Atlanta Local News

Fire officials say a fire that began at a Family Dollar store quickly spread to a Piggly Wiggly grocery store Wednesday morning.

Police in Spalding County say they were called to a woman's home to investigate a possible suicide, but instead found the woman had been killed.

The last-place Pittsburgh Pirates beat the slumping Atlanta Braves for the second straight day, winning 5-0 on Tuesday night.

A Cobb County police officer was taken to an area hospital Tuesday after his cruiser struck a tree and then a townhouse, a spokesman for Cobb police confirms.

Police checking on the welfare of a woman found her body inside a Gwinnett County home on Tuesday.

No need for a rewrite - or a reweave - of the new rug in the Oval Office. President Barack Obama's spokesman said Tuesday the White House was correct to attribute a famous quotation in the rug's pattern to Martin Luther King Jr., even though the civil rights leader acknowledged being inspired by a 19th-century abolitionist, Thomas Parker.

DeKalb County police say an employee was shot and killed outside Pin Ups on East Ponce De Leon Ave.

DeKalb County commissioners are scrambling to decide what to do with $36 million worth of cheap financing, now that the plan to redevelop the old General Motors plant in Doraville has been scrapped. The funding would come from the federal Recovery Zone Act.

Police believe they have one of two men in custody who robbed a metro Atlanta jewelry store of a Rolex watch valued at nearly $30,000, police say.

Rob Hunter, commissioner of Atlanta's embattled Department of Watershed Management, is stepping down from the position effective Friday.

Federal prosecutors said a former Army soldier told authorities he planned to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton after he was arrested in a hostage standoff at a Georgia military hospital.

Haskell Co.’s bought Atlanta-based engineering firm E"m to better market itself to food, beverage and consumer product manufacturers.

Police are trying to figure out who sprayed racial slurs in the parking lot of a Hall County building that includes offices for the Internal Revenue Service