Lawrenceville GA

CONYERS — Rockdale County voters will decide in November whether to add a new 1% sales tax intended exclusively to reduce property taxes collected by the county and the city of Conyers. The Floating Local Option Sales Tax, or FLOST, will appear as a local referendum on the Nov. 3 General and Special Election ballot. The proposal calls for imposing the one percent sales and use tax throughout Rockdale County for five years. The ballot asks voters whether to impose the tax “with the proceeds used

CONYERS — Rockdale County families can celebrate Halloween with an evening of candy, costumes,and family activities at the county’s Trunk or Treat event later this month. The free event will be held Friday, Oct. 30, from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office, 911 Chambers Drive, Conyers. The event will feature decorated vehicles where children can collect candy, along with face painting, a kids’ zone, a haunted hayride, food trucks, and a costume contest. Admission is free,an

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - At least one person died after a shooting late Sunday on Treasure Cove, where investigators removed two vehicles from the scene. A silver Nissan with multiple bullet holes and a white pickup were towed away. FOX 5 Atlanta also observed the medical examiner on the scene.

A 20-year-old man allegedly shot another passenger twice aboard a MARTA bus Thursday evening after complaining about how the man smelled, according to arrest warrants. […] Twenty-Year-Old Man with Baby Allegedly Shoots Another Passenger on Atlanta Bus After Dispute Over His Offensive Smell

Hurricane Isaias moved away from Georgia after knocking out electricity across North Atlanta, damaging trees and power equipment and disrupting weekend plans. The storm’s greatest local effect was not the catastrophic flooding once considered possible. It was the broad trail of wind-related outages left across Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Forsyth counties.

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Officers responded to a report of gunshots in a Gwinnett County neighborhood on Sunday evening and discovered a man dead at the scene. Gwinnett County police officers responded to calls of possible gunshots around 6 p.m. in the 1500 block of Preston Lake Drive. While officers...

Gwinnett County PD are conducting an investigation into a deadly shooting in an apartment complex in Tucker Sunday night.

A shopping center tucked about 22 miles north of downtown Atlanta has changed hands for the first time in 15 years, fetching a sale price that brokers say is the highest for a retail property in the area in four years. Sweet Apple Village in Roswell, Georgia, was nearly fully leased when it traded hands this week, with tenants ranging from a chiropractor's office to a kids' gym.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. - DeKalb County police are investigating after a man was found dead in a Stonecrest neighborhood Friday afternoon. Officers responded to the 80 block of Place Fontaine around 2:02 p.m. when they found a man's body. The DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office also responded to the scene...

The Roswell Police Department announced the closure of their investigation into a late 2024 murder after the suspect’s death.