West End News

Despite some of the most inhospitable temperatures in Atlanta in some time, representatives of the 2010 U.S. Census kicked off a three-state informational road tour Monday at MARTA's Five Points station in downtown Atlanta.

Atlanta police are hunting for smash and grab thieves who struck the Mall West End.

For the last three weeks, work crews along the Beltline, the 22-mile loop of parks, trails and transit, have been quietly uprooting rusty, crooked railroad tracks to make way for a mulch trail where hikers can tread and whippersnappers can enjoy nature.

CLOSING ITS DOORS After lackluster sales and stalled nearby development, Historic Westside Village says it'll shut down on Dec.

An assistant professor of English and African-American studies was visiting a friend in Southwest Atlanta when he says he was ambushed by two men.

A year-long probe into an illegal gambling operation in southwest Atlanta culminates with a Tuesday raid that included 21 arrests.

Police say a Tuesday evening raid on an illegal gambling site in Atlanta's West End community is just the beginning.

Not long ago, a Decatur Pastor, Patricia Simpson, and members of her small church, the Prayer, Faith and Worship Outreach Ministry, spotted what, for many across Metro Atlanta, is a familiar sight no one cares to see -- people living underneath bridges.

Joe Rich was trapped at his Paces Manor house with no way out, except a boat. He has been ferrying various things back and forth and is surprised he still has power.

Police said Thursday that they were searching for a killer. The victim was a homeless woman who was shot to death on the steps of an Atlanta church.

If there is one thing Atlanta's mayoral candidates have learned it's that no one is immune to crime.

For nearly two decades the Rev. Joseph Lowery was the co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which had its genesis in Montgomery during the bus strikes in the mid-1950s. He walked beside the Rev.

"You buy it, we fry it." Such was the promise at Nicky's Sea Food - a Southside fish shack that for many years lured passersby on their way home to Adair Park, Mechanicsville, East Point and College Park.

Smash-and-grab burglars broke into a clothing store in West End before daybreak Tuesday.

Robbers smashed their way into a store on Atlanta's West End early Tuesday morning.

Two Georgia Tech students were robbed early Sunday in the same area just off campus where another Tech student was shot during a robbery last month, Atlanta police said.

Two people were killed early Tuesday when a car fleeing police struck a tree in West End.

Two teenagers were killed and a third injured in a crash in the West End area of Atlanta after a police chase early Tuesday morning.

Two people were killed early Tuesday in a wreck in West End that apparently occurred at the end of a police chase.

Atlanta police are investigating claims by witnesses that the department's response to a deadly crash in the West End was less than urgent.