Decatur

A Georgia man who just lost his father to COVID-19 is pleading with the public to consider his family's loss and to take this virus seriously.

As plenty of people are looking for new in-home activities, a fairly familiar hobby is finding a way to help those fighting the coronavirus.

The FBI says since January the armed suspect has targeted nearly a dozen Family Dollar stores across metro Atlanta.

The state is investigating abuse at the East Lake Early learning academy in Decatur. The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning says an employee physically abused the same toddler multiple times.

Officials have closed off two roads while crews try to repair a major water main break in Decatur.

Decatur Police are searching for two people suspected of robbing up to 5 people on Saturday. 

A suspicious white powder caused some streets in Decatur to close Thursday afternoon.

Decatur police are working to identify the man who held a young woman up at gunpoint Wednesday on Church street near Howard avenue.

Police are looking for a man accused of burglarizing an elementary school in Decatur. 

Cameras caught multiple men checking car door handles and smashing windows in the Decatur neighborhood.

A Decatur man spent much of 2019 hiking the Appalachian Trail, a New Year's resolution that he won't soon top.

Kaitlyn Kong thought she had been punched hard in the abdomen as she stood among thousands of people in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, as the new year arrived a year ago. Her best friend, standing next to her, thought Kong had been stabbed as blood poured from a wound.

Decatur High School graduate, Kennedy Segars, who was killed by a drunk driver in October 2018 was honored Friday with a special memorial song. 

A Jonesboro mother and father are hoping for the best after the birth of what they describe as a Christmastime miracle, a baby boy born extremely prematurely. Jemarius Jachin Harbor is at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Emory Decatur Hospital against some very long odds. He emerged into the world at only 21 weeks young, weighing only 13 ounces, smaller than the size of a hand on Friday December 20.

When a Decatur neighbor saw something suspicious, he used his car and quick thinking help police catch the three burglary suspects, officials said.

Georgia's oldest living citizen, 111-year-old Willie Mae Hardy, passed away Wednesday.

Police need help identifying a man accused of trying to kidnap a woman as she waited on a rideshare in Decatur.

Officers want Rico Henry on aggravated assault charges.

A 66-year-old woman was carjacked at gunpoint in the driveway of her Decatur home on November 14, according to DeKalb County Police documents. She told police she had just returned home from the bank.

The water tank that towered over Decatur for over 80 years is coming down.