Decatur GA

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Beginning on the first of the year, DeKalb County pet owners will be required to register new litters of dogs, cats and rabbits with the county. The move is intended to quell the county’s overcrowded animal shelter and reduce overpopulation that has plagued the area for years.

A driver dragged a metro Atlanta police officer nearly 40 feet with a car during an attempted traffic stop on New Year’s Eve.

A Good Samaritan helped police find the man officers say caused the death of Khaleb Jackson.

ATLANTA - Police have released a video showing a man investigators say followed someone from a business and then robbed them at gunpoint on Christmas Eve. The armed robbery happened around 9:23 p.m. on Dec. 24 along Joseph E. Boone Blvd. NW near Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. NW. According to the Atlanta Police Department,...

Stevenson Charles, 24, Yusuf Minor, 31, and Naod Yohannes, 25, escaped from the DeKalb County Jail in Decatur, Ga., on Monday, Dec. 22 and were later captured in Florida

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A person was shot during an argument in a Stockbridge-area home Wednesday, according to police. Henry County police said the shooting happened in a house on Summerfield Drive. Responding officers found the suspect outside. They found the victim inside, sitting on a couch...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - The mother of a man gunned down at an apartment complex in Stone Mountain says these past couple of weeks without her son have been painful. "I’m taking it one day at a time, still in shock to be honest with you," said the woman, who asked to remain anonymous for safety reasons. "Empty, empty and...

Despite injuries that forced him to no longer continue the Walk for Peace, a metro Atlanta monk says his spirit never left their path.

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - A 10-year-old boy was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Clayton County just days after Christmas, and the driver accused of striking him has now been arrested. What we know:. The crash happened just after 9 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Riverdale Road and Garden...

A Georgia woman who fatally shot her husband three years ago pleaded guilty to charges in the killing and will spend decades in prison for […] Georgia Woman Insisted Her Husband’s Shooting Was an Accident — Until Investigators Dug Into Her Texts and Everything Fell Apart