Atlanta GA

Smyrna First Baptist Church has closed on the $15.8 million sale of its nine acre campus to the city of Smyrna. The newly acquired property — on the corner of Church and King Street — is a key part of Smyrna’s Downtown Development Authority’s campaign, “Downtown the Downtown,”...

City officials, nonprofit partners celebrated three new affordable and rapid housing projects in less than three weeks.

One defendant in the long-running “Young Slime Life” case was acquitted of all charges by a jury earlier this month. How...

GEORGIA — Party City is going out of business, closing all remaining stores in Georgia and elsewhere, ending its 40-year reign as the go-to party supplier in the country, according to CNN reporters who viewed a meeting of the company’s corporate employees Friday. CEO Barry...

Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King announced that Deamarkis Barber, 33, of Stockbridge, has been arrested following a multiple-years long insurance fraud investigation. In 2021, investigators with the Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire...

Amarion Jamir Freeman, 20, of Powder Springs, is accused of firing 12 shots from a 9mm handgun at a man and his vehicle, which was struck several times, following a road rage incident on Dec. 8 at 2:12 p.m. at a residence at 4605 Woodbridge Drive in Powder Springs, according to...

Zavier Montaine Jones, 35, of Albany, is accused of robbing three people with a handgun on Dec. 8 at 1:38 a.m. in the parking lot of the Country Hearth Inn & Suites Marietta, 2767 Windy Hill Road in Marietta, according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police...

This past year, 176 people died while homeless in Fulton and DeKalb counties, according to Mercy Care, a healthcare provider for people who are homeless. The organization hosted a memorial Thursday night to honor those who passed. Nearly 100 people gathered outside the Mercy...

Jeremiah Royal, 18, of Marietta, is accused of using a MCP .117 caliber BB gun to force the victim against a wall at Town Center at Cobb mall and remove his sneakers on Dec. 14 at 7:48 p.m., according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police Department. Royal is charged...

ATLANTA - The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) has announced the recipients of its 2024 Affordable Housing Program (AHP) General Fund awards. This year, the bank is distributing more than $55 million in grant funding to support 66 affordable housing...