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DUNWOODY, Ga. — Five teens were arrested for breaking into over a dozen cars at both a hospital parking lot and apartment complex early Thursday morning, Dunwoody Police said. Police said 16 cars were broken into at Peachford Hospital and Sterling of Dunwoody apartment complex along Peachford Road. Four...

ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. — On Tuesday afternoon the Dekalb County Police Department received an alert about a stolen vehicle out of North Carolina. Once officers caught up to the vehicle, a pursuit was initiated that ended up on I-20 east heading towards Rockdale County. The Rockdale County Sheriff's Office...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — DeKalb County court records show 27 people have now been arrested as part of a criminal case connected to protests at the future site of the City of Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. In arrest warrants, investigators are referring to a protest movement against the...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The Gainesville Police Department announced in a Facebook post that they have arrested the man who is accused of robbing a Regions Bank Tuesday. Officers were called to the bank on Shallowford Road at 11:15 a.m. where they learned the 36-year-old allegedly brandished a gun while robbing the bank.

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — A man was arrested Thursday after police said he was driving under the influence and crashed with an explosive device in the trunk of his car. Cartersville Police Department were called to North Erwin Street near Cassville Road just before 8 a.m. to help with a crash. Police said the driver of a car was then arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of drugs and possession of a controlled substance. When they found the explosive, they called for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

KENNESAW, Ga. — Police are working to find out who attacked a Kennesaw State University student outside his off-campus apartment over the weekend. The student, Jalique Rosemond, who is Black, said two young white men he had never seen before rushed at him, beat him and called him racial slurs.

ATLANTA — Georgia's top insurance official is searching for a 21-year-old woman his office said sells fake insurance policies under the company name Dirt-Cheap Insurance. Oluwatosin Oyediran, of Ellenwood, is wanted on charges of insurance fraud and theft by deception, according to a news release from Georgia's Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Office. Regulators said the latest accusations against her are tied to a Douglas County case.

ATLANTA — Police are investigating after a man was shot in his leg outside an Atlanta restaurant. At around 11 p.m., Atlanta police were called to 394 Cleveland Ave. SW, which according to Google maps, is the address of Walter's Soul Food Cafe. When officers arrived, they found a...

ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. — Rockdale County Sheriff's Office deputies are asking for the public's help in finding a missing 16-year-old boy. Deputies said that Jackson Tabb was last seen at his home on Weatherstone Circle SE in Conyers on Tuesday morning around 6 a.m. Tabb is 5-feet 8-inches tall,...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Gainesville Police Department investigators are looking for a suspect wanted in connection to an armed robbery at a bank Tuesday morning. Authorities said the man, pictured below, entered the Regions Bank on Shallowford Road around 11:15 a.m. Police said the man then held up a gun and demanded money. He left with an undisclosed amount of cash, authorities said, adding that no injuries were reported.

ATLANTA — Editor's note: The video in this story is from a previous report. Atlanta Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in connection to a man's shooting death back in October. The shooting happened in a residential area just a quarter of a mile...

COWETA COUNTY, Ga. — The second victim in a double shooting last week in Coweta County has died, the sheriff's office said Monday. The Coweta County Sheriff's Office has not yet identified the victim. Following the shooting, he was initially described as a male who had been shot in the head.

ATLANTA — Authorities are looking to identify two people they believe could be responsible for recent fires at Atlanta Walmart and Target stores. Photos shared by the Atlanta Fire Department show a heavy set Black man with an orange ski cap and reflective construction vest at a Walmart on Martin Luther King Jr Drive in Vine City.

EAST POINT, Ga. — Police are asking for the public's help locating a 14-year-old girl, according to a Facebook post from the Clayton County Police Department. Ronique Shuler, 14, was last seen at an apartment near Washington Road in East Point. Law enforcement in that area said she is known to be in Clayton County.

BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — Police in Brookhaven said four men were shot at an apartment complex Sunday morning and one is dead. They said a party was being held at the apartment during the overnight hours and into the morning. They got the call around 10:35 a.m. It happened along...

ATLANTA — The family of a 13-year-old boy is planning his funeral after he was shot and killed outside a skating rink in southwest Atlanta over the weekend. Deshon DuBose's family told 11Alive he was an innocent bystander of gun violence. Words of remembrance in chalk line the outside...

GRIFFIN, Ga. — Two weeks after tornadoes devastated Spalding County, a national nonprofit brought some tail-wagging friends to Griffin-Spalding County Schools to help brighten students' day Thursday. HOPE Animal-Assisted Crisis Response brought three specially-trained dogs to three schools to help lift the spirits of children who are living in...

ATLANTA — A person was shot Monday afternoon in the parking deck of a busy shopping plaza, police said. Cobb County Police were called to the shooting just before 12:30 p.m. at 3101 Cobb Parkway, where they found a person shot in the garage behind the Taco Mac restaurant and the Main Event family entertainment center.

BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — The City of Brookhaven has selected a new Deputy Chief of Police. Major Jerry A. Lewis Jr. will take on his new role starting on Jan. 30. Lewis is retiring from the DeKalb County Police Department after a 28-year career in law enforcement, a release stated.

NORCROSS, Ga. — One man is dead after he was fatally shot following what police described as a domestic dispute at a Gwinnett County apartment complex on Sunday evening. Around 6:10 p.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot at the Canopy Glen apartment complex in Norcross. When they got there, police said they saw a man who was dead from a gunshot wound.