1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (747+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Saturday, Sept. 5 —The price of diesel reached an all-time high on Friday, with prices in Atlanta hitting $5.62 a gallon, just shy of the state average at $5.64 a gallon. The national average is $5.85 per gallon. 🌤️ Light…...

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+ day, 14+ 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…...

3+ week, 3+ 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…...

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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (350+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Fulton County continues negotiations to purchase the Atlanta City Detention Center after Fulton County Commissioner Rob Pitts said Wednesday that the parties have agreed on a price. The City of Atlanta and Fulton County have…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (499+ words) The family of the man accused of stabbing and killing someone on the Atlanta Beltline on Sunday has issued an apology on his behalf. Johnathan Hamby, 54, is accused of stabbing 29-year-old Ramon Harris in the neck, killing him on Sunday…...

1+ week, 3+ 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…...

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…...