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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A MARTA bus and a U.S. Postal Service vehicle collided in southeast Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon, injuring multiple passengers on the bus, according to fire officials.Atlanta Fire Rescue crews responded to the crash on the 1000 block of Bouldercrest Drive SE....
Several people were injured when a car and a MARTA bus crashed into one another on Wednesday afternoon.Atlanta fire officials were called to Bouldercrest Drive and found that several people on board the bus were injured.Channel 2’s Courtney Francisco is on the scene. Get all the latest details on...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United owner Arthur Blank praised Atlanta’s World Cup showing Wednesday as the city hosted its final match of the tournament: a semifinal between England and Argentina at Atlanta Stadium.Argentina came from behind late to defeat Engl...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Georgia Power reaffirms its pledge to keeping energy affordable for Georgians.The Consumer Protection Pledge outlines six key points:Protect your rates and keep energy affordableEnsure new large-energy users pay their wayInvest in a stronger, more reliable grid...
A metro Atlanta teen who is using sports to uplift and empower young people is being recognized on a national stage.[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]Rohan Anand, the founder of the nonprofit organization Rise N Reach, is receiving the Billie Jean King Youth Leadership Awa...
England fell to Argentina on Wednesday as Atlanta hosted its eighth and final 2026 FIFA World Cup match.Argentina now advances to face Spain in the World Cup final on Sunday. England will face France in the third-place match on Saturday.LIVE Team 2 Coverage of the excitement and fanfare around At...
ATLANTA (AP) — Argentina advances to World Cup final by beating England 2-1, will play Spain for the title on Sunday.THIS IS AN AP BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. ATLANTA (AP) — England and defending champion Argentina were even at 0-0 at halftime in the World Cup semifinals on Wednesday.There were limited...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Defending champion Argentina rallied to beat England 2-1 on Wednesday and reach the World Cup final.Trailing 1-0 going into the last five minutes of regulation time, Enzo Fernandez and substitute Lautaro Martinez scored for Argentina.Anthony Gordon had given En...
Live blog for the second FIFA World Cup 2026 semifinal between reigning champions Argentina and England on Wednesday at 3 p.m. ET at Atlanta Stadium in downtown Atlanta.
Winning at Harvard has now become a tradition for one metro Atlanta school.The Veritas Schools scored their latest win last week in a summer debate program -- their eighth win so far.“To be able to walk through and to feel just the sense of people and all the cheering, it was, like, I almost crie...
Centennial Olympic Park is currently serving as the central hub for Atlanta’s World Cup experience, packing in tens of thousands of soccer fans.
A metro Atlanta mother is in jail, accused of exposing her nonverbal son with autism to meth.Police rushed the child to the hospital when they found the drugs in the home, Channel 2 Gwinnett County Bureau Chief Matt Johnson reports. They said they are relieved he is going to be OK.Police say it w...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Argentina threw the kitchen sink at England as the clock ticked down in the World Cup semifinal, and La Albiceleste could not be denied forever. >> FULL WORLD CUP COVERAGETheir relentless attack finally broke through in the 85th minute, with Enzo Fernandez send...
Florida investigators identified a teenager from Decatur who vanished in 1983 and was found dead in the Florida Everglades.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Take a catchy TikTok sound, add the chillest animal on the internet, and you’ve got today’s breakout star: the capybara.Now zoos across the country are cashing in with capybara meet-and-greets. National Correspondent Debra Alfarone takes us to NOVA Wild, in Virginia.
A man who has been on the run since being convicted of killing a transgender woman in DeKalb County in 2024 has been arrested after police said he tried to skip out on a fare while trying to board a transit train in the San Francisco Bay Area. Davonte Fore, 27, a known gang member, was convicted ...
ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) — The Trump administration’s latest nominee to lead the nation’s top public health agency drew frustrated reactions from some U.S. senators on Wednesday when they pressed her on whether she would protect the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from political meddling.Dr. ...
Sparks flying at a Cobb County car dealership as a thief used a saw to buzz through a gate.Investigators say he stole a $100,000 Lexus SUV. The dealership told Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell that it wants police to question former employees because the person who stole the car ...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — After two yellow cards were handed out in the space of five minutes, referee Ismail Elfath handed out another yellow card to Argentina defender Cristian Romero. Romero wrapped England star Jude Bellingham as Bellingham made a drive down the field in the 51st mi...
