I'm Craig Johnson, Atlanta editor for Patch.com. I am a longtime journalist who has written and edited for Michigan's The Detroit News, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN.com and HLNTV.com all here in Atlanta. With Patch, I cover everything going on in Georgia's largest city, including Buckhead, Midtown, Brookhaven and Decatur. I also cover Marietta, East Cobb, Smyrna. Got a story tip? Please send it my way at craig.johnson@patch.com.
DeKalb County officials say Paw Law, 57, opened fire on her daughter's fiancé. She was taken into custody Sunday at her Clarkston residence.
Police release sketch of "person of interest" in shooting death of Ja’Carlos Jefferies, 19, who was gunned down outside a grocery in July.
Burglary suspect says Naruto books were "teaching him to be a ninja and how to enter secured areas," Dunwoody police say.
Conyers Officer catches someone riding away from Walmart in one of their motorized carts. “Not Today,” police say on social media.
Petition seeks to replace Columbus Day In Atlanta with Indigenous People’s Day.
The event, called CRASE (Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events), will take place from 5:30 p.m. Monday at Marietta High School.
Police said Sunday afternoon that part of Church Street in Marietta was back open after flooding closed it earlier.
How clean is your favorite restaurant, bar or tavern in Cobb County?
Darius Jarrell Dunn, 25, an associate with the Gangster Disciples, was convicted of gunning down a man during an armed robbery.
The family of a patient suffering from dementia put a camera in her room and allegedly caught Paulette Smith stealing cash from a purse.
A fugitive wanted in the shootings of two people, one of them fatally, was arrested Friday at a bus stop in Lithonia, authorities said.
Look inside some of the top homes on the market across Georgia, along with some of the latest listings closer to home.
Cobb officer paid for a homeless man's meal in Austell then did something even more amazing.
Two brothers who gunned down a man at a southwest Atlanta gas station are sentenced to 45 years, Fulton DA says.
Daily performance art will take place around Atlanta to highlight Domestic Violence Month in October.
Week 8’s high school football games include Cross Keys vs. North Springs, Cross Keys vs. Lovett and more.
Week 6's high school football games include Campbell vs. Pebblebrook, Marietta vs. Kennesaw Mountain and more.
Week 8's high school football games include Therrell vs. South Atlanta, North Atlanta vs. Copper Basin and more.
Police are looking for man, believed to be an Uber driver, who stabbed another near Mercedes-Benz Stadium after Sunday's Falcons game.
Harrison R. Kristofak, 22, of Carrollton was arrested Sept. 30 after a Marietta officer found a rotting puppy in his car.
