3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (376+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta A Gwinnett County mother accused of leaving her infant son in a hot car while she worked is out of jail, over prosecutors’ objections that she remains a danger to her two surviving children. Deja…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (274+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Georgia marked the second anniversary of the deadly 2024 Apalachee High School shooting as Apalachee Remembrance Day while drawing calls for state leaders to move beyond commemorations and enact measures to prevent another tragedy. “Two years…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (654+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Norcross leaders and officials from around Gwinnett County officially cut the ribbon on Sept. 1 at the new Norcross Public Safety Building on Buford Highway, celebrating the most expensive project in city history. The roughly $27 million…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (253+ words) The Sandy Springs Police Department on Aug. 31 announced the arrest of 17-year-old Christopher Castillo, charged with murder in the Aug. 28 fatal shooting of 25-year-old Williams Lopez Rodriguez. When officers entered the victim’s residence, the man was found with an apparent…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago   (211+ words) Friends and family are remembering Ramon Harris, the 29-year-old man who died in a stabbing along the Atlanta Beltline on Aug. 23. Channel 2’s Ashlyn Webb spoke to several of his friends at a vigil for Harris on Saturday in Freedom…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (253+ words) National grocery chain Kroger Co. has settled a federal lawsuit alleging it failed to accommodate an employee with disability at the Edgewood Retail District location. Under a two year consent decree, Kroger will pay $75,000 to a former cashier to settle…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (690+ words) Echoes of the past Here are the headlines: ⚕️ Georgia health officials moved to add low-income people living with certain HIV diagnoses to a list of the “medically frail,” meaning they wouldn’t have to satisfy work requirements to qualify for Medicaid…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (682+ words) Starting next summer, Georgia’s highest court will no longer routinely hear appeals in murder cases. Under Georgia law, the state’s high court has jurisdiction over all capital cases — that is, cases where the death penalty has been imposed. But the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (210+ words) Atlanta Police Officer DeVante Matthews was shot on Monday morning while responding to a call concerning a mental health crisis. According to APD, officers responded to an armed individual experiencing a mental health crisis at 1421 Clark Howard LN SW around…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (626+ words) A Florida man will spend 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in connection with a Ponzi scheme that bilked more than 2,000 investors out of about $380 million. U.S. District Judge Tiffany R. Johnson sentenced Todd Burkhalter, 55, to the maximum allowed in federal…...