Atlanta: A gas leak closed Memorial Drive near Wilbur Avenue in Reynoldstown Thursday morning; Atlanta Fire Rescue asked the public to avoid the area while crews worked to repair it ◆ Crisp County: A driver was hospitalized after a northbound vehicle struck a Georgia DOT truck on I-75 at mile marker 104; the sheriff's office is investigating ◆ Paulding County: Chloe Day, 9, reported missing Wednesday night near Old Cartersville Road, was found safe Thursday morning; the circumstances behind her recovery are unknown, Atlanta News First reported. ◆ Atlanta: A pedestrian was struck and killed on I-75/85 northbound at the North Avenue exit just before 5 a.m. Thursday; all northbound lanes of the Downtown Connector reopened at 8:38 a.m. ◆ Sylvania: a Screven County High School student was taken into custody Wednesday after an alleged social media threat; dispatchers alerted police about 3:18 p.m. and authorities said no active threat remained ◆ Augusta: two students at Monte Sano Elementary School were heard talking about a weapon during a class transition Wednesday; Principal Jasmine Scott wrote to families the same day ◆ Twiggs County: a 6-year-old spotted a house fire on Sgoda Road and alerted his mother, who uses a wheelchair; all three people inside got out uninjured. ◆ Floyd County: Drake Ladon Keef, 32, is charged with hit and run in the accident that killed pedestrian Stevie Marie Thompson, 35, near Chulio Road; he is charged, not convicted. ◆ DeKalb County: one person was hospitalized with serious injuries after a shooting at a home on Hidden Creek Drive; police were called at about 9:45 a.m. and have not announced an arrest. ◆ Richmond County: Marcellus Ponder, 35, of Augusta was killed at 1:39 a.m. in a single-vehicle accident on the I-20 westbound Exit 196 ramp to I-520; he was pronounced dead at 2:46 a.m. and the westbound lanes reopened around 5:15 a.m. ◆ Worth County: two people were killed where State Route 32 meets State Route 300, and GDOT says it will put a temporary R-CUT at the junction this year ahead of a roundabout ◆ Fulton County: fire gutted the vacant Dairy Queen at North Avenue and Parkway Drive in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward; no injuries, cause under investigation ◆ Fulton County: a second man is charged in the July 2025 Sweet Auburn mass shooting on Edgewood Avenue in Atlanta — FBI Atlanta says its Violent Crime Task Force arrested Nasir Williams on a murder count and ten counts of aggravated assault; Santos J. Wyatt, 27, was killed and ten people wounded, and a third person is still being sought. Charged, not convicted. ◆ Taylor County: two former Reynolds police officers are charged over an Aug. 22 domestic dispute on Armory Street — Landon E. Aldridge, 23, with hindering a 911 call and Christopher K. Boyt, 36, with violation of oath of office; both had already left the department and both investigations remain active ◆ Richmond County Hephzibah Middle School was briefly evacuated Tuesday after a threatening call to the front office; students and staff were moved to Hephzibah Comprehensive High School, officers swept the building and an all-clear followed. No one was hurt, and no one has been identified, detained or charged. ◆ Liberty County An accident closed Highway 144 both ways between I-95 and Sunbury Road near Fort Stewart from 1:10 p.m.; GDOT's record no longer listed the closure at 6:05 p.m. and no agency has announced a reopening ◆ Dougherty County Terrance Davis, 28, is in custody in Texas awaiting extradition over the Feb. 2 East Broad Avenue accident in Albany that killed Dyllin Fallin, 31; the district attorney confirmed the arrest Tuesday ◆ DeKalb County Chamblee Dunwoody Road has reopened both ways between Redfield Drive and Oakpointe Place in Dunwoody after crews repaired a gas leak; police said so around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday ◆ Barrow County A dump truck hit a utility pole and went into the Super H gas station at 752 Christmas Avenue in Bethlehem on Tuesday morning; a store clerk was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, the driver had minor scratches, and investigators pointed to an apparent mechanical failure ◆ Grady County Cairo High School says the lockdown notifications sent to families and the community on Tuesday were a false alarm and that there is no threat to the school; it has not said what caused them ◆ South Fulton The South Fulton Police Department is asking for help finding Gibril Kanu, 37, who investigators say is autistic and has bipolar disorder, last seen Monday morning at River Oak Terrace; anyone with information is asked to call 470-809-7300 ◆ Effingham County The Effingham County Sheriff's Office is asking for help finding Gabriale Foskey, 17, last seen at her home on Sir Stephen Court in Guyton on July 25; the agency says she may be in the Savannah area and asks anyone with information to call 912-754-3449 ◆ Chatham County Savannah police shut down Waters Avenue between 56th Street and Delesseps Avenue Tuesday morning for a suspicious package investigation; no reopening time was given ◆ Douglas County The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is asking for help finding Zariyah Miller, 15, last seen leaving her home on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026; the agency has classified her as a runaway and asks anyone with information to contact Inv. J. Jenkins at 678-486-1215 ◆ Cherokee County The driver of a minivan died after hitting the back of a Woodstock Elementary school bus stopped at a red light at Highway 92 and Main Street in Woodstock on Tuesday morning; he was 79 and from Marietta, two students were treated for minor injuries and all 20 students and the bus driver are safe ◆ Cherokee County The Frank C. Mills III Justice Center in Canton is closed until further notice after an Aug. 21 hazmat incident; a judicial emergency runs through Aug. 28, court deadlines are tolled and courts are sitting at 94 North Street and the Historic Courthouse. ◆ Bryan County: Richmond Hill has a boil water advisory in effect for Plantation Apartments buildings A through G after a leak repair dropped water pressure; it lifts when city testing clears ◆ Troup County: a student was stabbed with scissors during a fight at Gardner Newman Middle School in LaGrange on Monday afternoon; a 13-year-old faces charges of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and disrupting a public school ◆ Chatham County: storms cut power to about 1,800 Georgia Power customers in Savannah Monday afternoon; 1,500 were back on within four hours and about 300 remained out, with a snapped pole off Middleground Road ◆ Bryan County: Georgia State Patrol says eight children reported injuries and four were taken to Memorial Children's Hospital of Savannah after a Silverado hit the rear of a school bus on Highway 144 at Cherry Street in Richmond Hill; the driver of a Mercedes SUV was charged with improper lane change ◆ Gwinnett County: a tractor-trailer fire closed all I-85 northbound lanes at the SR 211 exit near mile marker 124 from 1:21 p.m. ET; Gwinnett County police said one lane reopened about 3:30 p.m., and the right lane was still blocked as of GDOT’s 5:57 p.m. update. ◆ Coweta County: all clear given after the bomb threat at Georgia Power's Plant Yates on Dyer Road; Highway 16 was shut at Dyer Road, sheriff's investigation ongoing ◆ Towns County Sheriff Kenneth Henderson resigned Monday and took a negotiated plea over a confrontation with a Hiawassee officer; 10 years probation under the First Offender Act, a $1,000 fine and no running for office while on probation. ◆ Cherokee County Jackie Ingram has been arrested on a charge of arson in the first degree in the Bells Ferry Road house fire that killed a dog early Monday; investigators say the cause is still being worked. ◆ Lithonia A house fire destroyed a home at 7327 Union Grove Road in DeKalb County early Monday; one adult displaced, no injuries, and the road closed to traffic as of 7:25 a.m. ◆ Fulton County An accident blocked I-20 eastbound at Fulton Industrial Boulevard early Monday with stop-and-go traffic back to Thornton Road; all eastbound lanes have reopened ◆ Chatham County The Bull Street ramp to River Street and portions of East Upper Factors Walk are closed in downtown Savannah for Thomas Gamble Building renovation work; the city put the reopening at Friday, Aug. 28 ◆ Fulton County Richard Gooddine, a former East Point police sergeant, is due back in a Fulton County courtroom at 9 a.m. Monday for a retrial on 10 counts a 2022 jury deadlocked on; that jury acquitted him on seven others and he has maintained his innocence, WSB-TV reported ◆ Fulton County Katrice Simmons, 59, missing since May 19 after moving from Florida to an apartment off Lanier Street NW, has been found, her daughter told FOX 5 Atlanta on Monday; Atlanta police had not responded to the station by 1:15 p.m. and her condition has not been stated ◆ Candler Road one person was shot on the 2500 block near