Atlanta GA

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Fire crews were called to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Sunday morning after a smoke smell was reported from one of the airport’s Plane Trains. According to the airport, Atlanta Fire and Rescue responded to the reports of the smell coming from the Plane...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A $25 million lawsuit will be filed soon by the mother of a student killed in last year’s Apalachee High School shooting. The lawsuit is being filed by Breanna Schermerhorn, whose son, Mason Schermerhorn, 14, was one of four people killed in the Sept. 14, 2024, school shooting....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reinstated more than 400 employees who had previously been laid off, the largest number of employees that the agency has asked back to date. This comes after Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired approximately 1,300 CDC employees...

The Austell City Council is weighing a proposal to more than double its millage rate and raise taxes by 158%, a year after it aborted a similar proposal. If approved, the millage rate would increase by five mills, from 3.25 mills to 8.25 mills. The tax hike would more than double tax revenue for the city, collecting...

More than $1 million in cryptocurrency was stolen from a Buckhead blockchain security startup, Starter Labs, by remote workers using fake identities.

Police are investigating a shooting that left one man dead.

Gerrica Wilson, mother of Andre Jones, expresses her unbearable grief and calls for community action against gun violence after her son's murder. Two suspects, Dametris Bush and Jaharri Foster, have been arrested and charged with murder, but Wilson finds little comfort as her son was not the intended target. Wilson...

Seven Georgia residents – including two from Atlanta and three from Dunwoody – have been charged in a federal indictment, allegedly conspiring to ship thousands of parcels containing fentanyl and methamphetamine across the United States. According to officials with the United States Attorney’s Office, Middle District...

The Fulton County Board of Commissioners announced it planned to increase property taxes by more than 12% over the rollback millage rate.

Two women say they have accountability after they were awarded $13 million in a civil case against a spa and its owner.