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A U.S. senator representing Georgia is calling for a state moratorium on data center construction, starting with one of the largest in the nation in southeast Georgia’s Effingham County. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] This comes a day after Georgia Po...
Gwinnett County’s district attorney is suing the state of Georgia, arguing a new election law was written to target her and four other Black women district attorneys. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] Channel 2’s Gwinnett County bureau chief Matt Johnson...
MADISON COUNTY, Ala. ( WAFF /Gray News) - An 18-year-old has been charged with shooting and killing his grandfather. According to the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to a home on John Harold Drive following a report of a shooting Thursday afternoon. Upon arr...
A 51-year-old man faces multiple charges after allegedly driving around East Cobb early Sunday morning, pointing a handgun at random drivers during a series of road rage incidents, according to the Cobb County Police Department....
The Athens-Clarke County Police Department says it fired an employee after an internal investigation into improper use of the automated license plate reader system. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] The department announced Friday it started the investig...
A drug trafficking investigation led to the arrest of a 55-year-old man, according to police. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] DeKalb County police pulled a car over on Wednesday near Browns Mill Road and Klondike Road as part of an ongoing investigatio...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — An employee of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department (ACCPD) was fired for allegedly misusing the department’s Flock camera system by repeatedly looking up his ex-wife’s license plate. On Thursday, Athens police received a complaint from t...
An Athens-Clarke County Police Department employee was fired following allegations that he misused the department's license plate reader system to track his ex-wife, officials announced Friday....
Athens-Clarke County Police said there was major flooding in the area of Westlake Drive and Fortson Drive, and people were told to avoid the area. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued earlier for Clarke and Oconee counties that expired at 5:15 p.m. Stay weather aware if you a...
Two men face felony drug and weapons charges after a traffic stop led to the discovery of illegal drugs and firearms, according to the Athens-Clarke County Police Department....
Controversial former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is being held in federal immigration custody in Louisiana, Fox News has learned....
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Two men were arrested Wednesday in downtown Athens during a traffic stop, Athens-Clarke County police said. Police said Deontai Rouse and Malik Tucker, both 23, were arrested on East Dougherty Street after a traffic stop. Officers reportedly fo...
A Cobb County officer and a driver were both hospitalized Friday afternoon after a three-car crash in East Cobb that involved a police vehicle. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] Channel 2’s Michele Newell reports the crash happened at Old Canton Road and...
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. ( WEEK /Gray News) - A family of eight has been injured after an explosion destroyed their home, but loved ones say they are expected to survive the scary situation. Danvers firefighters said the reported explosion occurred just before midnight on Wednesday at a...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Cobb County police officer and another driver were injured in a vehicle crash Friday afternoon. A marked patrol car was involved in the crash at Old Canton Road and Robinson Road in East Cobb just before 2:10 p.m., according to the Cobb Count...
A crash involving a marked police car sent an officer and another driver to the hospital Friday afternoon, shutting down the intersection of Old Canton Road and Robinson Road while investigators process the scene....
A witness testified that a police officer threatened to send her and other teens to jail the night he allegedly sexually assaulted her friend. Richard Gooddine is on trial for a second time after his first ended with a mistrial. The two victims say the former East Point officer u...
WESTLAKE, Ohio ( WOIO /Gray News) – An Ohio nursing home employee was arrested for stealing money from an 86-year-old resident. According to a release from Westlake Police, at around 10 a.m. on July 28, a Bay Village woman called to report fraud and theft involving her blind and ...
A search of a Union City home uncovered a methamphetamine laboratory and more than 240 pounds of crystal and liquid methamphetamine, federal officials said. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] Two undocumented immigrants from Mexico, David Miranda Gomez, 3...
NORTHWOOD, Ohio ( WTVG /Gray News) – An Ohio woman driving a shuttle bus carrying 26 Bowling Green State University students is facing an operating a vehicle under the influence charge after troopers say her bus was hit from behind by another vehicle on Interstate 75. The crash h...