the Motel 6 in unincorporated Decatur about 5 a.m. Sunday and taken to a hospital; DeKalb County police say the person who fired left before officers arrived and no description has been released ◆ Atlanta BeltLine a person stabbed near the Kroger at 725 Ponce de Leon Avenue NE died at a hospital Sunday afternoon; one possible suspect was detained and no charge has been announced ◆ Downtown Connector a man on foot was struck by several vehicles and killed on I-75/85 northbound near University Avenue NW early Sunday; all northbound lanes were closed about three and a half hours ◆ I-75 Atlanta the woman killed in the hit-and-run near Cleveland Avenue SW has been identified as Jaquelin Telesforo Vazquez, 23; the Volkswagen's driver left the scene on foot and is not in custody ◆ Clayton County schools hold a remote learning day Monday, Aug. 24 — all Pre-K–12 students learn from home, staff report as normal, classes resume Tuesday ◆ Henry County Eagle’s Landing Country Club still partly dark Sunday night; Georgia Power says a truck hit a transformer, about 490 of roughly 900 customers were still out, and restoration for all is estimated at noon Monday ◆ Marietta Paul Mackay, 76, who has dementia and went missing from a Roswell Road apartment, found safe about 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Cobb County police say ◆ Augusta: Richmond County deputies are searching for James Atkinson, 47, wanted in connection with an aggravated assault and an aggravated battery reported Saturday on the 500 block of Boy Scout Road; deputies say he may be carrying a machete ◆ Cordele: A 2-month-old boy died Friday evening after being brought to Crisp Regional Hospital; Cordele police and the GBI are investigating and the body was sent to the state crime lab in Macon for an autopsy, with no cause of death determined ◆ Atlanta: A 35-year-old man was shot during an argument at Tokyo Valentino on Cheshire Bridge Road about 6:10 a.m. Saturday; a security guard shot the suspect, and James Jenkins, 23, has been charged with aggravated assault ◆ Savannah: A man was fatally shot Friday night inside a home on Benton Boulevard; Victor Bernardo Salazar, 18, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault ◆ Crisp County: One man was killed about 5:30 a.m. Saturday in a two-vehicle accident on I-75 near mile marker 94 in Cordele; the sheriff's office is investigating ◆ Macon: Clint Parrish, 30, was struck and killed on Forsyth Road in north Macon early Saturday; the Bibb County Sheriff's Office says the driver left without reporting it ◆ Cobb County: Casey Price, 26, of Cartersville was killed about 3:23 a.m. Saturday when his car struck a parked tractor-trailer on I-75 northbound at the I-575 split ◆ Atlanta: A 54-year-old man was killed about 2:35 a.m. Saturday on I-20 eastbound near Martin Luther King Jr. Drive; officers believe a tire may have blown out ◆ Atlanta: Michaela Kemp, 26, was killed about 2:25 a.m. Saturday on I-85 southbound near GA 400 during a roadside fight; the medical examiner released her name that afternoon ◆ Gordon County: USGS recorded a magnitude 2.4 earthquake about 4:54 a.m. Saturday near Resaca and Calhoun, at a depth of about 5.8 miles, with no felt reports ◆ Richmond Hill: Richmond Hill police say Eli Longobardi, 15, the teenager last seen leaving a Richmond Heights bus stop Thursday afternoon, has been located safely ◆ Port Wentworth: Police are asking for help finding Kellyeah Claxton, 15, last seen at her home on Cold Creek Pass in a gray dress; officials believe she may be in east Savannah ◆ Thomaston: A 1977 Piper Lance came down on its belly at the Thomaston-Upson County Airport near Rocky Bottom Road about 2:30 p.m. Friday, ran off the end of the runway and struck an antenna; both people aboard were uninjured and the airport was shut down until further notice ◆ Augusta: Ronald Wynn II, 21, was killed and a woman was hospitalized in a shooting on the 3800 block of Old Waynesboro Road; the coroner said Wynn was pronounced dead at Wellstar MCG at 4:33 p.m. and an autopsy has been scheduled, and no suspect has been identified ◆ Savannah: The GBI has arrested and charged four former Savannah Police Department employees over use of the Flock Safety license plate reader system; all four were booked into the Chatham County Jail and the investigation is active and ongoing ◆ Canton: A ruptured line in the main air conditioning system at the Cherokee County Justice Center on North Street coated all three floors with a hazardous film Friday afternoon; the building was evacuated, hazmat crews stopped the leak and officials said no injuries were reported ◆ Twiggs County: A severe thunderstorm dropped trees across Highway 96 between Highway 80 and Watson Drive in Jeffersonville on Friday afternoon, trapping three school buses; no one was injured and Highway 96 was passable again about 4:23 p.m., the sheriff's office said ◆ Marietta: Hazmat teams stabilized a chemical reaction at a business at 2242 Northwest Pkwy. in Cobb County on Friday morning; three people inside were evaluated by medical crews and released, the Marietta Fire Department said ◆ Atlanta: Antavious Kimber, on APD's Top 10 Most Wanted list in connection with a Dec. 10, 2025 southwest Atlanta homicide, has been arrested, the FBI's Violent Crime Task Force and APD's Fugitive Unit announced Friday ◆ Canton: the mother of a 2-year-old boy who died after being found unresponsive on Cartersville Street is charged with murder in the second degree, Canton police announced Friday ◆ Northwest Atlanta: a cat, several chickens and several ducks were rescued from a house fire in the 600 block of North Avenue NW near Georgia Tech Friday morning; a second cat is unaccounted for and the cause is still under investigation ◆ Atkinson County: the GBI says preliminary information indicates Kendall Alfonzo Stevens, 37, an inmate serving life without parole at Telfair State Prison, made the Aug. 21 bomb threat that closed every Atkinson County school; no charge has been announced and the Alapaha District Attorney’s Office will review the case file ◆ Burke County: the sheriff's office confirmed Friday that a Thursday night accident on Highway 23 between Saxon Road and Spring Branch Church Road was deadly; the road reopened at 12:20 a.m. Friday, and the number of people killed and the cause have not been released ◆ Ringgold flash flooding floods Caffeine Addicts on Nashville Street, damages Battlefield Parkway and Hwy 41 businesses; homes hit near Creekside Park ◆ Atlanta: a car sped through the Morehouse College campus, hit a light pole and overturned about 12:25 a.m. Friday on the 800 block of Westview Drive SW, narrowly missing two Spelman College students; the driver has not been identified and no citation or charge has been announced ◆ Atlanta: a man, 33, found shot dead behind the wheel of a gray SUV at the Villages at Castleberry Hill on McDaniel Street near Northside Drive around 1:30 a.m. Friday; police say he was killed in an attempted robbery, possibly two suspects, no arrests, not yet identified ◆ DeKalb County: GSP charges 18-year-old Jakori Cope with violating the Move Over law and following too closely after an accident in an active work zone on I-20 eastbound near Panola Road in Lithonia; a Greene County deputy and a 42-year-old man were hospitalized, and all eastbound lanes reopened just after 6 a.m. ◆ Clayton County: Delta Flight 1518 to Raleigh RETURNED to Hartsfield-Jackson on Thursday night after right engine trouble; the Boeing 737-900 took off at 7:42 p.m., landed back at 8:10 p.m. and nobody was reported hurt ◆ Chatham County: Georgia Southern LIFTED the Armstrong campus shelter-in-place in Savannah at about 7:50 p.m. Thursday, saying no known imminent threat remains after an armed robbery reported near Mercy Boulevard and Abercorn Street ◆ Laurens County: Dublin boil water advisory LIFTED as of 5:36 p.m. Thursday after testing cleared the water system; normal use may resume, with higher chlorine possible during flushing; West Laurens Middle School returns to its regular schedule Friday ◆ Chatham County: police are searching for Ronald Sapp Jr., 52, last seen July 30 in the woods off Bradley Boulevard and Ogeechee Road; police said he has medical concerns and believe he does not have his prescribed medication, and appealed to the public for help on Thursday ◆ Cobb County: I-20 westbound REOPENED in Austell just before 8 p.m. Thursday, about three hours after an accident between Riverside Parkway and Thornton Road that seriously injured at least one person ◆ Cherokee County: a stabbing in the parking lot of the Chick-fil-A on Highway 92 near I-75 in Acworth sent a mother to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital on Thursday afternoon; her daughter was stopped in Whitfield County about an hour and 15 minutes later, two children in the car were not hurt, and the restaurant is temporarily closed ◆ Dodge County: a tractor-combine, a box truck and a log truck collided on U.S. Highway 280 near