Atlanta GA

Concerns are mounting as the need for food assistance has increased 60% compared to three years ago.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - A violent encounter at a DeKalb County Waffle House sent one person to the hospital late Sunday evening. According to the DeKalb County Police Department, officers found a man just after 9:45 p.m. suffering from a gunshot wound in the 1700 block of Church Street. The...

Federal agents in metro Atlanta have recovered dozens of card skimmers as part of a focused crackdown on electronic fraud, according to recent reports. These skimmers, often undetectable to the untrained eye, have been secretly attached to credit card keypads to siphon off sensitive personal financial information,...

Edward Cherry has already pleaded guilty to three murders in metro Atlanta, and soon could face more charges in Florida.

Three people were hospitalized after a small aircraft crashed into a Brookhaven, Georgia, residential yard during a late-night weekend training flight.

Romanzo Dennard Brown, 47, of Atlanta, is accused of robbing the Wells Fargo Bank, 5010 Floyd Road in Mableton, of $419 in cash on Aug. 1 at 9:11 a.m., according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police Department. Brown presented a 15-second countdown timer on his cell phone and threatened a bank employee...

CALYTON COUNTY, Ga. - A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn neighborhood. Atlanta police said Rico T. Arnold was arrested during a traffic stop in Clayton County on Friday. The Atlanta Police Department, Riverdale Police Department and the FBI Violent Crime...

ATLANTA, Ga. - Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr has filed several motions to dismiss lawsuits against the state over complaints filed by a confederacy group over Stone Mountain Park. The Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans filed three lawsuits over changes at the park. One lawsuit is over...

In a moment that instantly went viral in 2019, Morehouse commencement speaker Robert F. Smith surprised graduates at the 135th ceremony with the news that he would be paying off all their student loans. Now Smith, in partnership with Live Nation Urban and the city of Atlanta, wants to help even more HBCU students...

Angela Rowen, 29, of Powder Springs, is accused of stealing a dog from Sweetwater Park, 2447 Clay Road in Austell, on Aug. 3 at 8 p.m., according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police Department. Rowen noticed the victim’s dog alone at the park, took the animal and got into her vehicle. The victim...