Decatur GA

Cesar Tejada's alarm went off like any other day. He had no idea it would be the last time he left for work.

After walking roughly 1,300 miles on foot, a group of 18 Buddhist monks traveling from The Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., stopped in Decatur on Dec. 30, drawing thousands to a peace gathering that blended spiritual reflection with civic engagement. The Georgia stop...

ATLANTA — A Georgia state representative, who left her seat at the start of the year, is now being accused of pandemic fraud. An indictment filed Jan. 5 in the U.S. District Court for Georgia's Northern District accuses Karen Bennett of collecting $13,940 after filing a false application. The document states she...

The trial for 17-year old Sarah Grace Patrick was scheduled to begin on Monday.

ATLANTA - A mother is warning about the dangers of celebratory gunfire after a bullet flew through a window and multiple walls, landing inches from her family inside her West Side Atlanta home. What they're saying:. Shari Woods said she and her family are traumatized after a bullet entered her...

COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. — Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced the indictment of three people on Monday for trafficking in the separate cases of two girls who had been reported missing. According to AG Carr, the underage girls were recovered through the course of the investigation. A 29-year-old, Sean...

DECATUR, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The three inmates who escaped the DeKalb County Jail on Dec. 21 appeared in a federal court in Florida on Monday on federal kidnapping charges. The arraignment and pretrial detention hearing is now set for Jan. 16 in Fort Lauderdale. A suspect is wanted in connection...

A multi-vehicle collision on Highway 78 in DeKalb County last Saturday morning left a woman dead. The crash occurred near Mountain Industrial Boulevard, shutting down eastbound lanes and causing major traffic delays, as per FOX 5 Atlanta. Authorities were called to the scene around 6 a.m., and emergency crews...

Investigators are asking anyone with information about the shooting to contact DeKalb police or submit tips through the department’s free app.

Georgia health officials expect flu cases to rise​ as people return to work and class, and schools are doing what they can to prevent the spread.