Flock, the company behind the AI-driven network of license plate-reading cameras, said it has updated its guardrails to ensure they’re used properly. Read more trending news Among the changes is the ability for communities to reduce the retention period for images captured by Flo...
ATLANTA, Ga. (ATL Live) - When Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores met at an event for their kids, they had no idea their friendship would evolve into a bestseller book. The two women first wrote Happy Wife in 2025. The novel received rave reviews and was featured on the Read wi...
Fox Theatre opens new Arcade Lounge Photo provided by the Fox Theatre. The Fox Theatre has opened its new Arcade Lounge, converting a previously semi-covered terrace into a climate-controlled, year-round space within the theatre’s Marquee Club. The lounge is the latest addition t...
Big enough to hold the feeling Wednesday, Aug. 12 — Some ideas don’t fit within the traditional frames. In his West End warehouse, sculptor Charlie “Blackcat” Smith has spent weeks working with more than 45 collaborators on a single structure: a 14- to 15-foot metal book in memor...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A neighbor’s Facebook post asking for help with a 98-year-old man’s overgrown lawn set off a chain of events that ended with a lawn company, a community, and Atlanta News First’s Surprise Squad all showing up to say thank you. After days of rai...
A New Mexico judge has ordered Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta to pay $567 million to confront the impact their platforms have had on young users....
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram will have to pay more than half a billion dollars in fines because a judge found it did not do enough to protect children’s mental health. Read more trending news The judge in New Mexico levied a penalty of $567 million against Meta in...
Critic's Notebook: An East Atlanta Village restaurant revival is underway ajc.com
The Decatur Book Festival is hosting a fundraiser on Aug. 13 to support the festival in October. Attendees will receive exclusive early access to the 2026 festival lineup and schedule, which includes more than 70 award-winning and celebrated authors from across the U.S., before t...
Furkids to celebrate opening of new dog shelter with community event Photo provided by Caren West PR. Furkids Animal Rescue & Shelters will celebrate the grand opening of its new Sutherlin Dog Shelter with a free community event Aug. 8 at the organization’s headquarters in Cummin...
(Gray News) - A drug-resistant “superbug” fungus is spreading in the U.S. as 26 states report cases. According to the latest tracking data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 3,000 cases of Candida auris, also known as C. auris, have been reported in th...
ATLANTA, Ga. (ATL Live) - Daily morning visits to the Chattahoochee River serve as the foundation for a new spiritual memoir and photography collection focused on personal and societal recovery. Dr. Reed V. Tuckson, Managing Director of Tuckson Health Connections, LLC, and Echo G...
At the Auburn Avenue Research Library, a new photography exhibit is telling the story of the life of Kathleen Cleaver. “The World(s) She Made: Composing the Radical Lives of Kathleen Neal Cleaver,” opened July 30 and runs through Jan. 4, 2027. It’s billed as the first public phot...
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POPLARVILLE, Miss. ( WLOX /Gray News) — A Mississippi man was convicted Thursday on one count of touching a child for lustful purposes and f…
Sirens rang out on Marietta St. in southwest Atlanta early Thursday morning. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] Sev…
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — It turns out, the key to your overall health, immune system, and even your mood might lie right in your …
WARNING: The following report contains details that some may find graphic or disturbing. A man found guilty of kidnapping, raping and killin…
A Loganville tax preparer faces a 54-count federal indictment after allegedly defrauding dozens of self-employed truck drivers out of estima…
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Gainesville man was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly broke into an apartment and assaulted a teen…
A new partnership in metro Atlanta is working to solve unsolved murders. The task force solved six so far this year, with about 20 left. Cha…
Isabelle Rose Johnson was captured Thursday in the Florida Panhandle following a nationwide manhunt connected to a death investigation.
LaGrange police arrested a man on Wednesday following an investigation into a series of business burglaries across the city.
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The MARTA Board of Directors has chosen the new leader of the transit agency. On Thursday, the board sel…
Residents in a northeast Atlanta neighborhood are raising alarms after a string of fires at homeless encampments have stirred memories of th…
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