State Route 87 around 12:45 p.m. Thursday, closing every lane for hours; no one was injured and all lanes reopened around 3:20 p.m., with the Georgia State Patrol investigating ◆ Troup County: I-85 northbound FULLY REOPENED at SR 219 after a tractor-trailer fire; both lanes were shut from 2:57 p.m., the left lane reopened about 5:45 p.m. and GDOT’s 8:28 p.m. update shows no lanes blocked ◆ Buford: a walk-behind floor cleaner accidentally started a small fire in a janitorial closet behind Victoria's Secret and GNC at the Mall of Georgia; sprinklers put it out before crews arrived and no injuries were reported ◆ Gwinnett County: the man shot to death at the Woodland Grove Townhomes off Lawrenceville Highway has been identified as Ty'shawn Frank, 29, and Loren Tademy, 28, has been arrested in Savannah and charged with felony murder ◆ Houston County: metal detection systems are coming to every middle and high school in the Houston County School District, plus stadiums and competition gyms, with a security guard added at each school and at the Houston College & Career Academy; delivery is expected in four to eight weeks and hiring starts in September ◆ Cobb & Fulton: the two right lanes of I-285 close between Hollowell Parkway (exit 12) and South Cobb Drive (exit 15) from 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21 to 5 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24; GDOT has no full closure scheduled this time, unlike last weekend ◆ Lee County: the farm tractor driver killed by a Norfolk Southern train at the Goodwin Road crossing near U.S. Highway 19 has been identified as Jose Aguilar, 38, of Montezuma; the Georgia State Patrol investigation is active and its findings are preliminary ◆ Hephzibah: a parent with a weapon was detained in the Hephzibah High School parking lot Thursday; no students or staff were hurt and normal school operations were not disrupted, the principal told families ◆ Worth County: Worth County High School in Sylvester released students at 1 p.m. Thursday after a message referencing a possible bomb threat was found written on a bathroom wall; a law enforcement search of the school reportedly turned up no explosive devices and all Worth County schools are on a normal schedule Friday, with Sylvester police handling the case ◆ Athens-Clarke County: a car and a Clarke County Schools bus collided on the Athens Perimeter outer loop at about 7:15 a.m. Thursday; children were aboard and none were reported injured, and the car's driver was taken to the hospital ◆ DeKalb County: Moreland Avenue and the exits from I-285 onto it reopened about 3:30 p.m. Thursday, roughly six hours after an overturned truck spilled about 300 gallons of hydrogen peroxide at Thurman Drive; fire crews contained the leak at 12:45 p.m. and no injuries were reported ◆ Sumter County: one dead and one airlifted after a head-on accident on Highway 19 South near Highway 308 and Three Bridges Road; the northbound lanes were closed and traffic rerouted onto Highway 308 while deputies worked the scene ◆ Troup County: all lanes of I-185 southbound were closed at South Thompson Road from 7:46 a.m.; GDOT dropped the event from 511's active list just after 9 a.m., about 46 minutes before its own anticipated end time ◆ DeKalb County: Bouldercrest Road has reopened at Clifton Church Road after a Honda Accord hit a power pole just before 6 a.m.; the driver ran from the scene and more than 530 Georgia Power customers lost power ◆ Augusta: David Mosley, 65, charged with murder in the shooting death of Otis Keith Pearce, 33, on the 3500 block of Rushing Road; Richmond County deputies arrested him at the scene; charged, not convicted ◆ DeKalb County: the two young children who left with their father after a domestic dispute at Parkway Grand on Woodberry Place have been RETURNED SAFELY to their mother; Jakarii Eason is still wanted on warrants from an EARLIER incident, and police say those charges are not related to Wednesday night ◆ Atlanta: gunfire hits apartments and cars at the Village of Castleberry Hills on McDaniel Street near Northside Drive in southwest Atlanta; police say no injuries reported; no suspect information released, no arrests ◆ Camden County: all I-95 southbound lanes closed at Harrietts Bluff Road after a vehicle fire; GDOT pushes its estimated reopening from 8:09 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.; northbound open with a smoke hazard in the left lane ◆ Troup County: LaGrange police say a 16-year-old student was taken into custody at LaGrange Academy on Vernon Road after a reported threat to shoot students; no weapon found, no charges announced ◆ Laurens County: Dublin City Schools and West Laurens Middle School closed Thursday, Aug. 20, a second straight day, with the Joiner Street boil water advisory still in effect; city manager says it will likely hold at least until 2 p.m. Thursday; all other Laurens County schools open ◆ Coweta County: Isaiah Phillips, 30, arrested in Fayetteville and charged with sexual battery, battery and false imprisonment over the Travis Street attack near downtown Senoia; charged, not convicted ◆ Effingham County: Rincon police say Bryan Fox, 57, was tased and taken into custody after a baseball bat disturbance and a small apartment fire on Towne Park West Drive; not charged, felony charges pending ◆ Barrow County: Brandon Scroggins, 39, of Abilene, Texas, charged over alleged threats to Judge Nicholas Primm and the Barrow County District Attorney's Office in Winder; charged, not convicted ◆ Laurens County: Dublin stays under a boil water advisory after the 16-inch Joiner Street main break is repaired; Dublin City Schools, West Laurens Middle School and the OFTC Dublin campus closed Wednesday, City Hall reopens at noon ◆ Richmond County: coroner identifies Deputy Phillip Wasson, 49, and Heather Michelle Lanier, 57, both of Augusta, as the two killed in the Washington Road accident; Sheriff Eugene Brantley issues a statement; all lanes reopened around 10:15 a.m. ◆ Dougherty County: bicyclist, 40, killed in accident in the 600 block of North Westover Boulevard in Albany; APD traffic unit investigating ◆ Bibb County: Charles Anthony Palmer, 29, of Ocala, Florida, killed by an 18-wheeler while crossing I-475 southbound near Zebulon Road in Macon, BSO says; blocked lanes have cleared ◆ Clayton County: Eric André and Clayton English settle their jet bridge lawsuit against Clayton County police at Hartsfield-Jackson; the county admits no fault and says the program has ended ◆ Cobb County: Stone Mountain man arrested in Smyrna is charged in the Greg Biffle home burglary, the Iredell County sheriff says ◆ Union County: Charles Hosch memorial service set for Sept. 19 after the Blood Mountain search ended without him being found ◆ Atlanta: Mayor Andre Dickens asks the City Council to begin condemnation on five blighted Westside properties ◆ Lee County: Smit Patel charged with 22 counts of sexual exploitation of children after a July 28 cybertip, LCSO says ◆ Sparta: GBI seeks Stephen Russell Ellis, 62, wanted on two warrants, last seen near Island Creek Church Road ◆ Clayton County: I-675 lanes reopen after an SUV fire near Anvil Block Road; no injuries reported ◆ Fulton County: temporary 2026 property tax bills mailed Aug. 15 under a court order; Alpharetta, Milton and Roswell excluded ◆ Southwest Atlanta: renters at Gateway South Apartments say an 8-inch gap split their living room floor open ◆ Metro Atlanta: DPH confirms measles in an unvaccinated resident, the seventh Georgia case of 2026 ◆ Bulloch County: grass fire burns about half a mile of the I-16 West median near State Route 67 at mile marker 125.8 ◆ Jones County: deputies searching for Carl Caruthers, 61, last seen in the Fox Road area, possibly on a black Honda Shadow ◆ Fulton County: Kenneth Spruill, wanted out of Tennessee, arrested in Hapeville ◆ DeKalb County: Tehutihotep Hartley, 26, of Decatur, found unresponsive at the DeKalb County Jail ◆ Fulton County: Eric Gordon of Decatur indicted on a trafficking charge after Operation “Global Chain” ◆ Chatham County: Human remains found at East President Street and Wahlstrom Road construction site, work halted ◆ Chatham County: Largo Drive shooting in Savannah leaves one man seriously hurt; Georgia Southern shelter in place ◆ Fulton County: I-285 fully closed Aug. 28-31 between Langford Parkway and Cascade Road ◆ DeKalb County: seventh mosquito trap of 2026 tests positive for West Nile virus, in ZIP code 30329 ◆ Jones County: deputies searching for John Rouse, 65, last seen near Pinetree Drive and Joycliff Road ◆ Chatham County: Jimmy DeLoach Parkway southbound closed at Morgan Lakes Industrial Boulevard after a steel spill ◆ DeKalb County: student fight and pepper spray at Eagle Woods Academy, officer needed an EpiPen ◆ Metro Atlanta: tree down on Abner Place, lines down on Browns Mill Road, Cagle Road closed ◆ DeKalb County: woman killed on I-285 while directing traffic around an earlier accident ◆ Bibb County: I-75 South left