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A Delta flight going from Miami to Atlanta returned to the gate after a woman refused to get off her phone as they were preparing for takeoff, police said.

"Her energy she brought to the crowd, she was just a good person," said Antoine Fortson, the father of one of victim Tinisha Cade's children

A Marietta man is accused of pulling a false fire alarm, flooding an apartment building and waving a handgun as residents evacuated. Richard Allen Warren, 35, of Marietta, is accused of breaking the sprinkler on the fourth floor of his apartment building and pulling the fire alarm on April 25 at 11:40 p.m. at 1960 Spectrum Circle in Marietta, in the Ilion Apartments...

ATLANTA — Actor Josh Brolin and his wife, Kathryn, are selling their massive Sandy Springs compound after owning it for about six years. Brolin's listing agent, Jacob Bean, said in an Instagram post that the seven-bedroom, 11-bathroom mansion has been rented in recent years and is "the preferred haven for a handful of Hollywood's while working in Atlanta."

Four individuals, including former postal workers, face federal charges in a scheme to steal valuable items from the mail, including a $4.9 million U.S. Treasury check.

Midtown Atlanta logged roughly 2,197 crashes in 2025, which works out to about six a day, and 436 of those wrecks involved injuries. It is the highest crash count the district has seen since before the pandemic, and it has put an uncomfortable spotlight on safety along Midtown’s busiest streets.

A new public dashboard from Atlanta’s Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative shows a growing number of Atlantans are calling 311 for non-emergency supportive services, but still rely on 911 for a majority of calls. Since 2021, PAD has responded to calls that otherwise would have gone to the police,...

Arlington Capital Partners just took a big swing in the nuclear engineering game, acquiring Enercon and folding it together with Pond & Company to create a single, Atlanta-area engineering hub with more than 2,700 professionals. The combined group pulls nuclear, environmental and infrastructure engineering under one management team, sharply boosting the region's ability to compete for large utility and government projects.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The Paulding County Sheriff’s Office had a little fun informing the public of a recent traffic stop that resulted in a drug bust. In a Facebook post, the sheriff’s office said, “Earlier this week, our HEAT and ACE Unit worked an operation when a car rolled up to them smelling like a dispensary exploded in the front seat, tags...

EAST POINT, Ga. — A man is in custody after a violent daytime carjacking at a shopping center in East Point that led officers to a nearby elementary school where the stolen vehicle was later found abandoned. According to the East Point Police Department, officers responded around 2:55 p.m....