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DeKalb County Fire Rescue said firefighters are on the scene of an early morning house fire. A home on Union Grove Road is destroyed after the resident told Channel 2’s Steve Gehlbach his couch caught fire. Now, Union Grove Road remains closed to traffic as fire crews remain on scene. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app fo

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Towns County Sheriff Kenneth Henderson, whose physical confrontation with a north Georgia police officer was first reported by Atlanta News First Investigates, resigned his office Monday morning and entered into a negotiated plea deal that will allow him to avoid jail time. Under the

A Code Orange air quality alert is in effect Monday across much of metro Atlanta and north Georgia. Outdoor air is expected to be unhealthy for some residents. Areas covered: The alert includes Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Hall, Henry, Ne

Fulton County’s latest count found 323 people experiencing homelessness outside Atlanta. More than one-third of those living without shelter were counted in Roswell and Alpharetta. Homelessness rose sharply across Fulton County outside the city of Atlanta this year, with Roswell and Alpharetta accounting for a surprisi

Marisa Velasco disappeared from Norcross, Georgia (Gwinnett County), on December 17, 2005, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Her photo above is an age-progressed likeness of how she might have looked at 16, though she would now be 22.

A historic cabin that’s among the oldest existing structures in Cobb County is ready to be reconstructed after going through a lengthy expert analysis, according to a Wednesday Facebook post by Cobb Landmarks, a local nonprofit that works to preserve historic sites around the county. The cabin, known as the Power-Jacks

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A man died Sunday after getting stabbed near the Kroger located on the Atlanta Beltline, according to police. The victim was taken to a hospital in critical condition and later died from his injuries, police said. His identity has not been released. The...

Civil rights leader Bishop William J. Barber II will speak at historic Big Bethel AME Church as part of a national voter mobilization tour ahead of the 2026 elections.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - DeKalb County police officers are searching for a shooter who wounded a person early Sunday morning along Candler Road. Officers went to the 2500 block of Candler Road around 5 a.m. Sunday after receiving reports of a shooting, according to the DeKalb County Police Department. When...

[The Cobb County Courier has the policy of omitting the names of survivors of traffic incident that are still under investigation]. A 26-year-old Cartersville man was killed early Saturday when his vehicle struck a tractor-trailer near the I-75 and I-575 interchange, according to Cobb County police. The crash happened