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Sharrell Canty, co-owner of Atlanta nightclub Opium, was remembered at a memorial celebration following her fatal shooting at her Gwinnett County home, with the woman accused in her death expected to appear in court. Friends, family and employees gathered at Atlanta nightclub Opium on Tuesday night to celebrate the lif

Freedom bells rang in Galveston Bay, Texas, on June 19, 1865, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing more than 250,000 enslaved people. Now, five years after its official declaration as a federal holiday, Atlanta is celebrating with family-friendly community gatherings, live music

A case of suspected arson was carried out in broad daylight, and an arrest was made with the help of quick-thinking neighbors

[This is an expansion and republication of an evergreen article we first published in July of 2017, when the Courier’s web traffic was about a tenth of our current readership.]. On Nov. 18, 1954, an article in the Atlanta Constitution opened with the following paragraph. “The Belmont Hills Shopping...

An independent investigation is underway into one of the largest fish kills ever recorded on the Chattahoochee River.

Atlanta police shut down part of Edgewood Avenue to investigate a double shooting on Wednesday morning.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A man was stabbed near the Hamilton E. Holmes MARTA Station early Wednesday, Atlanta police said. Although the stabbing did not occur on MARTA property, the transit agency’s police department responded to a call about 3 a.m. from Grady Memorial Hospital about a man being shot, police

A Cobb County mother is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her job, then using it to pay for day care and other personal expenses.

Fulton County investigators say a man was caught trying to break into the Rice Street jail Monday night.

MARTA police say Anthony Gresham shot the teen on Friday night at the Midtown station and went on the run. Officers arrested him on Sunday in Douglas County.