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Notoriously hot summer days in Georgia from May to August are creeping into September, thanks to a huge heat wave in the middle of the country that is affecting millions of people. And experts say climate change is the cause. This week, most of Georgia has been much hotter than normal, staying in the mid-to-high 90s, c

Five Black women district attorneys in Atlanta, Georgia, will be forced to run in nonpartisan elections under a new Georgia law that two of the prosecutors are now challenging in court. House Bill 369, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in May, according to The Atlanta-Journal Constitution (AJC), requires district attorneys...

One of Marietta Square’s more familiar restaurant addresses is changing hands again. After a decade as Piastra and a brief run as Asher & Rose Modern Grocers, the restaurant has been sold to a new buyer who plans to open a French brasserie called Brasserie Genevieve. Chef Greg Lipman...

Birria El Gordo has closed its Marietta location. The restaurant cited rising operating costs as the reason behind the closure. Birria El Gordo Announces Closure of Its Marietta Location. Birria El Gordo, a Mexican restaurant in Marietta, closed on September 3. It was located at 350 Pat Mell Road SE....

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Douglas County inmate escaped from a work detail Thursday morning, according to the sheriff’s office. Around 9:30 a.m., Isaac Kindle reportedly left the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office car wash, where he was assigned, in a sedan driven by a woman.

Channel 2 Action News learned people have been trapped inside elevators at Fulton County Jail more than 100 times.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A South Fulton police officer has passed away, the department announced Thursday. “It is with profoundly heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Officer Danielle McClendon,” the South Fulton Police Department said in a social media post. “Danielle was more than an officer and co

Atlanta is preparing for an unusually busy Labor Day weekend, with three major events expected to draw more than 100,000 people to the city and generate more than $100 million in economic impact.

Photo credit: AI-generated image created using CHATGPT. Illustrative only. A first-time homeowner in DeKalb County, Georgia says she put her life savings into a condo, only to be hit with a bill she didn’t know existed until after closing—and now her HOA is trying to foreclose. The case out of Whitehall Forest East is

ATLANTA - A 16-year-old scholar who overcame childhood displacement and social struggles has graduated high school early to attend Morehouse College. Everett Ceasar Appiagyei-Savoy earned a 3.9 GPA while balancing athletics, student leadership, high school courses and dual-enrollment college classes. Raised by a single