4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (287+ words) Milton City Hall is located at 2006 Heritage Walk. MILTON, Ga. — In a Wednesday meeting, the Milton City Council will consider amending its fiscal year 2026 budget and adopting its fiscal year 2027 budget. If approved, amendments to the current year’s budget will…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (747+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Saturday, Sept. 5 —The price of diesel reached an all-time high on Friday, with prices in Atlanta hitting $5.62 a gallon, just shy of the state average at $5.64 a gallon. The national average is $5.85 per gallon. 🌤️ Light…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (331+ words) The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is sending a lawsuit over Georgia’s 2021 political maps back to a lower court, ordering it to reexamine an earlier ruling that concluded the state’s maps were racially discriminatory. The decision comes a few months after…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (298+ words) Several Jewish households in metro Atlanta have received unsolicited letters claiming that their families may be eligible for Holocaust reparations, which Jewish groups have strongly condemned. Sally Levine, executive director of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, and Stacy Hydrick,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (682+ words) Starting next summer, Georgia’s highest court will no longer routinely hear appeals in murder cases. Under Georgia law, the state’s high court has jurisdiction over all capital cases — that is, cases where the death penalty has been imposed. But the…...

1+ mon, 21+ hour ago   (115+ words) FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Deputies investigated a reported theft of smartglasses Aug. 3. The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were dispatched to a Parks Road home to meet with a 25-year-old Dawsonville man. The man said his Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, valued…...

1+ mon, 19+ hour ago   (27+ words) The son of actor-director Rob Reiner pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder with special circumstances. He is accused of fatally stabbing his parents in December....

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (21+ words) Ronald H. Williams Sr. is suspected of killing the five members of his family before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (373+ words) ATLANTA (WJBF) — Georgia law enforcement agencies are intensifying their efforts to dismantle criminal street gangs, with state officials saying the focus is on taking down entire organizations rather than making isolated arrests. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI),…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (19+ words) One dead and seven injured after a 13-year-old drove a stolen Kia Optima into a Toyota Matrix, police say....