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Scammers target elderly after storms in DeKalb Co.
Another round of bad weather, complete with downed trees and limbs, leads to a new warning in DeKalb County about scammers targeting the elderly. Police say it has happened at least three times in the last three weeks -- a person knocks on the door, says he's with a tree-removal ...
Record-setting rain soaks Atlanta
Those famous April showers bled over into May, this weekend. And at a record pace. Almost three inches of rain fell Saturday, causing some power outages and a flood watch, which remains in effect. It was the largest rain total ever for Atlanta on May fourth. Late Saturday night, Georgia ...
APS cheating defendants head to court; Buckhead carjackings continue
The Atlanta Public Schools defendants will have a day in court, as they enter their pleas at the Fulton County Courthouse today. After their lawyers met in court Thursday, all the educators and administrators, accused of changing test scores on the CRCT, will be arraigned. The main focus is on ...
Possible hate crime in Cobb Co.; Tainted equipment found at Atlanta hospital
Police are investigating a possible hate crime in Cobb County. A black family living off Farm Place Court in Woodstock says someone burned a cross in their front yard. Two brothers, including one of the men's pregnant girlfriend and their kids, all live in the house. They say they also ...
Furloughs start at Hartsfield-Jackson
Air passengers leaving Hartsfield-Jackson Airport could be delayed up to three hours because furloughs that kicked in for air traffic controllers on Sunday. More than 15,000 air traffic controllers are among the employees of the Federal Aviation Administration that must reduce their work hours. The FAA had to cut more ...
Boston locked down during bomber search; Death count mounting in Texas
Boston residents were told to stay inside, this morning, with the doors locked while police searched for the second of two suspects in this week's Boston Marathon bombings. The first suspect died during a chase with police overnight. Late Thursday night, police chased the men from the M.I.T. campus, where ...
Massive blast flattens a Texas town; Obama in Boston today for bombing victims
The search through the rubble continues, in a small town south of Dallas, Texas, after a massive overnight explosion at a fertilizer plant. It all started after a huge fire at the plant in the town of West, 20 miles from Waco. The blast could be felt from 45 miles ...
Man falls, dies at Hartsfield-Jackson
The man that fell from one level to another at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport died from his injuries. Atlanta Police say a traveler at the airport alerted an officer about a person unconscious on the train level of Concourse E around 9:00 Saturday night. The officer found the man lying ...
Armed gunman shuts down I-575 in Cherokee Co.
A wild standoff in Cherokee County ends with a suspect turning the gun on himself on a major interstate. Police tell Channel 2's Amanda Cook the man pulled over on the side of Interstate 575 near Sixes Road, around 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning, walked across two lanes of traffic and ...
No basketball? No problem. Sunday full of action
Atlanta continues to hop, Sunday, even with no basketball to satisfy the fix for the estimated 100,000 fans in town for the men's NCAA Basketball Tournament. After Saturday night's action, and ahead of Monday night's championship game, all of those visitors will be looking for activities around the city. Some ...
Former Fulton County official gets additional funds for race case
An ex-Fulton County official is awarded $1.2 million after he sues the county for being snubbed from a job because of race. Former Human Services Deputy Director Doug Carl says he lost out on the job, in 2007, because he was a white male. A black female employee wound ...
MARTA auditor in trouble
A man hired to overhaul MARTA's finances is now wanted for embezzling money from his old position. Robin Howard was hired by MARTA as the assistant manager for audit a year ago. Howard is accused of embezzling about $50,000 from the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Institute for Internal Auditors, ...
DeKalb School Board ditches "balanced" schedule
Parents in DeKalb County spoke...and the school board listened. Now the so-called "balanced" schedule has been placed on the shelf. The schedule takes time away from summer break in order to give more vacation in the fall and spring. A recent survey of DeKalb parents showed plenty hated that plan. ...
Dog saves Stone Mountain family after lightning strikes home
A home in Stone Mountain suffers damage after a lightning strike in Saturday night's storms. But it could have been much worse if not for the family pet. The home on Hardwood Court was struck late in the night, but after several hours, the homeowner figured everything was fine. She ...
Missing woman, 2 kids found unharmed in south Atlanta
The search continues for the suspects responsible for a weekend carjacking that led to an overnight Amber Alert for a woman and her two children, ages 7 and 10, in south Atlanta. Atlanta Police say Derah Jenkins and her two children went missing for about 13 hours, but were found ...
Michael Vick returns to town
Michael Vick has been back in Atlanta several times since leaving the city as an athlete. But he's never made an appearance quite like Saturday's in Stone Mountain. The former Atlanta Falcon, whose arrest on dog fighting charges made national headlines, was in town Saturday promoting his new autobiography. He ...
Two dead in shooting in Marietta
Two people are dead in Marietta after what police are calling a murder-suicide. Neighbors say they heard gunshots just before 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning on Gateview Way, near Scufflegrit Road. When police arrived, they found Kay Cornell Janus, 72 of Marietta, dead in the garage of her home. The body ...
Snow! (Just not much of it)
Parts of north metro Atlanta and north Georgia remain under a winter weather advisory throughout the day Saturday after parts of the area got a dusting of snow overnight and early this morning exactly as forecast. Temperatures are expected to remain about 17 degrees colder than the average for the ...
APD officer shot in the face while on duty
An Atlanta police officer remains in the hospital after being shot in the face Friday evening in southwest Atlanta. Investigators say Officer Reggie Robinson, 35, was questioning a man on Victoria Place near Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard about reports of a drug deal when the suspect ran away. The man ...
Man burns to death in his wheelchair in SW Atlanta
A man is dead after being found engulfed in flames in his motorized wheelchair in southwest Atlanta . And investigators say they don't suspect foul play. The incident happened Saturday afternoon in southwest Atlanta. Witnesses say they saw the smoke and heard cries for help from the man in a ...
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