Fulton County News

Sparkle Rai's father Bennet Reid wiped away a tear Thursday evening when he heard the sentence.

An Atlanta man was sentenced to life plus 10 years Thursday for murdering his ex-lover - the second time he had been found guilty of shooting a former partner.

Police believe a 14-year-old boy used a shotgun to shoot and kill a 12-year-old boy Wednesday night at a south Fulton County apartment.

Fourteen Fulton County youth will tour Germany July 5 - 17, 2009 to explore differences and similarities in cultures, including comparisons of human rights issues in Germany and the United States.

Seventeen cars of a coal train have derailed and tipped over in south Fulton County.

A state judicial nominating commission has submitted a list of nine candidates for an open seat on the Georgia Supreme Court.

A $940,000 effort to resurface four miles of roadway in suburban Atlanta - Georgia's first federal stimulus transportation project - will begin this week, Gov.

The next meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association will be held on Saturday, July 11, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. at the Chattahoochee Nature Center in Roswell.

Fulton County Police are looking for an unidentified female shooter on the run after wounding a local man late Sunday afternoon.

A College Park man was shot in the face late Saturday evening after an apparent argument, police said.

Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA-' rating to Fulton County Facilities Corp., GA's approximately $120 million certificates of participation , series 2009.

An investigation by the Glynn County school district has confirmed "test improprieties" at a Brunswick elementary school that is part of a statewide probe into allegations of cheating on standardized tests.

A former Georgia congressman and two of his business associates were charged with conspiracy and telling lies in an illegal campaign contribution scheme linked to a 2005 Atlanta city council election.

A Sandy Springs teenager accused of gunning down his mother on June 2 told police he was a "psychotic killer" and said killing his mother was "an adrenaline rush." Investigators were stunned at the jovial attitude displayed by 18-year-old Alexander Ezekiel Cordell as they questioned him about the slaying of his mother, Shani Fecht, 40, according to ...

Fulton County's courthouse, where a rape defendant killed a judge and three others and escaped four years ago, still doesn't have a security plan as the law requires.

UPDATE 6/17: The DeKalb District Attorney's Office is looking into allegations of cheating on the CRCT.

A full-grown alligator was discovered lurking in the waters of the Chattahoochee River near a Fulton County park Thursday.

DeKalb County authorities are investigating whether to bring criminal charges against two elementary school administrators accused of changing answers on Georgia standardized tests.

A police investigator said a teenager accused in the June 2 shooting death of his mother, a Ringgold native, called the killing "an adrenaline rush." Detective Frank Trammer of the Sandy Springs Police Department said at a probable cause hearing Wednesday that investigators were stunned at the jovial attitude displayed by 18-year-old Alexander ...

An alligator is feasting, fat, and probably not so festive as it prowls the banks of the Chattahoochee River underneath the I-285 bridge on Atlanta's northside.