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 Violent crimes per 1,000: 23.4 * Population: 102,357 * 2011 murders: 52 * Median income: $22,672 * Unemployment rate: 18.9%

Do you live in one of the country's most dangerous cities?

The FBI has crunched the numbers and has found out which US cities are the most dangerous. The crimes looked at - violent crimes, murder, population and income. Some of the cities, like Detroit, are expected to be high on the list, but there are others that are included, or ...

Deal calls Brooks indictment regrettable

Gov. Nathan Deal says he expects to receive a copy of the 30 count indictment against state Rep. Tyrone Brooks (D-Atlanta) early next week. Fourteen days after he receives it, Deal will create a three-member panel made up of Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens and a state House and Senate ...

Johns Creek man charged with faking his kidnapping

A Georgia Gwinnett College student couldn’t bear to tell his parents he was flunking English class — for the second time — so he faked his own kidnapping, according to Johns Creek police. Now Aftab Aslam, 19, has more to worry about than an ‘F’ in English class. On Thursday, ...

Two shot; no one's talking

APD detectives are not having an easy time connecting the gunfire in two separate shooting. The victims are refusing to cooperate and people living along Lakewood Ave. where a man was found shot in both his legs and along Phillips Dr where a man was found shot twice in the ...

Teens busted on shoplifting charges at Walmart

Two 19-year-olds have been arrested for shoplifting and underage possession of alcohol for stealing more than a dozen bags of margarita mix from the Walmart on Ashford-Dunwoody Road. Dunwoody Police Officer Tim Fecht tells WSB Quintravis Williams and Marcus Ballard had gone into the store on Monday to scout out ...

Jmaal Malik Keyes, 19, was reported missing nearly two weeks ago. He is a freshman at Middle Georgia State College.

Remains could solidify teen's guilt

A body has been found near the home of a murder suspect.  Now state investigators need to determine if the human remains are those of a missing Cobb County student. 19 year old Jmaal Keyes was a student at Middle Georgia State College when he vanished.  A long search turned ...

Police search for suspects in south Fulton burglaries

Fulton County Police are looking for two suspects who may be responsible for a string of burglaries in the south Fulton area. Detective Melissa Parker an officer pulled over a suspicious vehicle, blue Nissan, on Old Bill Cook Road around 4:20 Monday afternoon when the suspects fled to Flat Shoals ...

Rodney Pike, 38, died after being shot by Gwinnett County police officers Monday afternoon.

Man, 38, dead in officer-involved shooting

A 38-year-old man was shot and killed Monday afternoon after allegedly hitting one police officer with a SUV, Gwinnett County police said. Two police officers fired shots at the man, identified as Rodney Oneil Pike of Buford, before he could strike a second officer, Cpl. Jake Smith said. None of ...

Ancily Faye Green, 39, of Dallas, is accused of robbing a bank near Acworth, then leading police on a chase through Cobb County, police said.

Police identify woman charged in bank robbery, chase

One woman is in custody after a bank robbery at the Sun Trust branch on Mars Hill Road around 11 a.m. Monday. “The suspect showed a demand note and with that demand note there was the possibility that there were some explosives,” said Cobb Police officer Michael Bowman. Bowman said ...

Phony cop demanding money in Roswell

Someone is impersonating a Fulton Co. Sheriff's deputy in Roswell and using the telephone to demand money from his victims. The phony cop tells his victims, there's a warrant for their arrest for speeding through the GA 400 toll booth and the warrant will be voided if they pay the ...

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