Kansas man’s body found at Old Federal Campground
A 69-year-old Kansas man's body was found Thursday morning at Old Federal Campground in Flowery Branch. That's according to the Hall County Sheriff's Office (HCSO), who says the death is not considered suspicious. Deputies responded to the campground at around 8 a.m. after a park visitor found Patrick James O'Toole...
DeKalb man charged with gunning down his own cousin
Police say the cousins were arguing before shots were fired.
‘She almost took a life’: Bullet said to be from officer’s gun pierced bedroom...
Both the Stone Mountain PD and DeKalb County PD confirm they are investigating.
32-year-old woman found dead inside metro Atlanta home
Detectives responded to the 1600 block of Graves Road after reports of a dead woman around 12:20 p.m.
Furloughed CDC employees receive back to work notification
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Times are tough for thousands of federal employees working at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, but it appears there is light at the end of the tunnel. “We just really don’t know... just trying to be positive and be hopeful and look...
Georgia commission approves license for new medical cannabis dispensary as demand grows
The Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission approved a new dispensing license Wednesday, bringing the statewide total to 19, following a major patient enrollment threshold that triggered expansion under state law. The commission’s executive director, Andrew Turnage, said the program surpassed the 25,000 active...
Here’s Georgia’s most mispronounced word
ATLANTA — While some states have trouble pronouncing countries like Qatar, medical terms like staphylococcal or, quite reasonably in Hawaii's case, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, in Georgia we trip over an acclaimed musical artist: SZA. That's according to data compiled by the folks at unscramblerer.com, in...
Someone in metro Atlanta just won $1 million on a scratcher
The Georgia Lottery says someone in Lawrenceville just won $1 million playing Jingle Jumbo Bucks.
Stone Mountain man arrested for shooting his cousin, police say
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. — A Stone Mountain man is under arrest for shooting his cousin, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office. The incident happened on the night of Nov. 3 after officers from DeKalb County responded to reports of someone shot at the 900 block of N. Hariston Road.
‘My life flashed…’ Driver escapes before train hits tractor-trailer in DeKalb County
The crash happened around 5:15 a.m. at Turner Hill Road and Covington Hwy. Traffic Tracker 2 shows what appears to be a tractor-trailer that was hit by the train.