lane closed at mile marker 166 until Wednesday morning ◆ Monroe County: two I-75 southbound lanes out near exits 187-189, Aug. 21-31 ◆ Decatur: Beacon Hill Middle goes virtual after HVAC failure left classrooms in the 90s ◆ Laurens County: Kemp suspends all seven Dublin city school board members ◆ Hall County driver cited for DUI after a minivan struck a bus carrying 28 students ◆ Monroe County water main break cuts service on Collier, Smith and Orchard Ridge ◆ Gwinnett County mother charged in son's hot car death furloughed for a private viewing ◆ Paulding County becomes the third county to charge Bobby Lee Hart Jr. ◆ Henry County Atlanta police K9 Stano found safe in a Hampton swimming pool ◆ Conyers arrest in the Dogwood Drive hit-and-run that killed Andrea Cantrell, 43 ◆ Atlanta Officer DeVante Matthews shot in Oakland City, Michael Gates in custody ◆ Marietta Dairon Keith indicted on eight counts including malice murder in the death of Messiah Harris, 2 ◆ Houston County deputy suspended without pay over Flock plate-reader misuse ◆ Macon Caleb Hendrix sentenced to 15 years in Riggins Mill Road accident that killed Michael Burnett ◆ Cobb County Albany NY police employee denied bail on child molestation charges ◆ Hart County body recovered from Lake Hartwell two months after David Seymour vanished ◆ Sparta five shot at Hancock County party, one critical ◆ Atlanta Amber Alert sisters found safe; babysitter Lakesha Brown charged with kidnapping ◆ Gwinnett County seven plead guilty to racketeering over 492 vehicle break-ins ◆ Atlanta Davion Curney charged in the death of Cameron Boone, 13 ◆ Alpharetta Drive Planning CEO Todd Burkhalter sentenced to 20 years in Ponzi scheme ◆ Covington Destinee Riggins arrested after officer dragged on Highway 142 ◆ Barrow County Apalachee shooter Colt Gray sentenced to life without parole ◆ Decatur son charged with murder after father found shot to death on Pepperdine Drive ◆ Coweta County former school resource officer indicted on child molestation charges ◆ Hall County Cherokee Bluff High cleared after bomb threat, no device found ◆ Paulding County coroner orders inquest into Heather Turner's 2017 death ◆ Jackson County all schools closed Friday after overnight bomb threats ◆ DeKalb County missing 9-year-old Eli found safe ◆ Douglasville driver charged in prom night accident that killed Patience Price, 18 ◆ Stone Mountain search continues for Sherry Wages, 72, missing since June ◆ Trenton NY mother and 2 children found living in a shed; extradition pending ◆ Athens Maxton Ball, 9, killed on Lexington Road at Whit Davis Road ◆ Troup County Dakota Fuller charged with arson after Jim Turner Road fire ◆ Waynesboro new judge assigned in ousted sheriff case ◆ Valdosta 559.4 lbs of marijuana seized in i-75 traffic stop ◆ Albany apd searching for 2 armed robbery suspects ◆ Fulton County jail escapee Demetrius Burkes back in custody after downtown search ◆ Floyd County William Roger Caver charged with felony murder in the death of Christopher D. Freeland ◆ MARTA service shut at Medical Center station after a man walked onto the tracks ◆ Milledgeville two sentenced in a federal methamphetamine trafficking case ◆ Macon woman, 42, dies after being struck by a van on Houston Avenue ◆ DeKalb County two separate shootings minutes apart, one person dead ◆ Lawrenceville nine years in federal prison for Gabriel Ojeda Murguia in a fentanyl case ◆ Smyrna bond denied for a former Ridgeview Institute employee charged in an assault on a patient ◆ Washington County three arrested in a prison contraband-drop investigation ◆ Savannah mayor and DA respond after a Daffin Park suspect's arrest history ◆ Macon Torey Burnette sentenced to life with parole in the death of Zyshown Dunn ◆ East Point human skull found in the woods; remains unidentified ◆ McDuffie County Mateo Santos Pinkston held on a murder charge ◆ Augusta testimony continues in the murder trial over the death of Arbrie Anthony, 8 ◆ Albany murder trial opens for Shaquille Mathis in the 2020 killing of Jawaski Kennedy ◆ Sparta GBI seeking information on George Wayne Pailloz Jr., 55, missing since late July ◆ Savannah Charles Teeple sentenced in the 2019 New Year's Eve death of Bruce Helmly ◆ Dublin state board recommends suspending the city school board; nobody is suspended, Kemp decides ◆ Cartersville three men indicted on federal forced-labor charges ◆ Tifton two women charged with aggravated battery in Crescent Ridge attack ◆ DeKalb County arrests announced over I-285 street takeover near Glenwood Road ◆ Cornelia family escapes Waterwheel Court house fire during overnight storms ◆ Gilmer County fallen tree blocked crews reaching a house fire on Highway 382 ◆ SR 316 right-lane closures at Jimmy Daniell Road Thursday and Friday nights ◆ Vidalia Savannah man charged with murder in the July 4 death of Rashad Lumpkin ◆ Savannah bond denied for all five charged in Fellwood Homes shooting ◆ Glynn County sheriff's office defends its release of a veteran with dementia ◆ Clayton County person shot after encounter between drivers near Highway 138 ◆ Downtown Atlanta man shot near Hurt Plaza in early-morning dispute ◆ Marietta Dairon Keith indicted on murder charges in the death of Messiah Harris, 2 ◆ McDuffie County Tangla Brown, 48, killed in Old Milledgeville Road accident ◆ Gainesville Obed Reyes charged in apartment break-in and assault of a teenager ◆ Albany man found dead at Country Place Apartments ◆ Albany two killed when van left Wildfair Road and struck a tree ◆ Barrow County school bus accident on Highway 211, six students taken to a hospital ◆ Paulding County former Dallas 911 director charged over Flock camera misuse ◆ Albany structure fire on West Gordon Avenue, no injuries reported ◆ Savannah man shot in the leg in the 1900 block of Pendleton Street ◆ Atlanta man killed on I-85 South near Metropolitan Parkway ◆ I-285 fully closed both directions this weekend, Cascade Rd to MLK Jr. Dr ◆ Douglas County fourth arrest in Dog River Reservoir death of Jamal Parker ◆ Warner Robins 14-year-old denied bond in high school shooting case ◆ Macon woman's body found outside abandoned building on Second Street ◆ Lithonia Ricardo Fallen, 20, killed in DeKalb County apartment shooting ◆ Southwest Atlanta Cascade Avenue closed after tree downs power lines and traffic signal ◆ Buford bystander shot outside Mall of Georgia venue; Jalyn Watkins, 22, charged ◆ Columbus police search for Keith Teague, 57, missing since July 28 ◆ Warner Robins apartment fire damages eight units, displaces 15 at Village North ◆ Conyers AutoZone employee shot in the leg; co-worker charged with reckless conduct ◆ Lamar County Keith Odel, 26, arrested after driver shot at on Lamar County Line Road ◆ Jonesboro Joshua Scott, 27, killed in Dixon Road shooting; one detained ◆ Smyrna student arrested after weapon recovered at Campbell Middle School ◆ Ellenwood Joanne Howell, 70, recovered from Misty Lake after Mattie's Call ◆ DeKalb County 16-year-old arrested in Rockcliff Road sleepover shooting ◆ Lawrenceville Camp Perrin Road house fire ruled arson, six adults displaced ◆ Newnan girl, 14, escapes Highway 154 standoff; man charged ◆ I-75 Atlanta Akil Lateef Mayer, 34, killed running across the interstate ◆ Atlanta 85-year-old woman shot on her own porch on Browns Mill Road ◆ Hazlehurst Terrance McCoy, 16, killed; 2 teens charged with murder ◆ Vine City Demazio Skelton Jr., 35, killed; Naim Smith, 19, charged with murder ◆ Marietta scooter rider critically hurt on Powder Springs Road ◆ Whitfield County tractor-trailer overturns on I-75 near Dalton, SUV driver cited ◆ Macon 4 hurt in I-75 accident at Eisenhower Parkway, driver fatigue cited ◆ Atlanta man killed by Norfolk Southern train on Murphy Avenue ◆ Troup County Ked Hall, 55, of LaGrange killed in Hines Road accident ◆ Cartersville Connor Smith, 27, killed in Highway 20 motorcycle accident ◆ Adairsville Ratanza Winters-Gardner, 34, killed; driver charged with vehicular homicide ◆ Cartersville Brian McLaughlin, 57, killed crossing Highway 41 at Grassdale Road ◆ Lake Allatoona all 5 aboard ejected in boat accident, no deaths reported ◆ Macon 3 former Bibb County deputies charged over Flock camera searches ◆ Bartow County 3 dead in 3 days on Highway 20 and Joe Frank Harris Parkway ◆ Burke County 4 killed at two scenes, suspect shot dead by deputies ◆ Albany school bus driver cited after Liberty Expressway accident ◆ Columbia County 14-year-old killed on I-20 at mile marker 187 ◆ Cobb County Marietta man, 81, killed in Barrett Parkway accident ◆ Rockdale County lockdowns lifted at two high schools, person in custody ◆ Pulaski County Fred Hitchcock, 75, killed on Eastman Highway near Hawkinsville ◆ Dooly County 1 killed on Highway 27 after a deer strike near Vienna ◆ Cartersville Marcus Maurice Williams, 31, killed by Bartow County deputy ◆ I-85 NB reopened at mile marker 136 after fatal 5-vehicle accident ◆ Bulloch County Statesboro woman killed on Old River Road ◆ North Georgia 2 critically injured in plane