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Alpharetta has responded to an appeal by the Islamic Center of North Fulton that seeks to overturn a District Court ruling that upheld the city's right to deny the mosque's expansion plans.

South Fulton County's Wolf Creek Amphitheater has at least three more events booked this year, including Saturday's Labor Day Music Festival.

Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire Monday at Tyler Perry Studios. The fire is the second blaze in recent months at the studios on Continental Colony Parkway in southeast Atlanta.

Sandy Springs will hold a public information meeting on proposed traffic and safety improvements to the Spalding Drive/Mt.

He used the Internet to lure his victims, according to police. Jalyn Connor, 17, of College Park, has been arrested and charged with rape, armed robbery and other crimes committed in the area of Riverdale Road in College Park, according to police.

Atlanta firefighters were on the scene of a fire late Monday morning at Tyler Perry Studios. The fire is the second blaze in recent months at the studios on Continental Colony Parkway in southeast Atlanta.

Roswell Rotary is hosting a free informational meeting on human trafficking from 6 to 8 p.m. at DoubleTree Hotel, 1075 Holcomb Bridge Road.

The Dunwoody Nature has received a $8,735 grant from REI to redevelop and its front meadow area along Roberts Drive.

Road maintenance in Gwinnett County will mean shoulder or median lane closures this week, weather permitting.

Two Gwinnett County neighborhoods will get new sewer lines under contracts approved by the Board of Commissioners last week.

An Austell man has been arrested and charged with unlawfully practicing medicine in South Carolina, according to a report in The State newspaper .

For Atlanta attorney Stanley Lefco, the decision to park in a spot marked for visitors at Varasano's Pizzeria the night before a 10k race cost him more than a tip.

Morris Brown College officials have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a last ditch effort to prevent the 131-year-old school from being foreclosed on and sold at auction, and to give them time to regroup.

It's clear from property tax bills hitting mailboxes that residents in some cities in DeKalb County are paying more for county services while their counterparts in the unincorporated areas are seeing the same rates as last year.

Tropical Storm Isaac could bring up to 8 inches of rainfall to metro Atlanta this week, along with strong winds and flooding, although a lot depends on the path the storm takes, meteorologists said.

Two pedestrians were killed early Saturday in northeast Atlanta while crossing Memorial Drive, police said.

A wrong-way crash late Friday night shut down Ga. 316 at Winder Highway in Gwinnett County, authorities reported.

The man who shot and killed a former Georgia State University soccer player early Sunday morning turned himself in Friday, an attorney said.

Amid a landscape dominated by a federal penitentiary, vacant industrial plants and check-cashing joints, the mural at the intersection of McDonough Boulevard and Sawtell Avenue in southeast Atlanta stands out.

Though their key witness was slain in an unrelated incident last week, Fulton County prosecutors won conviction of a man charged with firing the shots that killed a security guard outside a northwest Atlanta lounge last year.