Metro Atlanta News

Atlanta jurors reach $164M verdict in federal sex trafficking trial

The former owner of a Super 8 hotel near Atlanta's airport must pay $164 million to a young woman who says she was sex trafficked there as a minor, a federal jury decided.

Authorities investigating death of Ole Miss student from Atlanta

A 20-year-old Atlantan was one of two University of Mississippi students whose recent deaths are under investigation.

UPDATE

Police find dismembered body at Smyrna apartments; teen charged

Police swarmed a Smyrna apartment complex hours after officials said they discovered a woman’s dismembered body and arrested an 18-year-old.

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New medical doctors receive their degrees from Morehouse School of Medicine in May. Unfortunately, a 2025 JAMA Internal Medicine study revealed Black physicians die at more than twice the rate of white doctors. (Ben Gray for the AJC)
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Atlanta City Council, Fulton County discuss pending sale of detention center

‘We warehouse people’: Fulton sheriff makes case for buying Atlanta facility

Ethics trial Shermela Williams

Embattled ex-judge escapes punishment after resigning

Atlanta City Council will hold meeting on protecting city’s tree canopy
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