Crime & Public Safety

The Goliath roller coaster will remain closed as Six Flags Over Georgia reopens for the first time since Monday's deadly incident.

A third suspect has been arrested in Florida after a contractor with Norfolk Southern was shot and killed last month at the company’s facility in Austell, officials say.

Two Middle Georgia men were arrested in connection with a mass shooting in rural Vienna, bringing the number of arrested to three since two people were killed and 35 injured.

A man fatally shot his wife, two adult sons and a girlfriend of one of his sons in an apparent South Georgia murder-suicide, Douglas police say.

A Decatur lawyer charged with illegally soliciting clients using accident information stolen from DeKalb County police has been disbarred by the Georgia Supreme Court.

An Atlanta charter school educator died this week when he was ejected from a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, which officials said is scheduled to reopen Friday.

A sale of the Atlanta City Detention Center doubles down on a failed approach. It will cement the city’s complicity in Fulton County’s disastrous carceral system.

An inmate was killed after he was in the jail for roughly one day and had been granted bond, records show. GBI investigators said 5 inmates attacked him in one of the cells.

The death of a roller coaster rider at Six Flags Over Georgia remains under investigation.

Georgia legislators are considering improvements to post-conviction litigation as the state's top judges warn of poor representation provided to some indigent defendants.