News - South Fulton

In a bid for more transparency around $2.9 million cash collected during arrests, the Atlanta City Council is considering an ordinance to transfer two bank accounts maintained and controlled by the police department to the city's finance department.

Atlanta police Friday were investigating a shooting inside a clothing store that left a man dead. The victim was discovered shortly after 2:30 a.m.

A major repaving project that began this week on the top-end Perimeter could cause big weekend backups on I-285.

Coretta Scott King Young Women's Leadership Academy is partnering with Georgia Tech to develop a "cell biology boot camp" for students and to give teachers the chance to conduct biomedical research alongside graduate students other and scientific researchers.

A church is helping students at Atlanta's Whitefoord Elementary purchase affordable school supplies.

Many metro Atlanta schools were named finalists for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Awards offered by the Technology Association of Georgia and the TAG Education Collaborative.

Atlanta Public Schools starts class Monday for schools on a traditional calendar schedule. Parents can find information about bus routes and registration on the district's website www.atlantapublicschools.us.

The dinner rush was just beginning at Candler Park's Fox Brothers BBQ Thursday evening when a strong thunderstorm slammed the area with high winds that toppled a huge white oak onto the popular DeKalb Avenue restaurant.

Powerful thunderstorms rolled through the metro Atlanta area Thursday evening, and eight people suffered minor injuries after a lightning strike in Fayette County.

Powerful thunderstorms rolled through the metro Atlanta area Thursday evening, bringing down trees and knocking out power for thousands as forecasters issued a flash flood warning for parts of Fulton and DeKalb counties.

Georgia's Department of Transportation has closed its review of four companies who claimed "disadvantaged" status that helped them win contracts to build restaurants at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

If you live or work on a street named after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., you could be on ground zero of a new national voter registration drive.

Several Atlanta Public Schools Friday will host open house events for parents, students and community members in advance of the first day of school on Monday.

When Charzie Kendricks stopped at 1328 Peachtree St. 10 years ago, he was a man without a family, a home or a history.

The public is invited speak out about the general budgets for the Georgia Department of Public Health.

For months, state officials and business leaders warned that a TSPLOST defeat would cost metro Atlanta precious jobs and prolong its economic funk.

If Monroe Drive was part of your afternoon drive, you needed an alternative route, thanks to a sinkhole on the busy Midtown street. One northbound lane of Monroe Drive, between 8th Street and Virginia Avenue, was expected to remain closed until late Wednesday as crews repaired the sinkhole, according to Atlanta's Department of Watershed Management.

South Fulton County's Wolf Creek Amphitheater will have its second event of the year on Saturday, the Summer Nights Jazz Festival with South African guitarist Jonathan Butler, Michael Franks, Rachelle Ferrell, Warren Hill, Maysa Leak and Jimmy B featuring Andre Grant.

Sheriff Ted Jackson wants to put dogs in the county jail, and Fulton commissioners have lent their support.

Atlanta officials are crafting an ordinance to strengthen the city's regulation of vehicle booting companies as a result of residents and visitors complaining of abuses.