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Investigators tell FOX 5 just after 11 p.m. Wednesday the suspect busted into the Dahlia Avenue house. After entering through the window, police say the alleged home invader grabbed two kitchen knives. He then allegedly went into another room and tried to stab a resident who uses a wheelchair. Another resident opened fire on the suspect, shooting him in the stomach and arm. The suspect was found nearby by officers. Paramedics rushed the injured home invasion suspect to Grady Memorial Hospital. He underwent surgery and was in stable condition as of late Thursday morning. The homeowner told detectives he didn't...

Atlanta's wealthiest suburb is edging closer to separating itself from the city as it introduces a bill to Georgia's legislature that goes up for a vote next year. With rising crime rates in Atlanta, Bill White, the CEO of Buckhead City Committee (BCC), is pushing for the suburb where the average house price costs $1.4 million, to 'divorce' itself from Atlanta. 'We are living in a war zone in Buckhead,' White told Bloomberg Businessweek. 'Shootings and killings, it just never ends.'

The man accused of killing eight people in the Atlanta massage spa shooting spree pleaded not guilty Tuesday to four counts of murder, for which prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Robert Aaron Long, 22, has already pleaded guilty to killing four people at Young’s Asian Massage parlor in Cherokee County on March 16. He appeared Tuesday before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville in Atlanta for the charges related to four deaths in two other spas, according to ABC News. His lawyer, who waived arraignment, entered not guilty pleas to all charges, including murder, aggravated assault and domestic...

Zoo officials say they believe a vaccinated employees who cares for the gorillas passed on the virus while asymptomatic. The employee was wearing protective equipment such as a mask and gloves. The zoo says there is is no evidence that the gorillas can pass the virus back to humans and says visitors are too far away to be infected by gorillas. Zoo Atlanta says at least 13 western lowland gorillas have tested positive for COVID-19, including their oldest male gorilla in captivity - a 60-year-old named Ozzie Experts are now testing all 20 of Zoo Atlanta's gorillas, who live in...

The battle for election integrity in Georgia is moving full-speed ahead. A court hearing in Fulton County is set to begin Monday to determine whether attorneys can investigate mail-in ballots. According to Georgia state Sen. Burt Jones (R), taxpayers deserve to see if the 147,000 absentee ballots in the Peach State’s most populous county were counted dishonestly. “We’ve got to get people’s confidence back in the election process and the only way to do that is have a mass overhaul of how, particularly the 2020 election was was run,” he stated. “And it should be a partisan issue.”

State officials plan to allow a private company to set toll rates and keep the revenue from the proposed I-285 express lanes — a move that will affect hundreds of thousands of metro Atlanta commuters. The firm would invest in the design, construction and maintenance of the new lanes, currently set for construction beginning in 2023, then recover its investment by collecting toll revenue for 50 years. Many details — including which company will operate the lanes, how much it will invest and any limits on its tolling authority — have not been determined. Georgia transportation officials say private investment...

ATLANTA — Channel 2 Action News has learned that a man is dead and another was injured during a shooting at a busy Buckhead shopping center. The shooting happened around 4 p.m. at the Peachtree Battle Shopping Center in the 2300 block of Peachtree Road. Police said a man was coming out of one of the stores when he saw people breaking into his car. That’s when he confronted them and started shooting to defend himself. Investigators said another man ran from the scene and was shooting off rounds as he ran. They located that person a short distance later....

The Atlanta Jewish Times has removed an op-ed by a black conservative activist and former Georgia state legislator who has appeared at events also attended by controversial right-wing figures. The piece by Vernon Jones was titled “How one Jewish family shaped my views: Vernon Jones recalls the family that inspired him to speak up for Jewish Americans.” It was removed from the newspaper’s website on Wednesday night after a Jewish staffer for Stacey Abrams, the prominent voting rights activist in Georgia, called it “disgusting” on Twitter. “Literally during the Days of Awe, @AtlJewishTimes is platforming a far-right extremist who held...

One hundred years ago today, Leo M. Frank was lynched to an oak tree at Marietta — one of the most notorious mob murders in American history. Methodically extracted hours before from the Midgeville State Penitentiary by an Ocean’s Eleven-style team of coordinated professionals, Frank’s murder was as shocking in 1915 as it reads in retrospect. The well-heeled Jewish Yankee was factory superintendent at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta when a 13-year-old girl in his employ was discovered in the factory’s basement — throttled and apparently raped. That was in 1913; for the ensuing two years, the prosecution of...

