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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta could see movement in the redevelopment of North Point Mall within the coming weeks. Mayor Jim Gilvin announced during his State of the City address Feb. 5 the mall’s owner New York Life Co. “has engaged a new local partner to help shape its vision of transforming North Point Mall into an...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — After deferrals of a resolution condemning recent immigration enforcement efforts, the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners withdrew a resolution condemning recent shootings in Minneapolis by immigration officers. The resolution also said that immigration tactical teams are not...

Investigators are seeking the public's help to identify two people believed to be connected to a November murder that happened on Highway 85 in Riverdale.

A Cobb County father says a high school principal assaulted his son during a school walkout to protest ICE operations.

Fulton County Schools said Palmetto Elementary School is under a hard lockdown Tuesday.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A former state employee was charged with nearly $230,000 in COVID-19 fraud, the Georgia attorney general said. Porsha Robinson, a former employee of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, allegedly conspired with five other people to defraud the agency’s Emergency Rental...

Kristopher Howard Ricketts, 36, of Marietta, is accused of felony escape and driving under the influence, according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police Department. Ricketts was found asleep behind the steering wheel of a 2018 black Ford Explorer with the vehicle in drive at the intersection of Roswell...

A Kennesaw man who was previously accused of attempted kidnapping filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against the agencies that charged him with the crime.

Fulton County prosecutors plan to seek life without parole if King is convicted of murder.