Victory Sandwich Bar in Decatur will become American-Italian restaurant and bar Besto at the end of July. The Decatur location of the sandwich shop and cocktail bar opened on Church Street in 2013 and is known for $6 sandwiches like the Han Cholo and Weed Eater, sides of cold ramen and flavor...
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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...
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 ...
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...
Surveillance video shows the moments when a man broke into a Cobb County car dealership and stole a $100,000 car. The dealership is now offering a $5,000 reward for information that may lead to an arrest. The video you need to see and why they think it may have been an inside job, LIVE on Channel...
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.
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.
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...
(InvestigateTV) — As demand for remote work grows, the Better Business Bureau says employment scams are growing with it — and some can be difficult to spot.BBB spokesperson Josh Planos said scammers are increasingly targeting people who are actively looking for work.“A huge percentage of scam-rel...
Smoke from hundreds of miles away will blanket parts of the U.S. already dealing with sweltering heat. Read more trending news The smoke is from wildfires in Minnesota and Ontario, Canada, The Washington Post reported.The haze is expected to cause unhealthy air quality for parts of the Midwest, N...
The Brookhaven City Council celebrated a milestone and mourned another on July 14 as the city approved a financial agreement with Emory University to fund the vast majority of the construction of the Peachtree Creek Greenway Connector Bridge, and learned that District 2 Council Member Jen Owens i...
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 ...
Victory Sandwich Bar in Decatur will become American-Italian restaurant and bar Besto at the end of July. The Decatur location of the sandwich shop and cocktail bar opened on Church Street in 2013 and is known for $6 sandwiches like the Han Cholo and Weed Eater, sides of cold ramen and flavor...
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) — Three people are dead and two children remain hospitalized after exposure to carbon monoxide in a vehicle in Ohio, officials said.Toledo police said officers received a call Wednesday at about 11 a.m. reporting unconscious people in a vehicle on the side of a roadw...
For the past month, soccer fans from around the world have flocked to Atlanta and filled our city with excitement, energy, and hope. We have welcomed people with open arms, and together we showed them what our city is capable of. Since Atlanta was announced as a host city, our city’s official...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The World Cup matches in Atlanta will conclude Wednesday with the semifinal between England and Argentina. Thousands of fans are expected at Atlanta Stadium in Downtown Atlanta and at the nearby FIFA Fan Festival.What to know if you goIf you’re going to the mat...
Editor’s note: The video above is from previous coverage.ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — The grandmother of a 2-year-old boy who drowned at a Roswell apartment complex last month has been charged in his death, according to arrest warrants.Emelisa Paz-Santos was booked Wednesday in the Fulton ...
ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Life University in Marietta is facing a federal lawsuit for allegedly discriminating against former Black employees.In a complaint filed last month, the three Black plaintiffs allege that they were “treated in a rude and uncaring manner, forced to do work that ...
A decade-long marriage between country singer RaeLynn and husband Joshua Davis has come to an end.Read more trending news “The Voice” contestant filed in Nashville last month, citing irreconcilable differences, People magazine reported. She posted to Instagram this week about the end of the relat...
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG/Gray News) - The body of an 18-year-old was pulled from a Toledo-area pond over the weekend in an apparent drowning. The coroner’s office identified the man as Anson Crandall. Toledo police said the situation started last Saturday when officers were called to the pond for a mis...
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An investigation is underway after a person was seriously injured in a shooting in DeKalb County. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks]According to DeKalb County police, officers responded to the 3400 block of Blazing Pine Path around 11:38 a.m. to a report of a person shot. ...
Janice McNair, the co-founder of the Houston Texans and senior chair of the NFL franchise, died on Tuesday, the team announced. She was 89.Read more trending newsIn a social media post, the Texans said McNair passed away at the age of 89, surrounded by her family.McNair became the Texans’ princip...
Dublin, Ga. – The Georgia Trust for Local News announced Wednesday it has purchased The Macon Telegraph and The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, moving two of the state’s oldest newspapers out of corporate hands and into local, nonprofit ownership. The sale by McClatchy Media is the first change of o...
When you’ve gotta go, you’ve gotta go and on paper, the city of Atlanta has hundreds of options.But when it comes to actually getting into a public bathroom for some relief, a recent study by Georgia State University shows that less than half of Atlanta’s public bathrooms are actually usable.Stud...
A student who broke the record for the highest GPA is now inspiring a change at a Florida high school. Read more trending news Vaibhav Bhaskar graduated from Steinbrenner High School near Tampa with an 11.99 weighted GPA, much higher than the standard 4.0 GPA of years past, The Tampa Bay Times re...
BRUCETON MILLS, W.Va. (WDTV/Gray News) — A woman is accused of abusing an 8-year-old girl and not seeking medical treatment for the child after she ingested bleach at a West Virginia campground.The girl remains in critical condition at a local hospital.Court documents show that the 8-year-old gir...
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