Decatur GA

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The family of an 18-year-old charged with vehicular homicide in the tragic prank gone wrong says they are “in deep remorse.”. In a statement, the family says the North Hall County teacher, Jason Hughes, “meant the world” to their son Jayden “Jay” Wallace.

Members of a South Fulton church say over 100 tires were illegally dumped on church grounds, damaging historic graves on the property.

A 3-year-old boy is recovering after police say he accidentally shot himself inside an Atlanta home on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, and his father is now facing an aggravated-assault charge. Investigators say the child climbed into a closet, pulled a gun out of a bag, and fired, hitting himself in the hand. The...

Georgia – A 22-year-old man from Oaxaca, Mexico is facing federal charges after authorities say he attempted to distribute large quantities of fentanyl in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The case centers on allegations that Martin Armando Gonzalez-Martinez, who investigators say was in the United States illegally, was...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - An Atlanta woman said she canceled a debt relief with a company that is under investigation by the Georgia Attorney General’s consumer protection division. She said the cancelation saved her thousands of dollars in debt settlement fees. Victoria Walker had recently signed a...

ATLANTA — More than 40 people who had been living in a homeless encampment off Memorial Drive near Moreland Avenue say they were forced out earlier this year and left without a place to go. Now, that lot is fenced off with no trespassing signs after they were all...

ATLANTA, Ga. — An administrator at The Kindezi School, a public charter school in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood, is off the job after allegedly posting a video online of young students fighting in the lunchroom. In the video, which has gone viral, you can see multiple kindergarteners...

Elizabeth Gill, a mother from Atlanta, says she’s grateful to the firefighters who gave her the chance to say a final goodbye to her daughter after she was critically injured in a tragic fire, which later claimed her life. On the fateful night of February 21, 2016, 37-year-old Rachel Thorn’s house in Pharr Manor...

ATLANTA - A popular brewery on the Atlanta Beltline Eastside Trail announced its sudden closure on Monday. BrewDog Atlanta, a Scottish craft brewery off Krog Street, announced its permanent closure on Monday. The news, shared via social media, marks the end of the taproom’s multi-year run in the Krog District....

An assistant coach at Allatoona High School and fourth grade teacher at Rocky Mount Elementary School was arrested Sunday on charges of engaging in a sex act with a minor. Mareno Danielle Smith, 37, of Acworth, was arrested by Cobb Police the morning of the alleged incident, which occurred at approximately 2:45 a.m....