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A Macon man is jailed for stealing from thousands of people at race tracks across the country, including Atlanta Motor Speedway. Police say even actor Patrick Dempsey is among the many victims, who range from race car drivers to pit crew members. Detectives said Steven Sanders was caught on a ...
You’ve been warned. The time for ignorance over the Ga. 400 shoulder lane is over. Sandy Springs police say they have started cracking down on those who illegally use the Ga. 400 shoulder lane. Last week the Georgia Department of Transportation opened up the emergency lane of Ga. 400 southbound ...
It turns out those chemicals that caused I-285 southbound to be shutdown for five hours near Washington Road were not hazardous after all. A tractor-trailer driver noticed he was leaking the chemicals as he was driving down the interstate Wednesday afternoon. By 5:30 p.m. I-285 southbound was locked down between ...
The unemployment numbers keep getting better for metro Atlanta. The State Labor Department says the area’s jobless rate dropped to 8.5 percent last month. That’s the lowest mark since December 2008 when the unemployment rate was 7.7 percent. Metro Atlanta’s jobless numbers fell from 8.7 percent in March and 9.3 ...
The FBI is looking for information on two fires at women's clinics this week that appear to have been intentionally set. FBI Special Agent Steve Emmett wouldn’t call the man in these pictures a suspect. But he did say agents want to question the man, who was photographed by bank ...
The northbound lanes of Ga. 400 in Sandy Springs reopened just before 5:30 a.m this morning after a driver was going the wrong way on Georgia 400 northbound when he crashed into a street cleaning vehicle. The crashed forced authorities to close down the interstate around 3 a.m. at Abernathy ...
A family of five small kids and three adults were saved by DeKalb County firefighters from a fire that had taken over the third flood of their of apartment complex. Firefighters could see the family waiving through heavy smoke from the balcony of their unit at the Kensington Manor Apartments ...
The voters of Douglasville will get to decide the issue of Sunday alcohol sales for themselves after all. The Douglasville city council voted unanimously Monday night to overturn Mayor Harvey Persons' veto that would have kept the issue off the ballot. City hall was packed Monday night as the council ...
WSB Meteorologist Kirk Mellish warned last week that we are now in random storm season. Strong storms are possible almost any day. We got an impressive show on Monday. The storms brought lots of lightning, rain, hail and high winds to metro Atlanta. Only one actual severe storm occurred, that ...
If Douglasville city council members stick with their original votes, voters will get to decide the Sunday alcohol sales issues for themselves. Mayor Harvey Persons needs to change one vote on the council for his veto of the referendum to stick. Last week, Persons shot down the measure that would ...