News for Metro Atlanta and Region

ABC’s ‘20/20’ to spotlight killing of Georgia teen tied to ex-Doraville officer
The new two-hour episode includes interviews with Susana Morales’ family and Gwinnett police investigators.

Father charged in son’s Buckhead death released from jail months after shooting
A man charged with killing his son outside a Buckhead apartment complex was released from Fulton County Jail on bond with strict conditions.

Severe weather moves out of metro Atlanta as rain chances return for weekend
There’s a chance for rain in metro Atlanta this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
He hoped to hand England Piano to his son. Now it’s going out of business.
David England hoped his son would take over his Doraville piano store. Instead, he's liquidating England Piano after 52 years.
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First Liberty founder pleads guilty in $140M fraud case
First Liberty founder Brant Frost IV pleaded guilty in federal court in Newnan to wire fraud tied to a $140 million Ponzi scheme that rocked Georgia GOP circles.

Georgia Power strikes deal that could slightly lower customers’ bills
The deal reached by Georgia Power would resolve two major cases the PSC has heard in recent weeks.

She waited years for justice in her son’s death. A guilty but mentally ill plea came.
Just before jury selection, Jalen Ivan Brown pleaded guilty but mentally ill in Zachary Foster’s deadly shooting at the Covington General Mills plant where he worked.
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Raffensperger campaign says threatening ‘manifesto’ received before Macon scare
Bomb disposal crews found a suspicious object but no hazardous device as the Republican candidate for governor campaigns in the final days before the primary.

Tiffany Haddish says DUI charges should be dropped over case delay
Comedian and actor Tiffany Haddish is accusing a Fayette County judge of needlessly delaying the criminal case stemming from her 2022 arrest in Peachtree City.
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How Kandi Burruss captures her divorce pain in an intimate one-woman show
Former "Real Housewives of Atlanta" star and singer-songwriter Kandi Burruss mined her divorce from Todd Tucker to create the one-woman show "I Do. I Did. I'm Done."
Atlanta mayor signs new contract with firefighter union after 1-year delay
The local fire union said its leaders were blindsided when they discovered Mayor Andre Dickens never signed an agreement they had been operating under for months.
From skid pad to train car: How the public safety training center is used
Department leaders gave the first in-depth look at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center since it opened more than a year ago in southern DeKalb County.
Andrew Morse to step down, Paul Curran named AJC president and publisher
Cox Enterprises names Paul Curran president and publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to sustain its journalism and continue digital transformation.

Can’t get World Cup tickets? An immersive alternative is coming to Atlanta.
Cosm, a 70,000-square-foot dome that uses the same technology as planetariums, announced it will showcase World Cup matches at its forthcoming Centennial Yards location.
Top elections lawyer starts new firm in calm before storm
Bryan Tyson, a top elections lawyer for the state and other clients, has left Clark Hill to form his own litigation boutique with trial specialist David Younker.

Questions dog the $4B Forge Atlanta project. Neighbors wonder what’s next.
Forge Atlanta Asset Management and its parent company, Webstar Technology Group, contend their development plans are feasible. But neighbors have doubts.

Beauchamp Carr, who helped save Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, dies at 82
Beauchamp Carr, who joined a successful grassroots effort to save the historic Fox Theatre from demolition, died of natural causes.

A surprise trip to a small European country yields new lessons about traffic
Atlanta traffic could benefit from Slovenia’s commitment to multiple modes of travel, and to keeping its pathways clean and maintained.

I-285 to remain open this weekend after construction closure plans halted
The GDOT’s plans to close part of I-285 in Atlanta were canceled after weather forecasts raised concerns the work couldn’t be finished before Monday morning.



