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A Johns Creek woman has been reported missing, police say. Angela Pulliam-Salay was last seen leaving her home Sunday. Police say Pulliam-Salay was was on foot, wearing a gray Peachtree Road Race T-shirt and yellow shorts with a stripe down both sides.

President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to the men and women who have died defending America, pointing to Vietnam veterans as an under-appreciated and sometimes maligned group of war heroes who remained true to their nation despite an unwelcome homecoming.

A Woodstock man drowned Sunday at Lake Allatoona, authorities said. Just before 2 p.m., Cherokee County Sheriff's deputies responded to the Galt's Ferry Day Use area near Acworth. Rigoberto Lara Hernandez, 34, was seen floating in the lake, Sheriff's spokesman Lt.

Atlanta-bound traffic whizzed by at 80 miles per hour along the interstate last week, but inside the Georgia visitor information center near the South Carolina line, it was calm, quiet, Southern and slow. Most visitors made a bee-line to the bathroom.

What storm? If you're a metro Atlantan enjoying Memorial Day, you'll likely be asking that question. Tropical Storm Beryl, so designated by the National Weather Service, is expected to lose steam, Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton predicts.

It might come as a surprise to the joggers in Piedmont Park or the dog walkers around Chastain Park, but the Atlanta park system ranks below average. That’s according to a new study by the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that conserves land for parks and playgrounds in urban and rural areas.

They hailed from Georgia's cities, suburbs and small towns, all serving our country in a time of war. In the past year, each made the ultimate sacrifice. Since last Memorial Day, these Georgians lost their lives while serving overseas. Here, we remember them.

The 53 headstones represent most likely only a fraction of the slaves buried on I-75. The graves are what is known as the Gilbert Cemetery, once an acre of land at the Cleveland Avenue bridge. Thousands of commuters catch a glimpse of the headstones daily on a plot of Department of Transportation land, cut off from any visitors by the ramps of cloverleaf.

Retired Col. Sam Holliday of Atlanta doesn’t remember many names of those who landed in Korea with him. They died too quickly. He does remember the names of those who survived the first onslaught, only to die later. They lived long enough to make an impression.

Carl Beck parachuted into Normandy with the Army's 101st Airborne Division in the wee hours of D-Day. His plane was diverted by anti-aircraft fire and Beck landed 12 miles from his original drop zone. Lost, he miraculously found Robert Johnson, a good friend.

Tropical Storm Beryl moved across northeastern Florida early Monday, bringing drenching rains, driving winds and the threat of flooding to the southeastern U.S. coast, forecasters said. The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported that the center of Beryl made landfall near Jacksonville Beach at around 12:10 a.

Thousands of people flocked to San Francisco's waterfront and onto Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday to celebrate the famous span's 75th birthday. The daylong party attracted pleasure boats, tug boats and other vessels to the water as people on shore enjoyed a number of events stretching from Fort Point south of the bridge to Pier 39 along The Embarcadero.

Security video captured a small plane taking off from a southern Utah airport just before it crashed about 300 yards from the runway, killing all four men aboard, a federal investigator said Sunday. Zoe Keliher of the National Transportation Safety Board said the video shows the single-engine Cessna 172 flying at a low level almost the length of the runway before making a rapid ascent early Saturday morning at St.

A missing Louisiana woman's bicycle has been found in a remote, swampy area under a highway bridge in Iberville Parish, about 25 miles from the spot where she was last seen eight days earlier. Lafayette police spokesman Paul Mouton said Sunday that more than 30 officers searched the area, including a river, for 21-year-old Michaela "Mickey" Shunick, a student at the University of Louisiana.

Tropical storm Beryl could bring heavy rain to metro Atlanta by Tuesday as clouds stream into the area for Memorial Day.  Monday could see a possible shower and thunderstorm, mainly south and east of the city, said Channel 2 Action News meteorologist David Chandley.

A call about a possible suicide attempt Sunday lead Doraville Police to a marijuana grow house that contained more than 400 plants worth about $2.5 million. A man called police around 6 a.m. Sunday and said that he was concerned his girlfriend might attempt suicide, according to police.

In the decades since World War II ended, they’ve never once looked back on their service in the U.S. Marine Corps with bitterness. And now the men who broke the color barrier in the last branch of the military to admit blacks will soon be awarded one of the nation’s highest honors.

Fernando Alfonso and Rita Mateu sought out homeless people at Atlanta area shelters and offered them food or money in exchange for Medicare information. They hired a doctor for a clinic they ran in Woodstock, gaining access to the doctor’s medical billing numbers.

Look out, Tin Drum fans: Founder Steven Chan is planning to share a homegrown favorite restaurant with the rest of the world. After years of prodding, Chan is franchising the Pan Asian fast casual concept he started on Georgia Tech's campus in 2003. It's a big step because he's operated the business on very little debt, which he's achieved by slowing adding locations as his budget has allowed.

You could call him the General Assembly’s “Donnie Ballgame.” Whether it was the Falcons in the playoffs, the SEC championship, a key Georgia Tech matchup, an early-season Braves game or the NHL All-Star tilt, Sen. Don Balfour was there, thanks to friendly lobbyists with tickets.

There was only one suspect, according to the Atlanta homicide detective who investigated the 1989 murder of public relations executive Connie Vance Krause, found strangled to death in the trunk of her car at the Lindbergh MARTA station. For 18 months, police zeroed in on the woman’s husband, Hans-Juergen Krause, a former state employee who spent a considerable portion of the couple’s savings at local strip clubs.

Don’t expect a new football stadium for the Atlanta Falcons to easily pay for itself. Experts say unrealistic revenue projections and the skyrocketing construction cost of sports stadiums, especially football behemoths, is making it increasingly hard for the facilities to generate enough cash to keep pace with expenses, namely debt service.

Outrage over a botched raid built on lies from informants followed by cover-ups by cops who killed a frightened, innocent 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in her home — and then planted drugs in the house — led to the birth the Atlanta Citizen Review Board.

Negotiations on a new downtown stadium for the Atlanta Falcons continue behind closed doors. But one thing seems clear: Much of the cost will be passed along to fans, some of whom are already bracing for a hit. An examination by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of the three NFL stadiums built in the past five years shows that ticket prices jumped by an average of 26 percent in the season the stadiums opened, and that many fans paid thousands of dollars more in personal seat licenses merely for the right to buy tickets.

Retired Maj. Gen. James Livingston will be the featured speaker Monday at Smyrna’s Memorial Day ceremony at the 20th Century Veterans Memorial, 2800 King St. The native of towns in South Georgia is one of 81 living recipients of the Medal of Honor.