WASHINGTON (Gray News) - A 17-year-old is accused of fatally shooting an eighth grader filming a TikTok video, authorities said. The teen, who was 15-year-old at the time of the shooting, was arrested and charged Wednesday with second-degree murder while armed, Metropolitan Polic...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A diesel spill on Friday in DeKalb County has closed a road, though fire officials said the majority of the fuel remained contained within the tanker and the soil around the overturned truck. A fuel tanker carrying roughly 7,500 gallons of dies...
A student brought a knife onto a school campus in Cherokee County, according to school officials. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] The incident occurred at River Ridge High School, where administrators said they were made aware of the situation after sc...
CLEVELAND, Ohio ( WOIO /Gray News) - A man in Ohio died after trying to perform a stunt on his motorcycle, according to police. Cleveland Police reported the man hit a utility pole near the intersection of Pearl Road and Cypress Avenue Wednesday afternoon. According to very preli...
Parkview High School went into a soft lockdown Friday, but no credible threat was found, police said. Gwinnett County Police said investigators believe a hoax phone call. caused the lockdown. Officers have cleared the campus. There is no known threat to students, faculty, staff o...
(Gray News) - An airport worker in Canada died after he was hit by an airplane on the tarmac. The accident happened Monday night at the Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. According to CTV News , the worker, identified as 39-year-old Oscar Robayo, was hit by an...
[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] A Coweta County jury has convicted a man accused of walking into a plant manager’s office at a Newnan manufacturing facility and shooting him three times in an attempted killing . Prosecutors said Sylvester Florence Jr.,...
A new invasive pest has been spotted for the first time in Georgia. Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler J. Harper confirmed that a pasture mealybug was discovered at a turfgrass business in Decatur County. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] A pasture m...
A new invasive pest has been spotted for the first time in Georgia. Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler J. Harper confirmed that a pasture mealybug was discovered at a turfgrass business in Decatur County. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] A pasture m...
A student was injured after a Chromebook caught fire inside a classroom at a Georgia elementary school. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] In a message sent to parents, Berta Weathersbee Elementary School Principal Lonnie Thornton said the incident happen...
Editor’s Note: The video in this story is from an earlier report. ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Police have determined there is “no evidence” a University of Georgia student was raped in downtown Athens last week — but two men are still facing charges related to the inciden...
The Athens-Clarke County Police Department said Friday there is no evidence to support that a rape occurred to a Georgia student in the downtown area following a thorough investigation. The student said she was out with friends Aug. 20 when she lost consciousness. She woke up in ...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Gainesville man has been charged with 132 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, according to the Hall County Sheriff’s Office. Richard Garcia-Hernandez, 45, was already in jail after he was arrested in July for allegedly sexually abusing ...
Athens-Clarke County police say they have found no evidence that a rape occurred in a downtown Athens case that initially began as a possible sexual assault investigation....
Hall County Sheriff's Office patrol deputy has been placed on paid administrative leave following his arrest on a misdemeanor charge.
For the first time in Georgia, parents in crisis will have a way to safely and anonymously surrender a newborn. Georgia’s first Safe Haven Baby Box opens Friday at a Henry County fire station located at 30 Fairview Road in Ellenwood. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as ...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of 20,134 baby toy sets over choking hazards. Read more trending news The Chillife 5-in-1 Montessori Baby Toy Sets include a pull-string teething toy with silicone strings that are smaller and longer than allowed. They c...
The Smyrna Police Department and state law enforcement officers arrested 11 people and issued dozens of citations during a traffic safety checkpoint along Windy Hill Road. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] The operation took place Wednesday night into ea...
Georgia is adopting a federal emergency fuel waiver designed to increase gasoline supplies and potentially lower prices at the pump.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced the recall of 114,660 child car seats. Read more trending news The agency said the handle could detach, causing the child to fall. The recall affects the following Britax car seats: B-Safe Gen 2 B-Safe Gen 2 Flexfit B-S...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A person was sent to the hospital after a car smashed into a utility pole in Atlanta’s Grove Park neighborhood on Friday morning. The accident happened on Chappell Road near Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway, sending the pole leaning over into wires...