accident, NTSB investigating ◆ Atlanta: A gas leak closed Memorial Drive near Wilbur Avenue in Reynoldstown Thursday morning; Atlanta Fire Rescue asked the public to avoid the area while crews worked to repair it ◆ Crisp County: A driver was hospitalized after a northbound vehicle struck a Georgia DOT truck on I-75 at mile marker 104; the sheriff's office is investigating ◆ Paulding County: Chloe Day, 9, reported missing Wednesday night near Old Cartersville Road, was found safe Thursday morning; the circumstances behind her recovery are unknown, Atlanta News First reported. ◆ Atlanta: A pedestrian was struck and killed on I-75/85 northbound at the North Avenue exit just before 5 a.m. Thursday; all northbound lanes of the Downtown Connector reopened at 8:38 a.m. ◆ Sylvania: a Screven County High School student was taken into custody Wednesday after an alleged social media threat; dispatchers alerted police about 3:18 p.m. and authorities said no active threat remained ◆ Augusta: two students at Monte Sano Elementary School were heard talking about a weapon during a class transition Wednesday; Principal Jasmine Scott wrote to families the same day ◆ Twiggs County: a 6-year-old spotted a house fire on Sgoda Road and alerted his mother, who uses a wheelchair; all three people inside got out uninjured. ◆ Floyd County: Drake Ladon Keef, 32, is charged with hit and run in the accident that killed pedestrian Stevie Marie Thompson, 35, near Chulio Road; he is charged, not convicted. ◆ DeKalb County: one person was hospitalized with serious injuries after a shooting at a home on Hidden Creek Drive; police were called at about 9:45 a.m. and have not announced an arrest. ◆ Richmond County: Marcellus Ponder, 35, of Augusta was killed at 1:39 a.m. in a single-vehicle accident on the I-20 westbound Exit 196 ramp to I-520; he was pronounced dead at 2:46 a.m. and the westbound lanes reopened around 5:15 a.m. ◆ Worth County: two people were killed where State Route 32 meets State Route 300, and GDOT says it will put a temporary R-CUT at the junction this year ahead of a roundabout ◆ Fulton County: fire gutted the vacant Dairy Queen at North Avenue and Parkway Drive in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward; no injuries, cause under investigation ◆ Fulton County: a second man is charged in the July 2025 Sweet Auburn mass shooting on Edgewood Avenue in Atlanta — FBI Atlanta says its Violent Crime Task Force arrested Nasir Williams on a murder count and ten counts of aggravated assault; Santos J. Wyatt, 27, was killed and ten people wounded, and a third person is still being sought. Charged, not convicted. ◆ Taylor County: two former Reynolds police officers are charged over an Aug. 22 domestic dispute on Armory Street — Landon E. Aldridge, 23, with hindering a 911 call and Christopher K. Boyt, 36, with violation of oath of office; both had already left the department and both investigations remain active ◆ Richmond County Hephzibah Middle School was briefly evacuated Tuesday after a threatening call to the front office; students and staff were moved to Hephzibah Comprehensive High School, officers swept the building and an all-clear followed. No one was hurt, and no one has been identified, detained or charged. ◆ Liberty County An accident closed Highway 144 both ways between I-95 and Sunbury Road near Fort Stewart from 1:10 p.m.; GDOT's record no longer listed the closure at 6:05 p.m. and no agency has announced a reopening ◆ Dougherty County Terrance Davis, 28, is in custody in Texas awaiting extradition over the Feb. 2 East Broad Avenue accident in Albany that killed Dyllin Fallin, 31; the district attorney confirmed the arrest Tuesday ◆ DeKalb County Chamblee Dunwoody Road has reopened both ways between Redfield Drive and Oakpointe Place in Dunwoody after crews repaired a gas leak; police said so around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday ◆ Barrow County A dump truck hit a utility pole and went into the Super H gas station at 752 Christmas Avenue in Bethlehem on Tuesday morning; a store clerk was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, the driver had minor scratches, and investigators pointed to an apparent mechanical failure ◆ Grady County Cairo High School says the lockdown notifications sent to families and the community on Tuesday were a false alarm and that there is no threat to the school; it has not said what caused them ◆ South Fulton The South Fulton Police Department is asking for help finding Gibril Kanu, 37, who investigators say is autistic and has bipolar disorder, last seen Monday morning at River Oak Terrace; anyone with information is asked to call 470-809-7300 ◆ Effingham County The Effingham County Sheriff's Office is asking for help finding Gabriale Foskey, 17, last seen at her home on Sir Stephen Court in Guyton on July 25; the agency says she may be in the Savannah area and asks anyone with information to call 912-754-3449 ◆ Chatham County Savannah police shut down Waters Avenue between 56th Street and Delesseps Avenue Tuesday morning for a suspicious package investigation; no reopening time was given ◆ Douglas County The Douglas County Sheriff's Office is asking for help finding Zariyah Miller, 15, last seen leaving her home on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026; the agency has classified her as a runaway and asks anyone with information to contact Inv. J. Jenkins at 678-486-1215 ◆ Cherokee County The driver of a minivan died after hitting the back of a Woodstock Elementary school bus stopped at a red light at Highway 92 and Main Street in Woodstock on Tuesday morning; he was 79 and from Marietta, two students were treated for minor injuries and all 20 students and the bus driver are safe ◆ Cherokee County The Frank C. Mills III Justice Center in Canton is closed until further notice after an Aug. 21 hazmat incident; a judicial emergency runs through Aug. 28, court deadlines are tolled and courts are sitting at 94 North Street and the Historic Courthouse. ◆ Bryan County: Richmond Hill has a boil water advisory in effect for Plantation Apartments buildings A through G after a leak repair dropped water pressure; it lifts when city testing clears ◆ Troup County: a student was stabbed with scissors during a fight at Gardner Newman Middle School in LaGrange on Monday afternoon; a 13-year-old faces charges of aggravated assault, aggravated battery and disrupting a public school ◆ Chatham County: storms cut power to about 1,800 Georgia Power customers in Savannah Monday afternoon; 1,500 were back on within four hours and about 300 remained out, with a snapped pole off Middleground Road ◆ Bryan County: Georgia State Patrol says eight children reported injuries and four were taken to Memorial Children's Hospital of Savannah after a Silverado hit the rear of a school bus on Highway 144 at Cherry Street in Richmond Hill; the driver of a Mercedes SUV was charged with improper lane change ◆ Gwinnett County: a tractor-trailer fire closed all I-85 northbound lanes at the SR 211 exit near mile marker 124 from 1:21 p.m. ET; Gwinnett County police said one lane reopened about 3:30 p.m., and the right lane was still blocked as of GDOT’s 5:57 p.m. update. ◆ Coweta County: all clear given after the bomb threat at Georgia Power's Plant Yates on Dyer Road; Highway 16 was shut at Dyer Road, sheriff's investigation ongoing ◆ Towns County Sheriff Kenneth Henderson resigned Monday and took a negotiated plea over a confrontation with a Hiawassee officer; 10 years probation under the First Offender Act, a $1,000 fine and no running for office while on probation. ◆ Cherokee County Jackie Ingram has been arrested on a charge of arson in the first degree in the Bells Ferry Road house fire that killed a dog early Monday; investigators say the cause is still being worked. ◆ Lithonia A house fire destroyed a home at 7327 Union Grove Road in DeKalb County early Monday; one adult displaced, no injuries, and the road closed to traffic as of 7:25 a.m. ◆ Fulton County An accident blocked I-20 eastbound at Fulton Industrial Boulevard early Monday with stop-and-go traffic back to Thornton Road; all eastbound lanes have reopened ◆ Chatham County The Bull Street ramp to River Street and portions of East Upper Factors Walk are closed in downtown Savannah for Thomas Gamble Building renovation work; the city put the reopening at Friday, Aug. 28 ◆ Fulton County Richard Gooddine, a former East Point police sergeant, is due back in a Fulton County courtroom at 9 a.m. Monday for a retrial on 10 counts a 2022 jury deadlocked on; that jury acquitted him on seven others and he has maintained his innocence, WSB-TV reported ◆ Fulton County Katrice Simmons, 59, missing since May 19 after moving from Florida to an apartment off Lanier Street NW, has been found, her daughter told FOX 5 Atlanta on Monday; Atlanta police had not responded to the station by 1:15 p.m. and her condition has not been stated ◆ Candler Road one person was shot on the 2500 block near