Atlanta rapper Young Scooter died Friday following a severe leg injury he sustained while fleeing the police. He was 39. The ...

It’s part of a larger crime reduction trend for the city, year-to-date. Taken all together, the crime data for the City of ...

The officers, whose jobs were reinstated, wanted to sue former Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, former DA Paul Howard and former ...

The Atlanta Police Department reported that murders in the city are down by 16 percent compared to this time last year.

City of Atlanta departments looking to hire for vacant positions must now get special approval from the mayor’s office as the city works to cut back on spending. The hiring slowdown comes after the ...

In May 2020, during protests in Atlanta following George Floyd's death, two college students—Taniyah Pilgrim from Spelman ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A 20-year-old man died after falling 19 stories from a high-rise development in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, authorities said.

Public safety spending is the highest contributor to the overrun. The Atlanta Police Department accounts for $51.5 million, or more than half the extra spending. The city’s finance experts said that ...

A Kansas City woman is behind bars hundreds of miles away. The 3-month-old baby she is accused of refusing to return is safe, ...