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FOREST PARK, Ga. — Fire officials are investigating after a fire at a liquor store in Forest Park on Tuesday. Deputy Chief Jeff May with the City of Forest Park Fire Department said crews were called to the Dixie Package located off Old Dixie Highway at around 5 p.m. on Aug. 19 in reference to heavy smoke seen coming...

Kennesha Floyd of Atlanta is accused of leaving a package of 7Tabz containing 7-Hydroxymitragynine containing compounds from Mitragyna Speciosa (Kratom) on a shelf in a daycare room with multiple juveniles on Aug. 8 at 1 p.m. at Bright Minds Learning and Child Care Center, 200 Veterans Memorial Highway in Mableton,...

Police are searching for a man they say shot his brother and attacked his brother’s girlfriend on Monday night.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - The suspect in a deadly hit-and-run on I-75 in Marietta last week was a police officer at the time of the accident, according to law enforcement officials. On Wednesday, 36-year-old Terrell Lowdermilk from Chattanooga, Tennessee, was hit and killed on I-75 N near South...

Edward Luke Chappel, 45, of Atlanta, was arrested yesterday after allegedly persuading a locksmith to change the locks on a rental house that he claimed to have purchased. The post Atlanta man arrested for elaborate scheme to claim ownership of house appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

Clayton County police say they are investigating an incident where an officer shot and killed his neighbor’s dog.

An "intoxicated" Georgia man confronted a friend who owed him money while picking up his sister from a sports bar and gunned him down following a 40 minute talk inside the victim's car. The post 'Stood over that guy … and kept on shooting': Man blew friend away over $1,600 he was owed after spotting him at sports...

JONESBORO — According to the Clayton County District Attorney’s Office, an alleged serial killer recently pleaded guilty to two 2020 murders. According to a Tuesday, Aug. 19 press release from the DA’s Office, Edward Cherry pleaded guilty to two counts of malice murder, three counts of possession of a firearm during...

Fulton County leaders are expected to consider a plan Wednesday that would build a "special purpose facility" to house detainees with mental health issues and renovate its long-troubled Rice Street jail. Why it matters: The Fulton County Jail is under a federal consent decree, a legally binding document that...

MARIETTA, Ga. — A Marietta used car dealership has closed its gates following an Atlanta News First investigation that uncovered a pattern of customer complaints and a suspended used car dealer’s license. Alliance Automotive Group, a small, high-mileage used car lot on South Cobb Drive in Cobb County,...