When she was younger, Nikki Byrne wanted to perform. “In middle school, I really wanted to be an actor, and auditioned for everything,” the Pace Academy alumni said, “and never got cast.” But that disappointment wouldn’t last for long. According to Byrne, Patrick Campbell – the director o...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A First Alert Weather Day is in effect for north Georgia today as scattered storms move through the region between lunch and 6 p.m., bringing the threat of heavy rain, lightning, street flooding and isolated damaging winds.The threat doesn’t stop there. Very ho...
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A woman was shot and killed inside a Gainesville convenience store late Thursday night, and the gunman is still at large on Friday morning, according to Hall County investigators.The shooting happened around 9:30 p.m. at Subhannallah Food Mart on Mountain V...
President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Wheeler High School in Cobb County next week to pitch his student investment program.
The Hall County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a suspect who shot and killed a woman late Thursday night. Deputies confirmed to Channel 2 Action News This Morning that a woman was shot and killed at a convenience store on Mountain View Road and Old Oakwood Road. Investigators believe the woman...
Kris Jenner announced the death of her mother, Mary Jo “MJ” Shannon. Shannon was 91 years old. Read more trending newsJenner shared on Instagram, “Today, we said goodbye to my beautiful Mommy MJ. There are no words that could ever capture what she has meant to me or the heartbreak of having to sa...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Commerce police officers shot a suspect accused of breaking into a home on Thursday night after he lunged at them, according to the police department. The suspect, who has not yet been identified, is out of surgery and in “critical but stable” condition, the de...
A long recovery begins after historic South Central Texas rains trigger widespread Texas Hill Country flooding, leaving two dead in Kerr and Uvalde counties.
Three police officers in a metro Atlanta city have been fired after they were accused of misusing the department’s license plate readers. The Fayetteville Police Department said flags were raised during an internal audit of the department’s Flock Safety cameras. The audit found that three officer...
Editor’s Note: The video in this story is from an earlier report. ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The Fayetteville Police Department has fired three of its officers after they allegedly misused the Flock camera system, the department announced on Friday. According to police, testing of a new ...
In June of 2020, HBO pulled the 1939 classic film “Gone With the Wind” from its streaming service. The decision came after John Ridley, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter behind “12 Years a Slave,” wrote an op-ed for the LA Times calling out the film’s racism and sanitization of the insti...
Air quality alerts can change quickly during wildfire smoke events. Here’s what Code Orange, Code Red, Code Purple and Code Maroon mean, and when you should limit time outside.
In waiting for Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey,” I’ve felt a lot of anticipation – as I’m sure many of us have – for certain set pieces. Whether it be Odysseus’s encounter with the man-eating cyclops Polyphemus, or with Charybdis and Scylla in the ocean, there’s a certain excitemen...
The Fayetteville Police Department has terminated three of its officers after an internal audit exposed unauthorized searches within a public safety tracking database.
The City of East Point has rescheduled a planned water outage for some residents.The water shutoff between Jefferson Ave and E Forrest Ave will now take Monday, July 20, through Tuesday, July 21. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]Scheduled work is set to connect existing l...
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they may have found the source of a Cyclospora that has sickened more than 1,600 people in five states. Read more trending news The agencies said they have linked the illnesses to shredded iceberg lettuce ser...
During Tuesday night’s meeting, Brookhaven City Councilwoman Jennifer Owens said she’s resigning for “purely family reasons.”[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]Since then, the City of Brookhaven council members have called for a special election to qualified voters. The ele...
Weekend time Friday, July 17 — Neighborhoods around Piedmont Park are raising security concerns about the 50,000 soccer fans expected for a FIFA World Cup watch party and concert for Sunday’s final between Spain and Argentina. The event, which includes a performance by Ludacris, is free but r...
When she was younger, Nikki Byrne wanted to perform. “In middle school, I really wanted to be an actor, and auditioned for everything,” the Pace Academy alumni said, “and never got cast.” But that disappointment wouldn’t last for long. According to Byrne, Patrick Campbell – the director o...
