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A man is wanted for taking $60,000 from a victim in a massive impersonation fraud scheme in Hogansville.

Police in Athens have arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with a killing after a body was found in a tent last week.

aw enforcement recovered 11 missing children in Georgia during a massive nationwide anti-trafficking operation.

Police in Athens have identified a woman found dead on Atlanta Highway in January as 74-year-old Rosalinda Gurley.

Cenobio Olguin Jr. was sentenced to 15 years for sextorting an Ohio teen.

A convicted felon is back in jail after a traffic stop in Haralson County led to a K-9 discovery.

An employee at Conyers Nissan is in stable condition after being stabbed during a fight Friday afternoon.

Two Savannah men are in jail following a high-speed chase that crossed county lines.

Roxanne Sharp was 16 when she was raped and murdered in the woods in Louisiana. Forty-four years after her death, four men were arrested this week, thanks to a podcast.

(Update 4/24/26): The Central Florida Zoo said more than a dozen sloths from Sloth World had been donated to them. The zoo is going to evaluate them and then work with the Species Survival Plan Program to find long-term homes for them at other AZA-accredited facilities. Read more.

A 17-year-old is being held for murder after a mass shooting at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge left a high school senior dead and several other bystanders injured in the crossfire.

Atlanta police confirmed on Friday that police are investigating a person shot and killed and another person stabbed at a home in northeast Atlanta.The shooting and stabbing happened on Vedado Way NE. Police say a 55-year-old woman was found at home with a gunshot wound to the torso and was pronounc

A person died Monday night after being hit by a car on the Buford Highway Connector.

A DeKalb County judge sentenced a 31-year-old woman to life in prison Friday.

Nineteen puppies were rescued from a South Georgia shelter destroyed by wildfires.

Sandy Springs police arrested three men in a proactive sting targeting child predators.

A former Fulton County Jail inmate claims he lost most of his fingers and both legs to sepsis after staffers refused to give him medicine.

A Lilburn man faces multiple arson charges after investigators say he intentionally set fires across three metro Atlanta counties.

Motorists on Franklin Gateway in Marietta are witnessing the beginning of a major transformation as the city’s sports landscape.

Jake Reiner is speaking out for the first time about the tragic 2025 double murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, and the charges against his brother Nick.