Powder Springs
CRIME & SAFETY
Murder-suicide in Powder Springs sends shockwaves through close family, friends
POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. - The Powder Springs police have now identified the couple who were killed in a murder-suicide at a home on Forest Hill Road on Sunday. Family and friends of the couple say they never anticipated such a tragedy. Powder Springs Police identified the victim as 36-year-old Kalisha...
Webbie's DJ Suspected of Fatally Shooting Wife and Himself After Complaining About Working for Rapper: 'A Living Hell'
Georgia police are investigating a murder-suicide involving Webbie’s longtime DJ, Notorius Brown, who went by his stage name DJ T Gutta. According to 11 Alive, the tragedy occurred around noon on Sunday, June 9, in the Cobb County city of Powder Springs. Authorities responded to a home in the 3300 block of Forest Hill Road, where they found a man and a woman with gunshot wounds. The female victim was pronounced dead at the scene, while the male was transported to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in critical condition. He succumbed to injuries shortly after.
Mother of 12-year-old killed along Thornton Road prepares for his funeral on his birthday
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. - Douglasville police are investigating after a 12-year-old boy was struck and killed while crossing a busy road earlier this month. His family identified him as Elijah or "EJ" Holmes. They say he died just weeks before his 13th birthday. "Very helpful, truly a gentle giant," EJ's mother,...
Marietta firefighters battle flames during extreme heat wave
MARIETTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - First responders in Cobb County were busy Saturday. Their first stop being a big fire at the Metro Extended Stay hotel which displaced at least 30 people. “I’m lost for words and I don’t know what’s going to happen to me and my baby’s...
Kennesaw Man Charged With Crashing Into Cyclist in Woodstock
A Kennesaw man has been arrested and charged with hitting a cyclist with his car, the Cherokee Sheriff's Office announced. According to the sheriff's office, on Thursday afternoon deputies responded to a collision on Main Street, south of Highway 92 in Woodstock where a cyclist was hit. An initial investigation showed the cyclist was riding his bike on the sidewalk when a Lexus sedan left his lane of travel, drove...
DA says her office cannot prosecute gunman charged with hijacking Atlanta bus, killing man on board
The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office said it cannot prosecute the man accused of hijacking a bus in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday and shooting and killing someone board while putting a gun to the driver’s head and making them drive across 3 counties.
Young Thug/YSL trial: Attorney Brian Steel compares trial to 'communist Russia'
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. - Kenneth "Lil Woody" Copeland returned to the stand for Day 91 of the Young Thug/YSL trial in Fulton County. On Thursday morning, the prosecution began asking Copeland about the murder of Donovan "Big Nutt" Thomas. Thomas, 26, was shot and killed in Atlanta's Castleberry Hill neighborhood...
Chemical spill that shut down I-20 in Douglasville for hours was not hazardous, fire crews say
DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — UPDATE: Both westbound and eastbound lanes of I-20 in Douglasville have reopened following a chemical spill around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. The lanes reopened just before 9 p.m., making for a roughly four-plus hour delay. Douglas County Fire released a statement Thursday night saying that crews...
Dumpster Fire: Explosion at Cobb (GA) Transfer Station Caught on Tape
Jake Busch – Marietta Daily Journal, Ga. An explosion rocked the Cobb Waste Transfer Station around sunrise this morning, according to the county. People around County Services Parkway, where the waste management facility is located, reported hearing an explosion, and a Cobb sheriff’s deputy responding to the scene caught the explosion on the police car’s dash camera just before 6:15 a.m.
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