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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - An Atlanta high school was briefly placed on lockdown after receiving a bomb threat, according to Atlanta Public Schools. APS said Booker T. Washington High School was placed under lockdown Monday. According to APS, “no suspicious or harmful items were located.”

Helping Mamas, Georgia’s largest diaper bank located in Norcross, is facing a critical shortage as many families in the metro area struggle to afford diapers.

A 16-year-old has been arrested and charged with killing a 17-year-old at a Mableton residence Saturday night, according to Cobb Police. The unidentified male suspect was taken into custody on charges of felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime, according to Sgt....

A murder trial is scheduled to begin on Monday for one of the men accused of killing 8-year-old Secoria Turner in July 2020 as she was riding with her mother near the Wendy's in southwest Atlanta where police fatally shot Rayshard Brooks.

FOREST PARK, Ga. - UPDATE: Atlanta Police Department have released new information connecting this arrest to an armed robbery of an armored vehicle transport company employee on Metropolitan Parkway. ORIGINAL STORY: section of Forest Parkway near Frontage Road and Falcon Drive was shut down briefly Monday following...

Police have arrested a man accused of shooting and robbing an armored truck driver outside a Kroger in Atlanta. Investigators identified the suspect as 19-year-old Clinton Mayers, who was arrested in Forest Park. The latest developments and how police caught the suspect, LIVE on Channel 2 Action News at 4:00 p.m....

All three suspects charged in last week’s fight at an east Cobb Waffle House have been arrested and booked, according to jail records. The suspects, Sammy Dodd, 17, of Ball Ground; Daniel Riley, 18, of Calhoun; and Blake Talley-Stewart, 17, of Roswell, are accused of either directly assaulting Waffle House workers or...

LISTEN: Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta recently performed Georgia’s first commercial gene therapy transplant for a genetic disease requiring lifelong blood transfusions. GPB’s Ellen Eldridge explains. Doctors with Children's Healthcare of Atlanta successfully corrected a genetic defect via a commercially available...

Officers are also searching for a second suspect they believe to be working with Noble.

Boonkiat Sudhasirikul, 69, of Kennesaw, is accused of spraying Raid Defend spray on his roommate’s food cooking in an air fryer without his knowledge on Aug. 23 at 4:48 p.m. at a residence at 4008 Avalon Parkway in Kennesaw, according to an arrest warrant from the Kennesaw Police Department. The incident was...