Urban Alchemy: Transforming Atlanta’s streets with compassionate outreach
Urban Alchemy employs staff with lived experience, including 96% who were incarcerated and homeless, to connect people with resources and housing through compassion and respect. The organization has successfully housed individuals in Atlanta, partnering with nonprofits to provide immediate housing solutions and...
Atlanta’s HBCUs receive threats on 9/11
Clark Atlanta University issued a shelter-in-place order Thursday as campus police and the Atlanta Police Department investigated threats made to the campus.
Sandy Springs man sentenced to 11 years for stabbing fiancée’s dog
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. - A Sandy Springs man who admitted to stabbing his fiancée’s dog and threatening to kill her has been sentenced to more than a decade in prison. Joshua Paul Allen pleaded guilty this week to cruelty to animals in the first degree, terroristic threats, and tampering with evidence, according to Sandy...
Former Stonecrest mayor convicted of fraud disqualified from running for city council
STONECREST, Ga. (Decaturish) — The DeKalb County Board of Registration and Elections disqualified Jason Lary from running for Stonecrest City Council at its Sept. 10 meeting. Lary was recently released from federal prison and is under supervised release following a conviction for stealing COVID-19 relief funds from...
DeKalb police arrest men in stolen car, recover IDs, Social Security cards
DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - DeKalb County police said two men were arrested Thursday night after officers found them inside a stolen vehicle. According to investigators, 59-year-old Terrence Pennamon and 44-year-old Michael Finch were taken into custody outside a gas station in the 4500 block of Glenwood Road. Police said...
Serial rapist convicted in 1997 Kennesaw case
A serial rapist received two life sentences after being convicted of a Kennesaw rape case that was cold for 28 years. Jerry Lee Pruitt, 66, was sentenced by Cobb Superior Court Judge Julie Jacobs. His new sentence will run consecutively to a sentence he was already serving for another sexual assault in Alabama,...
Police arrest suspect in North Gwinnett Co-Op burglary
A Clarkston man who was participating in a work-release program for burglary convictions from last year has been charged with additional crimes stemming from last month’s burglary at the North Gwinnett Co-Op, according to Gwinnett County police. Lavan Hickman, 38, has been charged with burglary and criminal damage to...
Hundreds may have been exposed to latest Ga. measles patient
ATLANTA, Ga. - A new measles case has been reported in Georgia, at least the seventh in the past two years, state health officials said Friday. And the patient apparently has ties to Georgia State University and a restaurant, potentially exposing hundreds of people of more. The latest patient is...
DeKalb County shares fundraiser for family of fallen firefighter
DECATUR, Ga. - DeKalb County is asking the public to support the family of Master Firefighter Preston Fant, who died in the line of duty on Monday while battling a commercial warehouse fire in Stone Mountain. 75% off installation and replacement for LeafFilterLearn how you can save on gutter replacement...
Ben Crump convenes ex-Forest Cove tenants to sue landlord
Three years ago, the city of Atlanta evacuated around 200 low-income families from the notorious Forest Cove Apartments, which had been condemned in 2021, and rehoused them across the metro area. The city bulldozed the dangerous and dilapidated complex soon after. Even so, many of the relocated tenants are still...
