The city of Atlanta passed new legislation Monday to expand who can use paid leave for family, and what qualifies for it. Atlanta City Councilmember Matt Westmoreland praised the unanimous vote to upgrade city policy benefits. “Those first weeks and months with a new child are irreplaceable. Pare...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - One week after a city audit revealed more than $236 million in unpaid water bills, the Atlanta Department of Watershed Management (DWM) has failed to provide documentation backing up its claim the debt is actually $50 million lower. The audit, ...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Norcross man will spend the rest of his life in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. Jurors found Alejandro Rangel, 59, guilty of aggravated child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and five counts of child molestation for sexu...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A former Georgia Department of Corrections officer convicted of smuggling methamphetamine into a state prison is facing new drug and gun charges, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Mark Edward Jeffery, 41, was stationed at Hays State Prison...
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Actor Hayden Panettiere died from an accidental overdose of several drugs, including fentanyl, and had been in rehab just weeks before, according to a coroner’s report obtained by The Associated Press. Panettiere, 36, was found unresponsive in an apartment...
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A Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office corporal is on administrative leave and under internal investigation after the solicitor general’s office said he created a Facebook page that targeted a woman he arrested. Natasha Lopez told Channel 2’s Ashlyn Webb that harassing posts against ...
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JENNINGS, Mo. ( KMOV /Gray News) - A Missouri family is pleading for answers after a minor traffic crash over the weekend escalated into a violent attack. St. Louis County Police said they responded to the reported crash Saturday evening at an intersection in Jennings. Investigat...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A man fell to his death while running from police at a West Midtown apartment building Tuesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said. They said the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office was executing a search warrant at the Westbound at the ...
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New details have been released about the death investigation that prompted a large law enforcement response Tuesday morning at an apartment complex along Chattahoochee Avenue in northwest Atlanta. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, 32-year-old Genesis Denton of Chi...
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A 70-year-old woman died on Tuesday morning after being hit by a car on Shorter Avenue in Rome, and police are now asking for help finding her next of kin....
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Plenty of people toss technology away or trade it in when they upgrade, whether it’s a laptop, a phone or even a desktop computer. A new metro Atlanta organization is giving your retired technology new life and giving it away, for free, to non-profits in need. Channel 2’s Sophia ...
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(Gray News) — Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against major GLP-1 makers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk with patients accusing the popular weight-loss drugs of causing permanent eye damage and vision loss. According to USA Today , multiple lawsuits filed within the last year foc...
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Pirelli, a global leader in tire manufacturing, will create 1,000 new jobs as part of a sweeping, multi-year, $1.2 billion expansion of its existing facility in Rome. The Georgia governor’s office said the announcement represents one of the largest economic development investment...
