Atlanta GA

Late Tuesday night, a quick ice cream stop at a Dairy Queen on Flat Shoals Road near Decatur turned into a crime scene after reports of an apparent shooting in the parking lot. DeKalb County police were called around 10:15 p.m., and a Channel 2 photographer at the scene spotted a vehicle with a window that appeared to

After an October 2025 road rage shooting, Atlanta Police Department ruled the killing of 21-year-old a “justifiable homicide.”

A federal judge has ordered two defendants to serve time in federal prison after conviction for mail theft, bank fraud and identity theft, the U.S. DOJ confirmed Wednesday.

Medicare mistakenly declares an 88-year-old woman dead, causing her health coverage to be canceled and affecting her medical care.

A suspect involved in a May road rage incident that happened in Kennesaw has been identified. The suspect, 46-year-old Richard Mark Craven of Acworth, is allegedly shown in a video posted by the Kennesaw Police Department to their Facebook page. While the suspect’s name is listed as Craven on the arrest warrant, jail

Tucked inside the charming Halcyon shopping district of Alpharetta, Georgia, Cattle Shed is the kind of restaurant that makes you feel like you discovered something truly special. With a 4.7-star rating from over 1,400 reviews, this upscale steakhouse has earned a loyal following for its incredible food and warm hospit

Freedom bells rang in Galveston Bay, Texas, on June 19, 1865, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing more than 250,000 enslaved people. Now, five years after its official declaration as a federal holiday, Atlanta is celebrating with family-friendly community gatherings, live music

Brownies are not supposed to inspire road trips. Georgia completely ignored that rule. One bite of a rich, fudgy square with melted chocolate tucked into every corner can suddenly turn a quick bakery stop into a full-blown obsession. People swear they are “just grabbing one,” then somehow walk out with boxes for later.

A case of suspected arson was carried out in broad daylight, and an arrest was made with the help of quick-thinking neighbors

[This is an expansion and republication of an evergreen article we first published in July of 2017, when the Courier’s web traffic was about a tenth of our current readership.]. On Nov. 18, 1954, an article in the Atlanta Constitution opened with the following paragraph. “The Belmont Hills Shopping...