1+ week, 4+ day ago   (383+ words) Atlanta Police Academy trainee Moses Russ, 24, died Sept. 1 in a motorcycle crash in Southeast Atlanta. The incident occurred at Moreland Avenue and McDonough Boulevard, while Russ was on his way to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Russ was pronounced…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (213+ words) Rough Draft Atlanta is metro Atlanta’s leading hyperlocal media organization. We publish monthly print newspapers and the Rough Draft suite of newsletters. With a combined monthly readership of almost 1 million across print and digital, our products reach metro Atlanta’s most…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (294+ words) Georgia Southern University Director of Health and Wellness Gemma Skuraton will receive $250,000 in a settled lawsuit after she was fired from the college in 2025 for opposing rollbacks to LGBTQ+ rights on campus. According to the lawsuit, more conservative leadership took…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (568+ words) Growing public concern about license plate reader systems has led a key state senator to consider legislation to limit abuses by police. After nearly weekly news reports of law enforcement officers accused of misusing license plate reader data for personal…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (298+ words) Several Jewish households in metro Atlanta have received unsolicited letters claiming that their families may be eligible for Holocaust reparations, which Jewish groups have strongly condemned. Sally Levine, executive director of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, and Stacy Hydrick,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (213+ words) Jen Maguire, the co-owner of the Midtown lesbian bar My Sister’s Room (MSR), was arrested early Sunday morning after officers received a noise complaint. This behavior was in violation of City of Atlanta ordinance Sec. 74-131, according to the report, which…...