1+ week, 2+ day ago   (913+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Help us grow our newsletter! Do you know a friend or neighbor who would enjoy our weekly newsletter on Norcross? Please have them subscribe here. 👮 Norcross celebrates milestone Friday, Sept. 4 — Hey, it’s Hayden with my…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (215+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta The Atlanta Police Department Homicide Unit is investigating two separate homicides that occurred in Buckhead and in Downtown Atlanta. Just after 1:30 a.m. this morning, Sept. 4, officers responded to a person shot at the Mezzo Apartments at…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (654+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Norcross leaders and officials from around Gwinnett County officially cut the ribbon on Sept. 1 at the new Norcross Public Safety Building on Buford Highway, celebrating the most expensive project in city history. The roughly $27 million…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (253+ words) The Sandy Springs Police Department on Aug. 31 announced the arrest of 17-year-old Christopher Castillo, charged with murder in the Aug. 28 fatal shooting of 25-year-old Williams Lopez Rodriguez. When officers entered the victim’s residence, the man was found with an apparent…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (568+ words) Growing public concern about license plate reader systems has led a key state senator to consider legislation to limit abuses by police. After nearly weekly news reports of law enforcement officers accused of misusing license plate reader data for personal…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (435+ words) The City of Norcross, the Southwest Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, and a group of active community members scheduled tours of the new public safety building in early September, before the Norcross Police Department and Municipal Court begin operations. The public…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (560+ words) Police at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport have ended a controversial drug interdiction program that involved stopping travelers on jet bridges, taking their tickets and searching their luggage, according to the organization that sued on behalf of two entertainers subjected to the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (210+ words) Atlanta Police Officer DeVante Matthews was shot on Monday morning while responding to a call concerning a mental health crisis. According to APD, officers responded to an armed individual experiencing a mental health crisis at 1421 Clark Howard LN SW around…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (213+ words) Jen Maguire, the co-owner of the Midtown lesbian bar My Sister’s Room (MSR), was arrested early Sunday morning after officers received a noise complaint. This behavior was in violation of City of Atlanta ordinance Sec. 74-131, according to the report, which…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (261+ words) DeKalb County Chief Executive Officer Lorraine Cochran-Johnson has named Melvin K. Carter as chief of DeKalb County Fire Rescue, promoting a 26-year department veteran and lifelong county resident to lead the agency. Carter has more than two decades of fire service…...