rental affordability, for-sale inventory and demographics to determine the best areas to break into the housing market.

With spring break about to flood Atlanta with out-of-school teens, Mayor Andre Dickens rolled out a new youth safety push Thursday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation and Aquatic Center, introducing a program dubbed SO ATL that is built around supervised, alcohol-free "third spaces" for students. The initiative...

ATLANTA (ANF/Gray News) — A Georgia family is still in shock after a raccoon attacked their dog in their backyard, and the whole thing was caught on camera. Sean Yanes said he took his dog, Ro Ro, outside on Sunday evening and spotted the raccoon, initially thinking nothing of it.

A multi-location crackdown in and around South Fulton on Friday, April 3, 2026, pulled in a haul of guns, what officers called a "significant" stash of illegal drugs, and a suspect wanted on a murder warrant. Two people were taken into custody as South Fulton police and federal marshals hit several locations across...

Southern Airways Flight 242 crashed near Atlanta, Georgia, during a tornado outbreak on April 4, 1977. Georgia’s worst-ever plane crash occurred in the middle of a tornado outbreak on April 4, 1977. A line of severe thunderstorms heavily damaged the commercial jet as it approached Atlanta, forcing the crew...

A 21-year-old Atlanta man is behind bars after investigators say he sprayed bullets at homes and people during a 2024 Lithonia drive-by, a burst of gunfire that neighbors said rattled windows along Stonebridge Crescent. The shooting happened on Feb. 10, 2024, and, despite the chaos, authorities reported no injuries....

An Atlanta-based urology practice and its physician owner have agreed to pay $14 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations of billing federal healthcare programs for medically unnecessary and unperformed procedures, the Justice Department said in an April 2 news release. Jitesh Patel, MD, and Advanced Urology...

Someone hacked into her account and stole thousands of dollars.