For Jodine Dorce, the good news from Haiti came three days after the earthquake struck. The East Point resident was elated that her family was safe.

A north Fulton County subdivision was partially evacuated before daybreak Monday after lightning from the strong storms that raked metro Atlanta struck a home.

A patchwork of often-vague local policies governs how much counties and cities do to help homeowners in subdivisions when a storm drain or other anti-flooding element fails.

There are five men running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, but only one of them is named Roy Barnes.

Play Altlanta and Portland next time they play, Da man or who ever is in charge of this whole sports betting empire knows he has offically got about 70% of betters ready to bet against them next time because 90% of us got screwed and there for we are …

The Atlanta Hawks will continue their four-game road trip out west this evening, when they take on the Golden State Warriors at ORACLE Arena. Atlanta fell to 1-1 on the trip after Friday’s 88-80 loss at Phoenix, as Josh Smith and Joe Johnson scored …

PHOENIX(AP) Amare Stoudemire scored 22 points for his ninth straight game over 20 to lead the Phoenix Suns to an 88-80 victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night. Grant Hill added 16 points for the Suns, who used a 13-0 run in the fourth quarter …

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — In past years, Billy Wagner got Bobby Cox’s attention by writing a message on a baseball and rolling it across the field into the Atlanta Braves’ dugout. Cox said Saturday the messages from Wagner would be something like …

The 12-year-old animal, named Lima, was exercising outside a downtown arena in preparation for an evening show when something spooked him, said Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus spokeswoman Crystal Drake. The zebra broke away from his …

DeKalb fire officials are investigating what may have caused a blaze that has reportedly destroyed a Lithonia home.

One day, Margaret Conner brought home a dog for her son Owen. But Patrick, an Irish setter, became her dog, not his.

Two people were killed in Gwinnett County Sunday morning when their speeding car ran off I-985 into the woods and burst into flames, police said.