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ATLANTA Atlanta City Councilmember Kwanza Hall is inviting dogs and dog owners to join him for a walk on the Atlanta BeltLine this Saturday, June 19, at 8:45 a.m., concluding with a "significant announcement" by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Atlanta BeltLine officials.

Metro Atlanta hotel occupancy continued to improve in the first four months of the year, rising 4 percent compared to the same period a year ago, hospitality officials said Wednesday.

Police in Smyrna are asking the public to help them identify three people in connection with the discovery Tuesday of a body in the woods.

How do you teach a gorilla to like his doctor? That's what officials at Zoo Atlanta are trying to do after a 360-pound gorilla slammed his fists into a barrier, cracking the glass and prompting the evacuation of a viewing area.

The body of former Calhoun Police Officer Sgt. Wayne Willard will arrive in Calhoun today.

Like many other cities in America, graffiti is a part of Atlanta life. Now, a pair of Atlantans are using their graffiti to send a message about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the video has already begun to go viral.

Former Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears has been elected to Emory University's Board of Trustees, the Atlanta school announced Tuesday.

Atlanta police said a man was shot and killed at an Atlanta tattoo shop Tuesday night.

One of the stars of the hit Tony Award Nominated stage play "My Grandmother Prayed for Me, Benita A. Rudolph will introduce herself to the Atlanta Gospel Community with two televised shows and a special live performance in June.

If you see zombies staggering around Grant Park PANIC. No, don't. Crews are in town filming the new AMC series "The Walking Dead," a zombie-drama based on the eponymous series of comic books by Robert Kirkman.

Jasmiyah Whitefield's defense strategy began to take shape Monday morning during an unsuccessful bond hearing in Rockdale County Superior Court.

The hemoglobin A1C test is supposed to give doctors a sense of diabetics' long-term blood sugar levels, but new research suggests the test may have different results depending on race, even if daily blood sugar levels are the same.

DeKalb County's judges, sheriff and prosecutors are threatening to sue CEO Burrell Ellis if he fails to adequately fund the court system.

Irish poet Eamon Grennan is placing his literary papers at Emory University's library in Atlanta.

A building at Zoo Atlanta was evacuated Sunday after a gorilla charged at a glass barrier and cracked it.

A building at Atlanta Zoo was evacuated Sunday after a gorilla charged at a glass barrier and cracked it.

The Monday afternoon crash that stalled traffic on I-20 west of downtown Atlanta claimed the life of an 8-year-old girl and injured several of her siblings.

Psychologists say cognitive-behavioral therapy can reduce physical symptoms and improve coping strategies involved with inflammatory bowel disease.

A fight between two rival gangs ended in the death of a 23-year-old Gainesville man, the Gainesville Times reports.

Zoo Atlanta officials said they closed the gorilla exhibit after a 20-year-old male silver back gorilla charged a glass barrier resulting in cracks in the panel.