Decatur GA

A weak earthquake rattled portions of Georgia Saturday evening in an area north and west of Atlanta, the same exact area hit by another weak earthquake back on November 23. According to USGS, the weak magnitude 1.6 earthquake struck from a depth of 9.5 km at at 10:41 pm Saturday night near the town of LaFayette,...

ATLANTA (WUPA) — Three Atlanta high school seniors got the surprise of a lifetime when they went to school on Friday. They were accepted on the spot into the Georgia Institute of Technology. It’s a moment that, for one family, was decades in the making, and CBS News Atlanta...

Neighbors in southwest Atlanta woke up to gunshots and a man dead in the middle of the street. The shooting happened Monday just before 6 a.m. on Cornell Blvd. One neighbor said she heard around half a dozen gunshots. There were three to four at first. “…then a pause for like two seconds. Then another shot," said the...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. — An Atlanta Police officer was arrested and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after an indictment alleged that she tortured her dog before killing it. The indictment, obtained by 11Alive, alleges that Zabria Jarie Bridges intentionally broke her dog Layla's bones. The indictment said...

Brookhaven police arrested a “Love & Hip Hop Atlanta” reality TV cast member Monday.

A man in Powder Springs is facing two counts of murder, accused of ambushing and fatally shooting his mother and stepfather as they returned home from a birthday celebration.

The man accused of going on a deadly rampage in Gwinnett County Friday is finally in police custody.

With Christmas and Kwanzaa right around the corner, it’s time to get started on those holiday shopping lists. In Georgia, 10% of all businesses are owned by people who identify as Black or African American, more than triple the nationwide average, according to Pew Research. It also found that 90% of Black-owned...

TAMPA — A Covington man who acted as the “money mule” in a wire fraud conspiracy has pleaded guilty in federal court in Tampa, Fla. K’imani Brennen Fletcher, 26, formerly of Conyers, faces 20 years in prison for his role in a scheme in which he posed as a bail bondsman to defraud victims of more than $40,000. He...

John Laakso, a former engineering manager at a manufacturing company in Savannah was sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzling nearly $500,000 from his employer.