Georgia will execute Stacey Ian Humphreys on Sept. 16 after postponing a prior execution scheduled for late last year. Humphreys was convicted of murder and other crimes in the 2003 deaths of Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown in Cobb County. Georgia Department of Corrections Commissi...
When Jason Hunyar began looking into Flock cameras, he wasn’t focused on crime statistics or technology policy. He was thinking about his infant son. “My son isn’t even three months old, and he’s been tracked since before he was born,” Hunyar said. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app...
FLORENCE COUNTY, S.C. ( WMBF /Gray News) - Several former QVC employees were arrested in South Carolina. Investigators with the Florence County Sheriff’s Office said they worked with global security operations at QVC to arrest five former employees who are charged with breach of ...
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio ( WOIO /Gray News) - Police in Ohio released body camera video showing the arrest of the San Francisco 49ers owner during a prostitution sting over the weekend. John “Jed” York was arrested Sunday in East Palestine after he allegedly responded to an ad posted...
More than 2,000 residents have signed a petition seeking to dissolve the City of Mableton over concerns regarding the cost of establishing a new city public safety division. The opposition stems from potential tax increases to fund services that are currently provided by Cobb Cou...
A 7-year-old west Georgia boy is in a medically induced coma with major injuries after being hit by a car last week. Aiden was catching the school bus on Friday morning when he was hit by a Ford F-150, his family says. Rome police say a Floyd County police officer was driving on ...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A standing-room-only town hall meeting was held at Milford Recreation Center in Cobb County Thursday as dozens of eager and passionate residents gathered to hear from the Cobb County Police Department about its use of Flock cameras. Some reside...
The Americas will have the best seat in the house as 96% of the moon’s surface is masked by a near-total lunar eclipse tonight. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] This happens when the Earth moves directly between the sun and the moon and casts a shadow o...
MADISON, Wis. ( WMTV /Gray News) - A student and football player died after a farming accident Thursday morning, according to school and law enforcement officials. According to the Richland County Sheriff’s Office, deputies received a 911 call just after 7 a.m. about a farming ac...
Cobb County police held a town hall Thursday night to address growing public concerns over Flock license-plate reader cameras.
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Rome police are investigating after a child was badly injured by a truck while he was reportedly trying to catch a school bus last Friday. The 7-year-old was airlifted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Scottish Rite Hospital, where he is in...
Tony Romo, who was arrested on suspicion of OWI in Milwaukee back on July 23, faces three new citations related to the traffic stop and arrest.
Chief Bess Simpson-Baugh was sworn in Thursday morning as the new chief of police for the Henry County Police Department.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ( WAVE /Gray News) - Weeks after nearly 250 neglected dogs were rescued from a wooded 5-acre property, charges were filed against the owners. Kentucky State Police charged Michael and Natasha York with second-degree animal cruelty and failing to vaccinate the anim...
A mother says her son went out with friends then returned home, where someone shot and killed him as he sat in his car in his driveway. Now Michelle Williams is asking for the public’s help finding her son’s killer. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] Will...
A massive fire swept through a home in Paulding County early Wednesday morning, killing a man. Neighbors called 911 around 6 a.m. to report flames and smoke on Compound Road near Rockmart. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] “My daughter in law got up to g...
GREEN BAY, Wis. ( WBAY /Gray News) - Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs has been formally charged with two misdemeanors stemming from an arrest earlier this year. Jacobs was taken into custody in May on suspicion of domestic abuse, but at the time, the Brown County distri...
The FBI Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Department are asking for the public’s help to locate a man wanted in a mass shooting that left one person dead and 10 others injured in 2025....
Workers in an IRS building in DeKalb County say management is now blaming them for the rodent problem. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes say there is an active Occupational Safety and Health Administration complaint on the bu...
