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The small, ramshackle house on Roswell Road, roughly one mile east of the Big Chicken, is known around the world for some of the region's best jam sessions.

Atlanta police are investigating the shooting death of man in Peoplestown on Sunday night.

Neighborhoods in southwest Atlanta and South Fulton are left plagued by horrific violent crime - often committed by the communities' own jobless, hopeless kids - while city leaders focus on fancy downtown stadiums and streetcars.

City taxpayers might no longer have to foot the tab for Underground Atlanta, the Downtown retail strip and tourist attraction that annually costs the city around $8 million to keep a-hummin', should City Hall decide to buy out the lease - and potentially sell the 12-acre site.

Beep Beep Gallery 's latest group show, The Brightness , studies the relationship between light and color, curated by artist Lucha Rodriguez and with works from Jonny Warren, Bo-ra Choi, and Allen Taylor.

Mains include meatloaf, chicken pot pie, pork chop and fried chicken, but no visit to the south would be complete without ordering a veggie plate and Greenwood's is the place to do it.

Commercial real estate development and investment firm KDC reports it has expanded its operations here with the hiring of industry veterans Jim George and Robert Maddux .

St. Patrick's Day is upon us. Many of you will get incredibly drunk even though you are not Irish and you will be hurting the next day.

Police in Rockdale County are searching for armed robbers who busted into a pharmaceutical company, tied up workers and made off with thousands of pills.

A man and a woman were killed in a double shooting early Sunday morning in southeast Atlanta.

Lawns in north Georgia counties covered in warm-season grasses like centipede or St. Augustine will likely show signs of cold damage this spring as a result of the recent snow and ice storms, says University of Georgia Extension turfgrass specialist Clint Waltz.

A group of Atlanta entrepreneurs, economic development officials and others are at the annual technology and entertainment festival South by Southwest Interactive to market the region as a startup and mobile media hub.

Loline "Lory" Pendergrast, a 15-year veteran of The Heritage School in Newnan, has been appointed by J.P. Watson, Head of School, as the new Upper School Head.

Thousands of people will join together on Sunday to celebrate 30 years of helping families in need during the Hunger Walk/Run .

Bob Crowe, left, assistant vice president of administration at Emory-Adventist Hospital at Smyrna, and Roy Acree, deputy fire chief for the city of Smyrna and director of Smyrna Emergency Management, speak together inside the new Joint Emergency Operations Center at the Emory-Adventist campus in Smyrna.

It was just a drill inside a Fayette County hospital on Saturday. The drill simulated at Piedmont Fayette Hospital was a panicked situation to help emergency responders to prepare for the absolute worst.

Two people were arrested following an overnight standoff that last nearly 5 hours in Gwinnett County neighborhood early Saturday morning.

According to Atlanta police, armed thieves made off with an estimated $10,000 worth of clothing and an undetermined amount of cash during an early Saturday afternoon robbery at Raw Denim in Midtown.

State representatives are currently considering a piece of legislation called the "Flint River Drought Protection Act."

Here's an inside look at an area home listed for sale by Zillow.com . This home at 7 Cherokee Road has 7 beds, 8 baths and nearly 10,000 square feet on 4 acres in North Atlanta.