Marietta GA

A shootout inside an apartment building in the historic district of Sweet Auburn left one person dead and another person injured in Atlanta.

ATLANTA, GEORGIA — A mother was left heartbroken after returning home to find her house completely destroyed by her 12-year-old son, who went on a violent rampage when she confiscated his phone as punishment. The shocking incident, captured in a now-viral video, has sparked widespread discussions on parenting,...

[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...

ATLANTA (WANF/Gray News) - A Georgia family is mourning a mother of three who was killed in a triple shooting just hours after celebrating her daughter’s birthday. Lareon “Lay Lay” Brown, 26, was killed around 1:30 a.m. Sunday after Carrollton Police say a fight escalated to a shooting. She was a mother of three who...

The Marietta City Council in Georgia will hold an agenda work session on Monday, November 10 at 5:15 p.m. An agenda review session is scheduled for Wednesday, November 12 at 6:00 p.m. The regular council meeting will follow at 7:00 p.m.

A group of six people, at least one armed with a gun, broke into several cars early Tuesday morning at the GE Lofts in Atlanta’s Castleberry Hill neighborhood, residents and police said.

ATLANTA — A Halloween email from Atlanta Public Schools is sparking outrage among teachers after the district announced it will no longer provide bonuses many educators were expecting ahead of the holidays. The email, sent at 5:26 p.m. on Friday, informed staff that APS is ending, “hiring, high poverty,...

The amendment, if approved, would be similar to an ordinance already in place in the city of Marietta.

After only an hour of deliberating, the jury returned a verdict the trial against Matthew Pahl, accused of killing his longtime girlfriend. (11/4/25)

Dallas, Georgia – A Hiram man has been sentenced to 30 years in connection with a 2023 crash that claimed two young lives. On October 31, 2025, 20-year-old Logan D. Sanders pleaded guilty to one count of Homicide by Vehicle in the First Degree and one count of Serious Injury by Vehicle. Both charges stem from an...