The Rockdale County Board of Education has named a sole finalist for the open superintendent role. Members selected Dr. Stephanie Johnson on Thursday following a comprehensive search process.Johnson currently serves as Deputy Superintendent and Chief Turnaround Officer for the Georgia Department ...
The Coca-Cola Company has temporarily halted U.S. manufacturing operations for its fairlife dairy brand after discovering a cyberattack on its networks. An unauthorized third party gained access to a portion of the company's systems during a recent ransomware event.
Fairlife, a dairy company owned by Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, was the target of a ransomware event on Thursday, the company announced.According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, The Coca-Cola Company identified unauthorized access to some of fairlife’s systems, including...
Texas is once again dealing with devastating flooding just over a year after floods killed two dozen campers and two counselors at Camp Mystic. Read more trending news Update 7:11 a.m., July 17: At least two people have been killed in flooding sweeping parts of Texas, CNN reported. Uvalde Police ...
A Florida murder suspect with close ties to North Georgia is on the run after human remains were discovered buried in a shallow grave, authorities said.
A targeted overnight shooting left a woman dead at a Hall County convenience store, and deputies are searching for the killer who ran from the scene.
An Amber Alert has been canceled for 13-year-old Layla Carter after she was reportedly found safe, according to the Appling County Sheriff's Office.
State agents are investigating after a Commerce police officer fired a weapon on Orchard Drive Thursday night.
Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of a blaze that displaced two families, including 11 children, in Henry County.The families said they are stuck in limbo as insurance waits for fire investigators to determine whether the fire started in the car, the house, or elsewhere. In th...
PONTIAC, Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) — A Michigan woman accused of abandoning her three children in an apartment without running water has pleaded no contest to three counts of first-degree child abuse.The Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office said Thursday that 35-year-old Kelli Bryant made the plea agr...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A driver accidentally slammed his car into the side of a DeKalb County grocery store on Thursday afternoon. The incident happened in the parking lot of the Lidl on Memorial Drive. The driver told Atlanta News First he was trying to let someone into a parking sp...
ST. LOUIS (First Alert 4/Gray News) - A man was charged Thursday after police in Missouri said he left a baby in the middle of a street and fled from law enforcement.St. Louis City prosecutors charged 36-year-old Christopher Pearson with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and resisti...
Two Commerce police officers shot a man accused of charging at them with a screwdriver. The shooting happened Thursday in the area of Orchard Drive off Maysville Road. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation responded to the shooting.Commerce Police Chief Jeff Drossman confirmed to Channel 2 Action N...
RUSKIN, Fla. (WWSB/Gray News) - Two Florida deputies were shot and flown to a hospital after a suspect ambushed them when they arrived to take him into custody Thursday.The suspect, identified as 34-year-old Chris Machowski, was also transported to Tampa General Hospital, where he was pronounced ...
During his address, Jackson emphasized that he is ready to help citizens across the state, promising to treat economic strain as a top priority if elected.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Donald Trump delivered a prime-time address Thursday, claiming China obtained voter information by accessing records in several states and attempted to influence public opinion against him, while outlining what he described as vulnerabilities in the American elect...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat and members of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office held a town hall at ENON Baptist Church to discuss the future of the Fulton County Jail and hear directly from community members.One of the main topics was a proposed change to ho...
Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat met face-to-face with community members Thursday evening to address the ongoing overcrowding crisis at the Fulton County Jail and outline what his administration is doing to resolve it.
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — President Donald Trump announced Thursday his administration is declassifying documents that indicate China compromised the voter lists and election data in 18 states, beginning with the 2020 election.Trump did not list the states whose election data he said ha...
Police are searching for a masked man who sliced through a chain on a heavy metal gate and drove off with a $100,000 SUV.
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson used his first rally since winning the GOP primary to call for party unity, outline key campaign promises and draw contrasts with Democratic opponent Keisha Lance Bottoms.Speaking Thursday in Cleveland, Jackson told...
President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation Thursday to once again raise doubts about the results of past elections, reviving a subject he’s long used to make unproven claims and deny his loss in the 2020 election.Trump’s speech presented allegations of interference and influenc...
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