Crime & Public Safety

A Florida sheriff arrested a woman accused of participating in a scam network through Georgia prisons and called for officials to put a stop to the scammers.

Three adults are facing felony child cruelty charges after an investigation revealed 15 children living with them in a two-bedroom apartment in Marietta, police said.

Legal motions to prevent the transfer have started rolling in, with attorneys expecting to file dozens more in the coming weeks.

The teenager who was arrested after a dismembered body was found this week in Smyrna is now charged with murder amid new discoveries in the case, police say.

A teenager was fatally shot Friday evening in an “isolated incident” in southeast Atlanta, police say.

No one has been charged in the killing of a woman whose dismembered body was found in Smyrna, police said, though a teen arrested is considered a “person of interest."

An 18-year-old was arrested Tuesday, accused in a shooting that left two boys dead and two women injured in DeKalb County days earlier, police say.

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.

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

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