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A Tuesday afternoon brawl in metro Atlanta led to two arrests and multiple juveniles facing potential criminal petitions.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A woman was shot multiple times overnight Thursday after she showed up at a home to purchase marijuana, Atlanta police said. At 12:35 a.m., officers arrived at a home in the 100 block of Cleveland Avenue SW after receiving a call about a person being shot.

The Atlanta Fire Department said five new Spartan pumping engines have arrived and are now being outfitted with equipment and safety systems.

Heavy rain and strong to severe storms are moving through the North Georgia and metro Atlanta area.

An Atlanta-based journalist is now a Pulitzer Prize winner for his analysis on the city’s “working homeless.”. On Monday, author Brian Goldstone was awarded in the general non-fiction category for his 2025 book, “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America.”. “These are the...

Police updated the public around 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

DeKalb County police investigated what appears to be a death in the parking lot of a Publix grocery store.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson is expected to deliver the annual State of the County address on Thursday. The speech will highlight job growth, major projects and what’s next for businesses, neighborhoods and infrastructure. It takes place at noon at Assembly Studios, a film and television production campus owned by Gray Media, Atlanta News First’s parent company.

Antonio Pierre Ashmeade was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years in federal prison for his role in a major Atlanta drug distribution ring. Ashmeade was the last of 13 members and associates of the "Paper Gang Family" to be sentenced following a multi-agency investigation. Law enforcement seized 30 firearms and massive...

“I am shaking,” Eileen Reimer, an Atlanta-based retiree, says as she takes home the keys to the waterfront abode on Lake Wylie in North Carolina