A Georgia grand jury has indicted one man for murder and another on related charges in the shooting death of an 8-year-old Atlanta girl during a protest last year, according to prosecutors. Secoriea Turner was riding in a vehicle with her mother and a friend on July 4, 2020, when she was shot as demonstrations unfolded over the killing of a Black man by a White Atlanta police officer. The driver had sought to turn around near a Wendy's in south Atlanta where members of the Bloods gang had erected a barricade, Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis said...

An Atlanta elementary school principal segregated its students based on race and one mom isn’t having it. Kila Posey filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights after claiming Principal Sharyn Briscoe of Mary Lin Elementary School put a segregation policy in place. Apparently, she thought it was best for all students. Posey told local WSB-TV, “We’ve lost sleep trying to figure out why would a person do this.” She and her attorney, Sharese Shields, believe the segregation policy is a violation of federal law. Video below: Twitter LinkIt’s the latest in a long...

An Atlanta mom filed a federal complaint against her daughter’s Atlanta elementary school after she learned that the school was separating students on the basis of race. In the discrimination complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, parent Kila Posey claims the principal at Mary Lin Elementary School, a K-5 school in the Atlanta Public Schools system, put a segregation policy in place because she thought it was best for all students. Posey found out last year that the elementary school would be putting Black students in two different classrooms with two different teachers and...

An Atlanta police sergeant has been suspended without pay after a viral video showed him kick a woman in the head while she was handcuffed and on her stomach.

Disturbing video shows a 12-year-old boy with the word “gay” shaved into his hair being verbally and physically abused by three adults. The footage, posted to Instagram last month, shows a young boy, identified in reports only as Tyler, cowering on the porch of an Atlanta home as he’s berated by a man who makes reference to sexual orientation. “You still doing gay s–t,” he tells Tyler in the clip, which was posted by Gaye Magazine on June 17. “You think this on the side of your head for no reason?” The man then smacks Tyler while holding him by...

The police are investigating a shooting at an Atlanta gas station that left two people critically injured. Officers were called to the Chevron station at 2195 Piedmont Circle NE just after 8 p.m. Sunday evening. As soon as the police came some BLM agitators surrounds & taunts a white cop who was trying to respond to the shooting call. The reason is simple because the police officer was white he wasn’t allowed to help them. Below is the video of police officers who respond to a shooting in Atlanta, only to be shouted down and forced to leave because one...

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Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that typically begins with flu-like symptoms and swelling of the lymph nodes, progressing to a widespread rash on the face and body. Most infections last two to four weeks. Monkeypox is in the same family of viruses as smallpox but causes a milder infection. In this case, CDC laboratory testing showed the patient is infected with a strain of monkeypox most commonly seen in parts of West Africa, including Nigeria. Infections with this strain are fatal in about 1 in 100 people, according to a CDC statement. However, rates can be...

Cops have arrested the suspect accused of killing golf pro Gene Siller and two other men at Pinetree Country Club golf course in Georgia last weekend. Bryan Anthony Rhoden, 23, was arrested in Thursday in the city of Chamblee, more than 25 miles southeast of where the slain men were discovered Saturday, Cobb County Police Chief Tim Cox said during a news conference Thursday evening. Cobb County Police say golf pro Gene Siller, 46, was shot in the head by a gunman at Pinetree Country Club in suburban Atlanta on Saturday after 'witnessing an active crime' unfolding.

For Risaiah Osborne, a 20-something student who lives near where Mr. Brooks was killed, gunfire has been a weekly occurrence outside his home. “The more I think about this, I think we need to change American culture more than we need to change the cops,” he says. “If you think about sports, it feels like this country is a losing team right now. It’s not the players who need to be changed. It’s the culture and the values of the team.” “‘Defund the police’ was a slogan that really backfired ... because across the country – not only in Atlanta...

In a move that bites the hand that feeds it, Atlanta recommends moving to abolish the suburbs ahead of the Biden administration requiring the city to do so. Buckhead is not what is traditionally considered a suburb. Residents there provide about 20% of the city’s budget, and their children attend Atlanta Public Schools. However, it is an area of the city primarily made up of neighborhoods with single-family homes. Atlanta would like to change that. According to the Saporta Report, single-family zoning comprises 63% of Atlanta’s land area. In 2018, Mayor Bottoms said her vision was One Atlanta, a more...