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Mark your calendars, Atlanta! This weekend is the annual traditional Día de los Muertos, or ‘Day of the Dead’ festival, hosted by the Consulate General of Mexico, the Institute of Mexican Culture and Historic Oakland Cemetery at Oakland Cemetery! You don’t want to miss this stunning festival. Keep scrolling to learn more.

The truck belonging to a missing Florida teenager was discovered abandoned in Georgia, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.

Leaders of some of Georgia’s most prominent tenant advocacy organizations are calling for a moratorium on evictions in response to the scale of the region’s eviction crisis and its oversized impact on Black families. Members of the Housing Justice League, Georgia Advancing Communities Together, and the Party for...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is investing an addition $5 million in Keisha Lance Bottoms quest to become the nation’s first Black female governor in history. So far, the DGA has invested $16 million in one of the nation’s most watched gubernatorial...

Four Georgia Muslim organizations and 14 community leaders announced their endorsement of Keisha Lance Bottoms on Monday. The coalition cited Bottoms’ engagement with Muslim communities and her stated positions on health care, data centers, civil rights and religious freedom. The groups encouraged Muslim voters to vote and support candidates...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Gwinnett County police cruiser was involved in a crash overnight on Interstate 85. The crash happened early Monday in the northbound lanes of I-85 near Jimmy Carter Boulevard. The Gwinnett Police Department said that an officer was working a separate incident on...

MIIXTAPECHIICK Aspen Kartier Sentenced to 10 Days in Jail After Pleading Guilty to Animal Cruelty Rising rapper Aspen Kartier has been sentenced to 10 days in jail after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor count of animal cruelty in DeKalb County, Georgia. The artist, whose legal name is Aspen Easterling, appeared before Judge Alvin T. Wong on Wednesday (Oct. 21), where she entered a guilty plea, according to court records obtained […] This post Aspen Kartier Sentenced to 10 Days in Jail Afte

Sunday brings a 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms as clocks move backward one hour.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Brant Frost IV - the massive donor to Republican candidates and the mastermind of a $140 million Ponzi scheme - will learn how many years he will spend in jail on Monday. Frost, 68, has already pleaded guilty to one count of wire...

Cayden Justin Wiliams, 45, of Roswell, is accused of damaging a 2008 BMW Z4 and a 2016 Honda Civic with co-conspirators on Sept. 26 at 1 a.m. at a residence at 1733 Stanwood Drive in Kennesaw, according to an arrest warrant. The group slashed the tires, spray painted both vehicles and smashed the windshield of the BMW, according to the warrant. Williams is charged with criminal damage - second degree. Williams was arrested on Oct. 7 at 7:37 p.m. and booked into the Cobb County Adult Detention