Decatur

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.

A contractor was killed in a double shooting at a motel in DeKalb County, according to police.

Thirty goats and two sheep are help clear weeds around the Agnes Scott campus.

Robert Olsen is accused of killing Air Force and Afghanistan War veteran Anthony Hill at an apartment complex in 2015.

A DeKalb county mom has quite the story to tell after giving birth outside her car in front of Emory Decatur Hospital on September 18.

It has taken four and a half years but Monday jury selection begins in the murder trial of Robert Olsen.