A northwest Georgia man has been sentenced to years in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking a large amount of methamphetamine.[DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]The District Attorney’s Office for Polk and Haralson counties announced that Mitchell Ryan McChargue was s...
Members of Tucker City Council, in a split decision, voted to approve a 7 Brew drive-thru in downtown Tucker during a meeting on July 13. The 7 Brew, a drive-thru-only coffee shop, will be located at the site of the yellow house, the former location of the Shops at Tucker House gift shop, on t...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — England winger Anthony Gordon picked a perfect time to score his first World Cup goal. Gordon put a goal past Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez in the 55th minute off a Morgan Rogers pass. >> FULL WORLD CUP COVERAGEThe match had been a defensive affair pri...
More than four decades after a Decatur woman vanished, her family knows what happened to her.In May 1983, Sheila Ann Nichols disappeared. In September of the same year, a truck driver in Broward County, Florida found a skeleton in the Everglades on the side of Hwy. 27.It would take until 43 years...
The creative act of teaching Wednesday, July 15 — The common thread among this week’s Rough Draft Atlanta Sketchbook stories is the lasting shape that guiding someone else’s work leaves on your own, and the way taking on the charge to teach, support and mentor becomes part of one’s creative p...
OCALA, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) — A 20-year-old Florida man has been arrested on an arson charge after investigators say he set his grandfather’s home on fire. Officials said the fire destroyed a house the family had owned for more than 50 years.Joseph Jomall Antonio Hester, 20, who goes by “Jamal,”...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The World Cup semifinal between England and Argentina has been a chippy affair with 16 fouls between the two teams in the first 37 minutes, but it took that long for a yellow card to finally come out. England’s Elliot Anderson fouled Lionel Messi and received a...
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Senators questioned Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, during a confirmation hearing Wednesday, pressing him on his handling of the Epstein case and the independence of the intelligence community.Clayto...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Florida investigators have identified remains discovered in the Everglades 43 years ago as a teenager from Decatur. Shelia Ann Nichols disappeared from Georgia in 1983, and a truck driver found her skeleton off U.S. 27 in Broward County later that September, ac...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Gwinnett County leaders are warning of a nationwide wire fraud scam that has recently targeted residents.The scammers have impersonated local planning and zoning departments across the nation to ask zoning applicants to pay nonexistent fees, sending the request...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A 75-year-old woman was shot in East Point on Wednesday morning, according to police.Around 9:40 a.m., East Point police said they responded to a person shot in the area of Washington Road and Camp Creek Parkway, where a gas station and several other businesses...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The first half of the World Cup semifinal between Argentina and England set a record no one likely wanted to set. The defensive affair didn’t just go into halftime 0-0. It was the first World Cup match since recordkeeping began in 1966 to have no shots on goal ...
The Centurion Foundation announced Wednesday that it completed a $95 million acquisition of Northlake Mall to establish a major new medical campus for Emory Healthcare.
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Expect showers and thunderstorms to develop each afternoon starting today and continuing through the week. While these storms should be typical summer thunderstorms, they can still pack a punch with gusty winds, frequent lightning and locally heavy rainfall.Mos...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A person suffered “serious injuries” in a DeKalb County shooting on Wednesday afternoon, according to police. Officers were called to the incident on Blazing Pine Path, a residential area in unincorporated Decatur, at around 11:38 a.m. The victim, who was shot ...
The Greene County Board of Commissioners took its network offline after identifying a cybersecurity incident in Greensboro on July 9.
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The euthanasia of a drug-sniffing K-9 is raising questions about what happens inside the Clayton County Animal Control shelter, and whether staff followed the rules.Advocates said surveillance footage and a missing page from the shelter’s logs raise conc...
Antisemitism came home today. My son called to tell me he had quit his job, where he had worked for two years. I knew he wasn’t particularly happy, that they weren’t giving him the opportunities they’d promised, that the hours were long and the pay not great, but I asked anyway – Why did yo...
A 75-year-old woman was injured in a shooting Wednesday morning, according to East Point police. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]According to police, officers were called to the area of Washington Road and Camp Creek Parkway around 9:41 a.m. on July 15 regarding what was...
The Brookhaven Police Department arrested two people for operating an unlicensed massage business. Chunlei Wang, 65, and Yun Pan, 47, were arrested following an investigation at a massage business establishment at 2484 Briarcliff Road. On June 21, Brookhaven Police officers responded to the...
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