the Motel 6 in unincorporated Decatur about 5 a.m. Sunday and taken to a hospital; DeKalb County police say the person who fired left before officers arrived and no description has been released ◆ Atlanta BeltLine a person stabbed near the Kroger at 725 Ponce de Leon Avenue NE died at a hospital Sunday afternoon; one possible suspect was detained and no charge has been announced ◆ Downtown Connector a man on foot was struck by several vehicles and killed on I-75/85 northbound near University Avenue NW early Sunday; all northbound lanes were closed about three and a half hours ◆ I-75 Atlanta the woman killed in the hit-and-run near Cleveland Avenue SW has been identified as Jaquelin Telesforo Vazquez, 23; the Volkswagen's driver left the scene on foot and is not in custody ◆ Clayton County schools hold a remote learning day Monday, Aug. 24 — all Pre-K–12 students learn from home, staff report as normal, classes resume Tuesday ◆ Henry County Eagle’s Landing Country Club still partly dark Sunday night; Georgia Power says a truck hit a transformer, about 490 of roughly 900 customers were still out, and restoration for all is estimated at noon Monday ◆ Marietta Paul Mackay, 76, who has dementia and went missing from a Roswell Road apartment, found safe about 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Cobb County police say ◆ Augusta: Richmond County deputies are searching for James Atkinson, 47, wanted in connection with an aggravated assault and an aggravated battery reported Saturday on the 500 block of Boy Scout Road; deputies say he may be carrying a machete ◆ Cordele: A 2-month-old boy died Friday evening after being brought to Crisp Regional Hospital; Cordele police and the GBI are investigating and the body was sent to the state crime lab in Macon for an autopsy, with no cause of death determined ◆ Atlanta: A 35-year-old man was shot during an argument at Tokyo Valentino on Cheshire Bridge Road about 6:10 a.m. Saturday; a security guard shot the suspect, and James Jenkins, 23, has been charged with aggravated assault ◆ Savannah: A man was fatally shot Friday night inside a home on Benton Boulevard; Victor Bernardo Salazar, 18, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault ◆ Crisp County: One man was killed about 5:30 a.m. Saturday in a two-vehicle accident on I-75 near mile marker 94 in Cordele; the sheriff's office is investigating ◆ Macon: Clint Parrish, 30, was struck and killed on Forsyth Road in north Macon early Saturday; the Bibb County Sheriff's Office says the driver left without reporting it ◆ Cobb County: Casey Price, 26, of Cartersville was killed about 3:23 a.m. Saturday when his car struck a parked tractor-trailer on I-75 northbound at the I-575 split ◆ Atlanta: A 54-year-old man was killed about 2:35 a.m. Saturday on I-20 eastbound near Martin Luther King Jr. Drive; officers believe a tire may have blown out ◆ Atlanta: Michaela Kemp, 26, was killed about 2:25 a.m. Saturday on I-85 southbound near GA 400 during a roadside fight; the medical examiner released her name that afternoon ◆ Gordon County: USGS recorded a magnitude 2.4 earthquake about 4:54 a.m. Saturday near Resaca and Calhoun, at a depth of about 5.8 miles, with no felt reports ◆ Richmond Hill: Richmond Hill police say Eli Longobardi, 15, the teenager last seen leaving a Richmond Heights bus stop Thursday afternoon, has been located safely ◆ Port Wentworth: Police are asking for help finding Kellyeah Claxton, 15, last seen at her home on Cold Creek Pass in a gray dress; officials believe she may be in east Savannah ◆ Thomaston: A 1977 Piper Lance came down on its belly at the Thomaston-Upson County Airport near Rocky Bottom Road about 2:30 p.m. Friday, ran off the end of the runway and struck an antenna; both people aboard were uninjured and the airport was shut down until further notice ◆ Augusta: Ronald Wynn II, 21, was killed and a woman was hospitalized in a shooting on the 3800 block of Old Waynesboro Road; the coroner said Wynn was pronounced dead at Wellstar MCG at 4:33 p.m. and an autopsy has been scheduled, and no suspect has been identified ◆ Savannah: The GBI has arrested and charged four former Savannah Police Department employees over use of the Flock Safety license plate reader system; all four were booked into the Chatham County Jail and the investigation is active and ongoing ◆ Canton: A ruptured line in the main air conditioning system at the Cherokee County Justice Center on North Street coated all three floors with a hazardous film Friday afternoon; the building was evacuated, hazmat crews stopped the leak and officials said no injuries were reported ◆ Twiggs County: A severe thunderstorm dropped trees across Highway 96 between Highway 80 and Watson Drive in Jeffersonville on Friday afternoon, trapping three school buses; no one was injured and Highway 96 was passable again about 4:23 p.m., the sheriff's office said ◆ Marietta: Hazmat teams stabilized a chemical reaction at a business at 2242 Northwest Pkwy. in Cobb County on Friday morning; three people inside were evaluated by medical crews and released, the Marietta Fire Department said ◆ Atlanta: Antavious Kimber, on APD's Top 10 Most Wanted list in connection with a Dec. 10, 2025 southwest Atlanta homicide, has been arrested, the FBI's Violent Crime Task Force and APD's Fugitive Unit announced Friday ◆ Canton: the mother of a 2-year-old boy who died after being found unresponsive on Cartersville Street is charged with murder in the second degree, Canton police announced Friday ◆ Northwest Atlanta: a cat, several chickens and several ducks were rescued from a house fire in the 600 block of North Avenue NW near Georgia Tech Friday morning; a second cat is unaccounted for and the cause is still under investigation ◆ Atkinson County: the GBI says preliminary information indicates Kendall Alfonzo Stevens, 37, an inmate serving life without parole at Telfair State Prison, made the Aug. 21 bomb threat that closed every Atkinson County school; no charge has been announced and the Alapaha District Attorney’s Office will review the case file ◆ Burke County: the sheriff's office confirmed Friday that a Thursday night accident on Highway 23 between Saxon Road and Spring Branch Church Road was deadly; the road reopened at 12:20 a.m. Friday, and the number of people killed and the cause have not been released ◆ Ringgold flash flooding floods Caffeine Addicts on Nashville Street, damages Battlefield Parkway and Hwy 41 businesses; homes hit near Creekside Park ◆ Atlanta: a car sped through the Morehouse College campus, hit a light pole and overturned about 12:25 a.m. Friday on the 800 block of Westview Drive SW, narrowly missing two Spelman College students; the driver has not been identified and no citation or charge has been announced ◆ Atlanta: a man, 33, found shot dead behind the wheel of a gray SUV at the Villages at Castleberry Hill on McDaniel Street near Northside Drive around 1:30 a.m. Friday; police say he was killed in an attempted robbery, possibly two suspects, no arrests, not yet identified ◆ DeKalb County: GSP charges 18-year-old Jakori Cope with violating the Move Over law and following too closely after an accident in an active work zone on I-20 eastbound near Panola Road in Lithonia; a Greene County deputy and a 42-year-old man were hospitalized, and all eastbound lanes reopened just after 6 a.m. ◆ Clayton County: Delta Flight 1518 to Raleigh RETURNED to Hartsfield-Jackson on Thursday night after right engine trouble; the Boeing 737-900 took off at 7:42 p.m., landed back at 8:10 p.m. and nobody was reported hurt ◆ Chatham County: Georgia Southern LIFTED the Armstrong campus shelter-in-place in Savannah at about 7:50 p.m. Thursday, saying no known imminent threat remains after an armed robbery reported near Mercy Boulevard and Abercorn Street ◆ Laurens County: Dublin boil water advisory LIFTED as of 5:36 p.m. Thursday after testing cleared the water system; normal use may resume, with higher chlorine possible during flushing; West Laurens Middle School returns to its regular schedule Friday ◆ Chatham County: police are searching for Ronald Sapp Jr., 52, last seen July 30 in the woods off Bradley Boulevard and Ogeechee Road; police said he has medical concerns and believe he does not have his prescribed medication, and appealed to the public for help on Thursday ◆ Cobb County: I-20 westbound REOPENED in Austell just before 8 p.m. Thursday, about three hours after an accident between Riverside Parkway and Thornton Road that seriously injured at least one person ◆ Cherokee County: a stabbing in the parking lot of the Chick-fil-A on Highway 92 near I-75 in Acworth sent a mother to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital on Thursday afternoon; her daughter was stopped in Whitfield County about an hour and 15 minutes later, two children in the car were not hurt, and the restaurant is temporarily closed ◆ Dodge County: a tractor-combine, a box truck and a log truck collided on U.S. Highway 280 near