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The Democratic candidates in a Cobb Board of Education primary in the East Cobb area are fewer than 100 votes apart following Tuesday’s elections. Micheal Garza leads Susan McCartney by 78 votes in Post 4 results that are final, but unofficial, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office.

Police have charged James Andrew Dutton and Elisha Deaton for the incident at Morgan Falls Overlook Park in Sandy Springs.

Kenya Leigh Parker, 51, of Marietta, is accused of shooting a woman in her breast with a black 9mm Taurus PT 709 handgun on May 9 at 8:40 p.m. in the Food Depot parking lot, 250 Windy Hill Road, Marietta, according to an arrest warrant from the Cobb County Police Department. During a verbal altercation between the vic

ATLANTA — Authorities are investigating after a person was struck by a train early Wednesday at a MARTA station in southwest Atlanta. Atlanta police said the incident occurred around 4:43 a.m. at the Garnett station. Officers with the Atlanta Police Department responded to reports of a person hit by a train and, upon a

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The man accused of murdering an Atlanta-area influencer in 2023 and setting her car on fire in Austell is now on trial. Eugene Tobi Louis Jacques faces six charges, including murder, arson and aggravated assault, in connection with the death of his girlfriend, 22-year-old Beauty Couc

An early-morning rollover crash on Interstate 85 northbound near the Buford Highway Connector left one person dead Tuesday, according to Atlanta Fire Rescue. Crews arrived to find an overturned vehicle, worked to stabilize it, and then freed a trapped occupant. The person was pronounced dead at the scene, and investiga

After nearly 16 years locked up for a bank robbery he always said he did not commit, a Douglas County man walked out of custody Wednesday, officially exonerated, according to the district attorney’s office. Brandon Pugh was released after a fresh look at the case concluded that the evidence used to convict him simply d

A former Fulton County Sheriff’s Office sergeant, Louis Brown, III, 41, of Smyrna, was arraigned on federal charges for punching a handcuffed detainee at the Fulton County Courthouse. Brown allegedly punched and slapped a handcuffed detainee, repeatedly, without legal justification on June 4, 2025, while working at the

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — An Acworth man has been arrested and charged with exploiting an elderly man, according to police. Police said Tyler Washington, 26, allegedly isolated Rodney Treece from his family and used Treece’s cars and debit cards without his consent. Washington has been charged...

The Atlanta City Council has approved a feasibility study into whether it can ditch the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and replace federal workers with a private security screening company. The resolution was passed on Monday following a vote by councill