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Byline: Asia Simone Burns and Justin Price | asia.burns@ajc.com, justin.price@ajc.com Jimmy Shackelford had just turned his white pickup onto a curvy stretch of road in Milledgeville. Up ahead, he saw [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns GWINNETT COUNTY Nearly a dozen supervisors and squad commanders stood huddled outside the Gwinnett County Justice and Administration Complex in Lawrenceville early Saturday morning, poring over [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns UNDER THE GOLD DOME Georgia Democratic lawmakers are pushing for legislation they believe would help protect employees who have reported workplace harassment from retaliation at the [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns COBB COUNTY A man was convicted of murder as a Cobb County jury determined he helped a woman with whom he was romantically involved kill her [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns PENITENTIARY SMUGGLING CASE Two inmates and a Bureau of Prisons employee have been indicted and accused of conspiring to smuggle contraband into a federal prison in [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS When a 16-year-old allegedly fled a traffic stop in Columbus and pulled out a gun when confronted by police, an officer pulled the trigger [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns ATLANTA Within months of his brothers death, Jake Shorters family was sent reeling again when the 30-year-old was found dead in Atlanta after a monthslong search [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns CLAYTON COUNTY Less than 24 hours after an 11-year-old was fatally shot in Clayton County, police arrested a 12-year-old they say was involved in the death. [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns EDUCATION A 16-year-old student was arrested Thursday after threatening to do harm at a Forsyth County high school, becoming the latest in a slew of recent [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns For more than three months, the family of an 18-year-old football player who died in an elevator collapse in an Atlanta apartment complex has sought a [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns GWINNETT COUNTY& A father was taken into custody Monday following an hourslong SWAT situation after he barricaded himself and his baby inside a unit at a [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns CONTINUING COVERAGE AHMAUD ARBERY CASE BRUNSWICK In the jury box and throughout the courthouse gallery where the trial over Ahmaud Arberys death is taking place, tension [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns AHMAUD ARBERY CASE In the jury box, one panelist shielded her view with her notebook, unable to watch a graphic video of police body camera video [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns COBB COUNTY A suspect has been arrested days after a mans body was found decomposing inside a dumpster in Cobb County. Authorities on Tuesday arrested 52-year-old [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns A woman died within hours of tumbling out of a moving car in Buckhead late Sunday, and police are working to determine if she was pushed [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns TOP LOCAL STORY CRIME A suspect was captured a day after a Middle Georgia police officer was shot and killed outside the police station where he [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns ATLANTA Attorneys for the family of an 18-year-old student-athlete killed in an elevator collapse in Atlanta say that although the teenager was buried nearly a month [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns TOP LOCAL STORY ELEVATOR DEATH As state regulators continue to investigate a Midtown apartment complex where an elevator collapse killed an 18-year-old, the state fire marshal [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns CONTINUING COVERAGE ELEVATOR DEATH A Midtown Atlanta apartment building that was cited following an 18-year-olds death in an elevator collapse last month now faces additional fines [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns Atlanta police are searching for a man they say went to a womans house in Buckhead disguised as a flower deliveryman and then attacked her when [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns TOP LOCAL STORY CRIME Less than an hour after a woman told police a suspect had used a bow and arrow to carjack her in Midtown [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns TOP LOCAL STORY DUNWOODY Atlanta Gas Light crews returned to the Arrive Perimeter apartment complex Tuesday, more than two weeks after an explosion damaged a building [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns GWINNETT Two men were killed in two separate shootings that happened within one hour in Gwinnett County on Sunday morning. Police said a man died after [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns MARIETTA asia.burns@ajc.com A 4-year-old and 2-yearold were treated for gunshot wounds after the elder child found an unattended gun in a Marietta apartment Monday and fired [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns LAWSUITS Videos taken during an outdoor wedding at a Buckhead hotel provide new insight into the frightening moment a powerful storm ripped down the tent over [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns CONTINUING COVERAGE DUNWOODY EXPLOSION A Dunwoody apartment complex where an explosion took place Sunday had appliance and fuel line issues within the building, Atlanta Gas Light [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns TOP LOCAL STORY DUNWOODY BLAST Four people were hurt and countless others were left shaken when an explosion occurred at a Dunwoody apartment complex Sunday, according [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns TOP LOCAL STORY SHOOTING An argument outside an Atlanta convenience store spiraled into a triple shooting that left a woman dead early Sunday morning, according to [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns The family of an 18-yearold athlete who died in an elevator collapse at a Midtown apartment building has opened a formal investigation to try to figure [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns JauMarcus McFarland had a heart for football. With a towering stature 6 feet 2, just shy of 300 pounds he was hungry to improve himself in [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns TOP LOCAL STORY ELEVATOR DEATH A local student-athlete died Tuesday after an elevator at a northeast Atlanta apartment complex collapsed, pinning him between two floors. Jaumarcus [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns POLICE SHOOTINGS& State investigators are looking into three separate shootings involving law enforcement officers that happened within a 10-hour span Sunday including two within a mile [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns A man was in critical condition after a police officer who saw him wielding a metal pipe shot him early Sunday morning in Midtown, authorities said. [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns DEKALB COUNTY A 32-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being convicted of fatally shooting his friend at point-blank range. A [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns CONTINUING COVERAGE CRIME Three men were fatally shot in a southwest Atlanta parking lot not far from Atlanta police headquarters early Sunday, just hours after detectives [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns A man died late Saturday after he was found shot inside a car in Atlanta, police said. Officers found the man suffering from a gunshot wound [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns A North Georgia postal worker was shot to death on Saturday while he was delivering mail on his morning route, officials said. The suspected gunman in [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns A pregnant woman and a child were among those killed early Sunday in Clayton County when their car was hit head-on by another driver who was [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns One person was killed and another was injured when gunfire erupted at a gathering in northwest Atlanta early Sunday. An Atlanta police officer returned fire when [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns COBB COUNTY The woman arrested in connection with the death of a toddler whose body was pulled from the Chattahoochee River earlier this month was the [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns ATLANTA Atlanta police have arrested three people on child abuse charges after a video emerged last month appearing to show a young boy being hit and [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns TOP LOCAL STORY POLICE OFFICER& A west Georgia police officer walked out of a metro Atlanta rehabilitation center Wednesday morning, more than three months after he [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns A 14-year-old boy was killed and two other teens were injured Saturday evening after a massive brawl ended in gunfire in Atlanta, authorities said. A 17-year-old [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns LOCAL IN-DEPTH SHOOTINGS Three people were rushed to a hospital early Sunday after an attempted robbery ended in gunfire near State Farm Arena, Atlanta police said. [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns CRIMEAtlanta police were called to investigate three separate shootings within as many hours overnight Friday, the agency said. The first shooting happened about 10 p.m. Friday [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns ATLANTA Taniyah Pilgrim said shes still in pain both physically and emotionally after she and another Atlanta college student were shocked with Tasers and arrested by [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns TOP LOCAL STORY CRIME Big Bear Supermarket was closed for business Tuesday, but its doors were open for those who came by to grieve and lament [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns DEKALB A man suspected in a double shooting at a DeKalb County supermarket Monday that left a cashier dead and a retired sheriffs deputy injured has [...]

Byline: Asia Simone Burns The search for the suspect in the shooting of a Cobb County police officer ended Sunday evening with the mans shooting death. No officers were injured [...]