State Route 87 around 12:45 p.m. Thursday, closing every lane for hours; no one was injured and all lanes reopened around 3:20 p.m., with the Georgia State Patrol investigating ◆ Troup County: I-85 northbound FULLY REOPENED at SR 219 after a tractor-trailer fire; both lanes were shut from 2:57 p.m., the left lane reopened about 5:45 p.m. and GDOT’s 8:28 p.m. update shows no lanes blocked ◆ Buford: a walk-behind floor cleaner accidentally started a small fire in a janitorial closet behind Victoria's Secret and GNC at the Mall of Georgia; sprinklers put it out before crews arrived and no injuries were reported ◆ Gwinnett County: the man shot to death at the Woodland Grove Townhomes off Lawrenceville Highway has been identified as Ty'shawn Frank, 29, and Loren Tademy, 28, has been arrested in Savannah and charged with felony murder ◆ Houston County: metal detection systems are coming to every middle and high school in the Houston County School District, plus stadiums and competition gyms, with a security guard added at each school and at the Houston College & Career Academy; delivery is expected in four to eight weeks and hiring starts in September ◆ Cobb & Fulton: the two right lanes of I-285 close between Hollowell Parkway (exit 12) and South Cobb Drive (exit 15) from 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 21 to 5 a.m. Monday, Aug. 24; GDOT has no full closure scheduled this time, unlike last weekend ◆ Lee County: the farm tractor driver killed by a Norfolk Southern train at the Goodwin Road crossing near U.S. Highway 19 has been identified as Jose Aguilar, 38, of Montezuma; the Georgia State Patrol investigation is active and its findings are preliminary ◆ Hephzibah: a parent with a weapon was detained in the Hephzibah High School parking lot Thursday; no students or staff were hurt and normal school operations were not disrupted, the principal told families ◆ Worth County: Worth County High School in Sylvester released students at 1 p.m. Thursday after a message referencing a possible bomb threat was found written on a bathroom wall; a law enforcement search of the school reportedly turned up no explosive devices and all Worth County schools are on a normal schedule Friday, with Sylvester police handling the case ◆ Athens-Clarke County: a car and a Clarke County Schools bus collided on the Athens Perimeter outer loop at about 7:15 a.m. Thursday; children were aboard and none were reported injured, and the car's driver was taken to the hospital ◆ DeKalb County: Moreland Avenue and the exits from I-285 onto it reopened about 3:30 p.m. Thursday, roughly six hours after an overturned truck spilled about 300 gallons of hydrogen peroxide at Thurman Drive; fire crews contained the leak at 12:45 p.m. and no injuries were reported ◆ Sumter County: one dead and one airlifted after a head-on accident on Highway 19 South near Highway 308 and Three Bridges Road; the northbound lanes were closed and traffic rerouted onto Highway 308 while deputies worked the scene ◆ Troup County: all lanes of I-185 southbound were closed at South Thompson Road from 7:46 a.m.; GDOT dropped the event from 511's active list just after 9 a.m., about 46 minutes before its own anticipated end time ◆ DeKalb County: Bouldercrest Road has reopened at Clifton Church Road after a Honda Accord hit a power pole just before 6 a.m.; the driver ran from the scene and more than 530 Georgia Power customers lost power ◆ Augusta: David Mosley, 65, charged with murder in the shooting death of Otis Keith Pearce, 33, on the 3500 block of Rushing Road; Richmond County deputies arrested him at the scene; charged, not convicted ◆ DeKalb County: the two young children who left with their father after a domestic dispute at Parkway Grand on Woodberry Place have been RETURNED SAFELY to their mother; Jakarii Eason is still wanted on warrants from an EARLIER incident, and police say those charges are not related to Wednesday night ◆ Atlanta: gunfire hits apartments and cars at the Village of Castleberry Hills on McDaniel Street near Northside Drive in southwest Atlanta; police say no injuries reported; no suspect information released, no arrests ◆ Camden County: all I-95 southbound lanes closed at Harrietts Bluff Road after a vehicle fire; GDOT pushes its estimated reopening from 8:09 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.; northbound open with a smoke hazard in the left lane ◆ Troup County: LaGrange police say a 16-year-old student was taken into custody at LaGrange Academy on Vernon Road after a reported threat to shoot students; no weapon found, no charges announced ◆ Laurens County: Dublin City Schools and West Laurens Middle School closed Thursday, Aug. 20, a second straight day, with the Joiner Street boil water advisory still in effect; city manager says it will likely hold at least until 2 p.m. Thursday; all other Laurens County schools open ◆ Coweta County: Isaiah Phillips, 30, arrested in Fayetteville and charged with sexual battery, battery and false imprisonment over the Travis Street attack near downtown Senoia; charged, not convicted ◆ Effingham County: Rincon police say Bryan Fox, 57, was tased and taken into custody after a baseball bat disturbance and a small apartment fire on Towne Park West Drive; not charged, felony charges pending ◆ Barrow County: Brandon Scroggins, 39, of Abilene, Texas, charged over alleged threats to Judge Nicholas Primm and the Barrow County District Attorney's Office in Winder; charged, not convicted ◆ Laurens County: Dublin stays under a boil water advisory after the 16-inch Joiner Street main break is repaired; Dublin City Schools, West Laurens Middle School and the OFTC Dublin campus closed Wednesday, City Hall reopens at noon ◆ Richmond County: coroner identifies Deputy Phillip Wasson, 49, and Heather Michelle Lanier, 57, both of Augusta, as the two killed in the Washington Road accident; Sheriff Eugene Brantley issues a statement; all lanes reopened around 10:15 a.m. ◆ Dougherty County: bicyclist, 40, killed in accident in the 600 block of North Westover Boulevard in Albany; APD traffic unit investigating ◆ Bibb County: Charles Anthony Palmer, 29, of Ocala, Florida, killed by an 18-wheeler while crossing I-475 southbound near Zebulon Road in Macon, BSO says; blocked lanes have cleared ◆ Clayton County: Eric André and Clayton English settle their jet bridge lawsuit against Clayton County police at Hartsfield-Jackson; the county admits no fault and says the program has ended ◆ Cobb County: Stone Mountain man arrested in Smyrna is charged in the Greg Biffle home burglary, the Iredell County sheriff says ◆ Union County: Charles Hosch memorial service set for Sept. 19 after the Blood Mountain search ended without him being found ◆ Atlanta: Mayor Andre Dickens asks the City Council to begin condemnation on five blighted Westside properties ◆ Lee County: Smit Patel charged with 22 counts of sexual exploitation of children after a July 28 cybertip, LCSO says ◆ Sparta: GBI seeks Stephen Russell Ellis, 62, wanted on two warrants, last seen near Island Creek Church Road ◆ Clayton County: I-675 lanes reopen after an SUV fire near Anvil Block Road; no injuries reported ◆ Fulton County: temporary 2026 property tax bills mailed Aug. 15 under a court order; Alpharetta, Milton and Roswell excluded ◆ Southwest Atlanta: renters at Gateway South Apartments say an 8-inch gap split their living room floor open ◆ Metro Atlanta: DPH confirms measles in an unvaccinated resident, the seventh Georgia case of 2026 ◆ Bulloch County: grass fire burns about half a mile of the I-16 West median near State Route 67 at mile marker 125.8 ◆ Jones County: deputies searching for Carl Caruthers, 61, last seen in the Fox Road area, possibly on a black Honda Shadow ◆ Fulton County: Kenneth Spruill, wanted out of Tennessee, arrested in Hapeville ◆ DeKalb County: Tehutihotep Hartley, 26, of Decatur, found unresponsive at the DeKalb County Jail ◆ Fulton County: Eric Gordon of Decatur indicted on a trafficking charge after Operation “Global Chain” ◆ Chatham County: Human remains found at East President Street and Wahlstrom Road construction site, work halted ◆ Chatham County: Largo Drive shooting in Savannah leaves one man seriously hurt; Georgia Southern shelter in place ◆ Fulton County: I-285 fully closed Aug. 28-31 between Langford Parkway and Cascade Road ◆ DeKalb County: seventh mosquito trap of 2026 tests positive for West Nile virus, in ZIP code 30329 ◆ Jones County: deputies searching for John Rouse, 65, last seen near Pinetree Drive and Joycliff Road ◆ Chatham County: Jimmy DeLoach Parkway southbound closed at Morgan Lakes Industrial Boulevard after a steel spill ◆ DeKalb County: student fight and pepper spray at Eagle Woods Academy, officer needed an EpiPen ◆ Metro Atlanta: tree down on Abner Place, lines down on Browns Mill Road, Cagle Road closed ◆ DeKalb County: woman killed on I-285 while directing traffic around an earlier accident ◆ Bibb County: I-75 South left lane closed at mile marker 166 until