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CBS Atlanta reports that the gunfire happened shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of a Publix grocery store off South Hairston Road in the Stone Mountain area.

City of Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed told reporters at an event in Southwest Atlanta that he was excited to know that we will have two opening days in a few years, alluding to the new Falcons stadium to be built in Atlanta and the new Braves stadium in Cobb which should be finished the same year.

Greenberg Traurig Sponsor Red Cross Blood Drive: On Friday Dec. 13, between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on the 25th floor of the Terminus 200 building in Buckhead, the law firm of Greenberg Traurig will sponsor a Red Cross Blood Drive that's open to everyone.

Georgia education officials say the graduation rate for the state's public high schools increased nearly two percentage points over the previous year.

Fulton County's proposed $25 million funding cuts to Grady Memorial Hospital may happen next week.

Special Photo Kennedy Walls and mother Elenora Andrews Walls are teaming up for another run of Atlanta Ballet's 'Nutcracker,' Kennedy as a dancer and Walls as parent volunteer.

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The search is on for a woman who stole and then crashed a police car in south Fulton County Tuesday morning.

Police said a person was shot on a MARTA bus on Tuesday afternoon. The incident took place on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive NW around 5 p.m. According to authorities, the victim was hit in the leg and was said to be alert and breathing.

Police say a man who was shot while riding a bus in Atlanta has been hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.

It is an economic success story on the southwest side of Atlanta. Anchored by the Camp Creek Marketplace, this ambitious area west of Hartsfield-Jackson Airport has quietly thrived over the last decade.

The Atlanta Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in locating a pair of men depicted running in the surveillance video that accompanies this article.

When the ballpark named after Ted Turner is demolished in four years, the media mogul hopes the city of Atlanta will convert the vacant area into green space.

Atlanta Fire Rescue officials say firefighters were called to the Lawton Avenue home around 12:10 a.m. They found the male homeowner unconscious, in a rear bedroom.

YOU'D BETTER WORK: Participants in artist Aubrey Longley-Cook's RuPaul Cross-Stitch Animation Workshop worked countless hours to create 35 individual cross-stitch portraits of RuPaul to form a brief animation.

A local attorney who has been in private practice for more than 30 years and a longtime State Court judge were appointed Superior Court judges Monday by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal.

The Holiday Spirit will fill the Atlanta History Center, Swan House and the Smith Famiy Farm with special events scheduled Saturday, Dec. 14, from 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. http://news.cision.com/atlanta-history-center/r/atlanta-history-center-s-family-program--holiday-spirit--highlights-sights--sounds--and-smells-of-se,c9501690 Explore holidays past at ... (more)

Since long before it was trendy, Atlanta artist Kathleen Plate has been upcycling, or repurposing old stuff into something new.

A spokesman for Mayor Kasim Reed said Monday that Louis Miller is planning to retire on Jan. 3. Miller has worked as general manager of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport since Sept.