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An explosion broke out at an apartment complex in a northern suburb of Atlanta Sunday afternoon, trapping people inside and causing at least one person to suffer severe burns. The Dunwoody police department said it received multiple calls just before 1:30 p.m. regarding an explosion at the Arrive Apartments off …

Ten people killed in a two-vehicle crash in Alabama that appeared to be linked to the weather, says official.

A flight en route from Los Angeles to Atlanta was diverted for an emergency landing when a passenger attacked two flight attendants and threatened to bring down the plane, authorities said. The incident late Friday took place at a time when more Americans are taking to the airways than at …

John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement and long-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives, died on Friday. Lewis, a member of Congress from Atlanta who had announced in December that he had advanced pancreatic cancer, was 80. “He loved this country so much that he risked …

At least 36 people have been arrested in Atlanta, the Atlanta Police spokesman said. Police fired tear gas at protesters and shut down an interstate as a Wendy’s where an Atlanta police officer shot and killed a black man was set on fire. One of the officers involved in the …

A man was killed after reportedly being shot by an Atlanta police officer late Friday night, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. At 10:33 p.m. local time officers responded to a Wendy’s restaurant after receiving a complaint that a man was asleep in a parked car in the drive-thru, …

A video of National Guardsmen in Georgia rocking out to a ubiquitous dance song from the 90s has caused discomfort among observers, who have described the gimmick as a way of making military-enforced curfews more palatable. A line of soldiers was spotted dancing the Macarena in downtown Atlanta just minutes …

Hundreds of demonstrators poured into the streets near Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park on Friday night, smashing windows and clashing with police officers in a protest that grew so tense that the city’s mayor forcefully told people to go home. Not far from the park, the city’s iconic tourist destination, some …