Fairburn News

Ruth McCommon is quick to correct someone who asks her how she got the idea for The Healing Bridge Clinic.

A future water source for the city of Palmetto is in jeopardy following a Friday ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Thrash that effectively halts land acquisition and construction of a major south Fulton County reservoir designed to supply water to Palmetto, Fairburn and Union City.

The overnight murder of a repo man in south Fulton County prompts a manhunt for a suspected killer.

Police have located the car of the man accused of fatally shooting one repo man early Thursday morning and critically injuring another.

Police are searching for a homeowner they say opened fire on two men trying to repossess his car.

In an unprecedented move last Tuesday, Fairburn City Councilman Mario Avery defeated Mayor Betty Hannah for her seat beginning in January 2010.

The search for a missing Fairburn woman endedThursday night. Investigators said Deniecia Lester, a mother of three was found safe.

I was born and raised in the Deep South, specifically in Fairburn, Georgia, a small town approximately 25 miles southwest of Atlanta.

The mother of a teenage boy who had a sexual relationship with his bus driver spoke exclusively with Channel 2 Action News reporter Jodie Fleischer.

A 22-year-old Fulton County school bus driver faces a misdemeanor sexual assault charge involving allegations she had an inappropriate relationship with a student.

CBS Atlanta learned Wednesday that Fulton County school officials fired a school bus driver after she was accused of having sex with a teenager.

In a special called meeting last Thursday, the Fairburn City Council voted to turn over to the citya s police department the investigation responsibilities of an alleged misuse by a sitting council member of her city charge card, known as the P Card.

Napoleon on Horseback The great French military strategist and political leader Napoleon once said that "an army marches on its stomach." This is as true today as it was when Napoleon's troops were marching toward Moscow.

Thursday marked the five-month anniversary of the May 15 plane crash in Beauregard, Ala., that claimed the lives of 56-year-old Judge Sanford "Sammy" Jones -- a Fulton County juvenile court judge -- and 19-year-old Sasha Medina, of Newnan.

Between Friday, Oct. 2, and Thursday, Oct. 8, the Lamar County sheriff's office made 14 arrests: A Jerome Cary Daniel, 29, Thomaston, possession of methamphetamines with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana and possession of drug related objects; James Alvin Barrett, 39, Thomaston, possession of meth with intent to distribute and ...

A mother is trying to find who ran over her son in Marietta 10 months ago and then sped off.

Eric Berry wants to do everything he can to beat Georgia on Saturday. Soon, however, the Tennessee junior safety will do everything he can to help out people living there.

DERONTAY ANTON LANGFORD, 34, of Fairburn, Georgia, a former detention officer at the Fulton County Jail, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Atlanta to obstructing justice by lying to a federal grand jury investigating the 2008 death of an inmate at the jail.

Tower Gallery owner and artist, Marc Lucas, stands next to a painting that is a replica of the building that the gallery is in.

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