Wednesday morning ◆ Monroe County: two I-75 southbound lanes out near exits 187-189, Aug. 21-31 ◆ Decatur: Beacon Hill Middle goes virtual after HVAC failure left classrooms in the 90s ◆ Laurens County: Kemp suspends all seven Dublin city school board members ◆ Hall County driver cited for DUI after a minivan struck a bus carrying 28 students ◆ Monroe County water main break cuts service on Collier, Smith and Orchard Ridge ◆ Gwinnett County mother charged in son's hot car death furloughed for a private viewing ◆ Paulding County becomes the third county to charge Bobby Lee Hart Jr. ◆ Henry County Atlanta police K9 Stano found safe in a Hampton swimming pool ◆ Conyers arrest in the Dogwood Drive hit-and-run that killed Andrea Cantrell, 43 ◆ Atlanta Officer DeVante Matthews shot in Oakland City, Michael Gates in custody ◆ Marietta Dairon Keith indicted on eight counts including malice murder in the death of Messiah Harris, 2 ◆ Houston County deputy suspended without pay over Flock plate-reader misuse ◆ Macon Caleb Hendrix sentenced to 15 years in Riggins Mill Road accident that killed Michael Burnett ◆ Cobb County Albany NY police employee denied bail on child molestation charges ◆ Hart County body recovered from Lake Hartwell two months after David Seymour vanished ◆ Sparta five shot at Hancock County party, one critical ◆ Atlanta Amber Alert sisters found safe; babysitter Lakesha Brown charged with kidnapping ◆ Gwinnett County seven plead guilty to racketeering over 492 vehicle break-ins ◆ Atlanta Davion Curney charged in the death of Cameron Boone, 13 ◆ Alpharetta Drive Planning CEO Todd Burkhalter sentenced to 20 years in Ponzi scheme ◆ Covington Destinee Riggins arrested after officer dragged on Highway 142 ◆ Barrow County Apalachee shooter Colt Gray sentenced to life without parole ◆ Decatur son charged with murder after father found shot to death on Pepperdine Drive ◆ Coweta County former school resource officer indicted on child molestation charges ◆ Hall County Cherokee Bluff High cleared after bomb threat, no device found ◆ Paulding County coroner orders inquest into Heather Turner's 2017 death ◆ Jackson County all schools closed Friday after overnight bomb threats ◆ DeKalb County missing 9-year-old Eli found safe ◆ Douglasville driver charged in prom night accident that killed Patience Price, 18 ◆ Stone Mountain search continues for Sherry Wages, 72, missing since June ◆ Trenton NY mother and 2 children found living in a shed; extradition pending ◆ Athens Maxton Ball, 9, killed on Lexington Road at Whit Davis Road ◆ Troup County Dakota Fuller charged with arson after Jim Turner Road fire ◆ Waynesboro new judge assigned in ousted sheriff case ◆ Valdosta 559.4 lbs of marijuana seized in i-75 traffic stop ◆ Albany apd searching for 2 armed robbery suspects ◆ Fulton County jail escapee Demetrius Burkes back in custody after downtown search ◆ Floyd County William Roger Caver charged with felony murder in the death of Christopher D. Freeland ◆ MARTA service shut at Medical Center station after a man walked onto the tracks ◆ Milledgeville two sentenced in a federal methamphetamine trafficking case ◆ Macon woman, 42, dies after being struck by a van on Houston Avenue ◆ DeKalb County two separate shootings minutes apart, one person dead ◆ Lawrenceville nine years in federal prison for Gabriel Ojeda Murguia in a fentanyl case ◆ Smyrna bond denied for a former Ridgeview Institute employee charged in an assault on a patient ◆ Washington County three arrested in a prison contraband-drop investigation ◆ Savannah mayor and DA respond after a Daffin Park suspect's arrest history ◆ Macon Torey Burnette sentenced to life with parole in the death of Zyshown Dunn ◆ East Point human skull found in the woods; remains unidentified ◆ McDuffie County Mateo Santos Pinkston held on a murder charge ◆ Augusta testimony continues in the murder trial over the death of Arbrie Anthony, 8 ◆ Albany murder trial opens for Shaquille Mathis in the 2020 killing of Jawaski Kennedy ◆ Sparta GBI seeking information on George Wayne Pailloz Jr., 55, missing since late July ◆ Savannah Charles Teeple sentenced in the 2019 New Year's Eve death of Bruce Helmly ◆ Dublin state board recommends suspending the city school board; nobody is suspended, Kemp decides ◆ Cartersville three men indicted on federal forced-labor charges ◆ Tifton two women charged with aggravated battery in Crescent Ridge attack ◆ DeKalb County arrests announced over I-285 street takeover near Glenwood Road ◆ Cornelia family escapes Waterwheel Court house fire during overnight storms ◆ Gilmer County fallen tree blocked crews reaching a house fire on Highway 382 ◆ SR 316 right-lane closures at Jimmy Daniell Road Thursday and Friday nights ◆ Vidalia Savannah man charged with murder in the July 4 death of Rashad Lumpkin ◆ Savannah bond denied for all five charged in Fellwood Homes shooting ◆ Glynn County sheriff's office defends its release of a veteran with dementia ◆ Clayton County person shot after encounter between drivers near Highway 138 ◆ Downtown Atlanta man shot near Hurt Plaza in early-morning dispute ◆ Marietta Dairon Keith indicted on murder charges in the death of Messiah Harris, 2 ◆ McDuffie County Tangla Brown, 48, killed in Old Milledgeville Road accident ◆ Gainesville Obed Reyes charged in apartment break-in and assault of a teenager ◆ Albany man found dead at Country Place Apartments ◆ Albany two killed when van left Wildfair Road and struck a tree ◆ Barrow County school bus accident on Highway 211, six students taken to a hospital ◆ Paulding County former Dallas 911 director charged over Flock camera misuse ◆ Albany structure fire on West Gordon Avenue, no injuries reported ◆ Savannah man shot in the leg in the 1900 block of Pendleton Street ◆ Atlanta man killed on I-85 South near Metropolitan Parkway ◆ I-285 fully closed both directions this weekend, Cascade Rd to MLK Jr. Dr ◆ Douglas County fourth arrest in Dog River Reservoir death of Jamal Parker ◆ Warner Robins 14-year-old denied bond in high school shooting case ◆ Macon woman's body found outside abandoned building on Second Street ◆ Lithonia Ricardo Fallen, 20, killed in DeKalb County apartment shooting ◆ Southwest Atlanta Cascade Avenue closed after tree downs power lines and traffic signal ◆ Buford bystander shot outside Mall of Georgia venue; Jalyn Watkins, 22, charged ◆ Columbus police search for Keith Teague, 57, missing since July 28 ◆ Warner Robins apartment fire damages eight units, displaces 15 at Village North ◆ Conyers AutoZone employee shot in the leg; co-worker charged with reckless conduct ◆ Lamar County Keith Odel, 26, arrested after driver shot at on Lamar County Line Road ◆ Jonesboro Joshua Scott, 27, killed in Dixon Road shooting; one detained ◆ Smyrna student arrested after weapon recovered at Campbell Middle School ◆ Ellenwood Joanne Howell, 70, recovered from Misty Lake after Mattie's Call ◆ DeKalb County 16-year-old arrested in Rockcliff Road sleepover shooting ◆ Lawrenceville Camp Perrin Road house fire ruled arson, six adults displaced ◆ Newnan girl, 14, escapes Highway 154 standoff; man charged ◆ I-75 Atlanta Akil Lateef Mayer, 34, killed running across the interstate ◆ Atlanta 85-year-old woman shot on her own porch on Browns Mill Road ◆ Hazlehurst Terrance McCoy, 16, killed; 2 teens charged with murder ◆ Vine City Demazio Skelton Jr., 35, killed; Naim Smith, 19, charged with murder ◆ Marietta scooter rider critically hurt on Powder Springs Road ◆ Whitfield County tractor-trailer overturns on I-75 near Dalton, SUV driver cited ◆ Macon 4 hurt in I-75 accident at Eisenhower Parkway, driver fatigue cited ◆ Atlanta man killed by Norfolk Southern train on Murphy Avenue ◆ Troup County Ked Hall, 55, of LaGrange killed in Hines Road accident ◆ Cartersville Connor Smith, 27, killed in Highway 20 motorcycle accident ◆ Adairsville Ratanza Winters-Gardner, 34, killed; driver charged with vehicular homicide ◆ Cartersville Brian McLaughlin, 57, killed crossing Highway 41 at Grassdale Road ◆ Lake Allatoona all 5 aboard ejected in boat accident, no deaths reported ◆ Macon 3 former Bibb County deputies charged over Flock camera searches ◆ Bartow County 3 dead in 3 days on Highway 20 and Joe Frank Harris Parkway ◆ Burke County 4 killed at two scenes, suspect shot dead by deputies ◆ Albany school bus driver cited after Liberty Expressway accident ◆ Columbia County 14-year-old killed on I-20 at mile marker 187 ◆ Cobb County Marietta man, 81, killed in Barrett Parkway accident ◆ Rockdale County lockdowns lifted at two high schools, person in custody ◆ Pulaski County Fred Hitchcock, 75, killed on Eastman Highway near Hawkinsville ◆ Dooly County 1 killed on Highway 27 after a deer strike near Vienna ◆ Cartersville Marcus Maurice Williams, 31, killed by Bartow County deputy ◆ I-85 NB reopened at mile marker 136 after fatal 5-vehicle accident ◆ Bulloch County Statesboro woman killed on Old River Road ◆ North Georgia 2 critically injured in plane accident, NTSB investigating ◆
