Crime & Public Safety

HeeHaw, a petting zoo miniature donkey at Elsberry Riding and Farm in Rockmart, was shot by a Cedartown police officer who is now facing a federal lawsuit.

Two workers were killed Monday on I-95 in southeast Georgia in a crash involving an Amazon delivery truck, officials say.

A first-year Georgia Tech student who had been missing since Sunday has been found safe, school officials say.

Ze’kevious Perry was taken into custody in Alabama by the FBI. He’s the third suspect to be apprehended in the 2025 shooting in Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood.

Georgia is again at the center of an alleged scheme to exploit migrant labor.

Stacey Ian Humphreys’ attorneys argue the death row prisoner should not be executed because years of childhood physical and sexual abuse led to him killing two people in 2003.

A metro Atlanta attorney, saying she is embarrassed and apologetic, has resigned from the Georgia Public Defender Council after Georgia's top judges criticized her work.

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied granting clemency to Stacey Humphreys, who was sentenced to death in 2007 for the 2003 killings of two real estate agents.

A contractor with Norfolk Southern was shot and killed Monday evening at the company’s facility in Austell, officials say.

Of the 115,578 Flock searches audited, city leaders said 0.07%, roughly 79 searches, were “flagged for additional review.”