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Six children were removed from a home near Norcross that Gwinnett County police say was unsanitary, and both parents are charged. Officers went to a house on Sweet Pine Drive on Sept. 1 after a caller reported the conditions inside. Carlos Calixto Crispin and Wicapi Rose Eder eac...
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This year’s college football season began with the usual lopsided season openers, a hotly disputed Hail Mary, and new this year, political ads that aren’t about candidates, but the sport itself. An ad televised during a number of games over the weekend features one of the few peo...
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The National Transportation Safety Board provided an update on the deadly Amazon cargo jet crash that killed five people.
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A 7-year-old Henry County boy has beaten two rare forms of cancer following years of intensive treatments and a life-saving bone marrow transplant from his father....
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A Gwinnett County man has been in a coma for nearly a week after police say a driver ran out of patience behind slow traffic, swung into the oncoming lane and hit him as he turned. The man was riding a scooter home from work just before 6 p.m. on Sept. 1 when the crash happened a...
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DELHI TOWNSHIP, Ohio ( WXIX /Gray News) - An Ohio woman is accused of threatening to “shoot up” a Delhi Township daycare, according to newly filed court records. Jydan Rankin, 29, is held at the Hamilton County Justice Center on misdemeanor charges of inducing panic and aggravate...
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A 24-year-old man faces multiple charges after investigators linked him to a series of taxi robberies at a local apartment complex.
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A cancer survivor is leveraging her strength training background to support children and families navigating pediatric cancer treatments.
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A wide fundraising gap is reshaping Georgia’s race for governor, with Republican Rick Jackson using his financial advantage to run television ads while Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms focuses on direct outreach and digital organizing. Bottoms spe...
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A Brookhaven family is raising new concerns about Flock cameras after a student was pulled over twice in her new car. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] Georgia has more of the license plate readers per capita than any other state, according to the crowds...
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia is challenging the state’s restrictions on what members of the media can see and hear during executions, just days before Georgia is scheduled to execute a condemned inmate. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news br...
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A MARTA bus crashed along a Dunwoody intersection Monday, leaving three people reporting injuries.
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IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. ( WBTV /Gray News) — Hundreds of people in North Carolina may have been exposed to rabies after interacting with goats at a mobile petting zoo. The North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health said three baby goats at the petting zoo tested positive for r...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Dragon Con officially ended Monday evening in downtown Atlanta, concluding nearly five days of panels, cosplay, and games. In some respects, it was a record-setting year, but not in the way some people might have expected. “We actually put the ...
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Dragon Con brought 75,000 pop culture fans to downtown Atlanta for its 40th anniversary celebration over Labor Day weekend.
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Charges filed against “Fast and Furious” actor Tyrese Gibson have been dismissed nearly a year after his neighbor’s dog was mauled and killed. Last September, Atlanta police say Gibson’s large dogs were roaming freely in his Buckhead community. His neighbor says he came outside t...
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MOBILE, Ala. ( WALA /Gray News) - A Homeland Security Investigations special agent was arrested on multiple charges, including rape and sexual abuse. The Spanish Fort Police Department in Alabama said that Kent Blacklidge turned himself in to the Baldwin County Jail on Sept. 5. H...
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24-year-old Moses Russ died last Tuesday while on his way to realizing a life goal: becoming an Atlanta police officer.
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A University of Georgia running back has spent the last several months recovering at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta . In July, Dante Dowdell, 21, was injured in an ATV accident near his home in Mississippi and indefinitely sidelined. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as ...
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A man has been arrested in connection to a string of taxi robberies, police say. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] The Gainesville Police Department arrested 24-year-old Dwayne Bailey, charging him with two counts of robbery and two counts of theft of se...
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Travel restrictions have been placed on U.S. government employees in the Mexican border city of Nogales, Sonora, according to officials.
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Former Greene County Board of Education Director of Exceptional Student Education Kimberley Simmons and her husband face criminal charges after authorities connected them to the theft of roughly $50,000 in school grant funds....
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A verbal dispute turned violent late Sunday night on Piedmont Avenue, leaving a man hospitalized with a gunshot wound to his groin, according to Atlanta police....
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Even though he was nearly 2,000 miles from where he’d grown up, Ryan Hopkins felt right at home as a quarterback prospect visiting Wisconsin. “I felt the energy from the city,” said Hopkins, a former three-star recruit from Mater Dei in Santa Ana, California. “I felt the energy f...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A plan to transform one of Atlanta’s most recognizable skyscrapers has been canceled. In 2024, Georgia-Pacific announced a project to turn its tower on Peachtree Street in downtown into a mixed-use development with apartments. PREVIOUS COVERAGE...
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Community members plan to gather outside the Polk County Courthouse at 8 a.m. Friday to call for accountability and transparency after the police shooting of a family’s miniature donkey. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] Demonstrators say they want local...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Jesús Luzardo struck out 12 and tossed two-hit ball in his first career shutout in 150 starts and Kyle Schwarber hit a solo homer in the eighth inning to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 1-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Monday. The Phi...
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. ( KMOV /Gray News) - A disagreement between a woman and individuals associated with a Jimmy John’s near the Saint Louis University Campus ended with a 14-year-old girl getting shot in the leg, police said. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police, just before...
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Federal investigators examining why an Amazon cargo jet barreled off a runway at Miami International Airport and into vehicles, killing at least five people, are likely to focus on a crucial moment in the landing: whether the plane touched down too late to stop safely. [DOWNLOAD:...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Police said a woman died after being hit by a car in northwest Atlanta on Sunday night. Shortly after 10:40 p.m., officers responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle on the 600 block of Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard NW, according to...
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BENTON COUNTY, Ark. ( KY3 /Gray News) - A woman has died after she was hit by a boat while swimming in an Arkansas lake on Friday. According to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, the tragedy happened north of War Eagle Marina in the White River arm of Beaver Lake. Officials s...
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A new Starbucks with a drive-thru is planned for College Park after the Clayton County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the project. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] The Starbucks is planned for 1697 Norman Drive, near the intersection of W. ...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Big crowds came out Monday to take part in Atlanta’s Big Peach Sizzler races, a Labor Day tradition for 16 years. Organizers said around 2,000 people signed up to run the race through Buckhead. The annual 10K and 5K races typically raise more t...
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Left to right: Jessica Flournoy, executive director of Just Care, a subsidiary of Flournoy Health Systems; Evalena Flournoy, executive director of the Flournoy Cares Foundation; and Faris Flournoy. The Flournoy Cares Foundation provides scholarships to students pursuing careers i...
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Two people were arrested for boating under the influence after separate incidents on Lake Lanier over the Labor Day weekend, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks ] On Sunday, Sept. 6, Georgia DNR Game ...
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GREENVILLE, S.C. ( WHNS /Gray News) — More than 80 people were arrested Friday night following a street takeover in South Carolina. Deputies with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office said the street takeover took place at the intersection of Locust Hill Road and Fairview Road a...
