News outlets say Atlanta Motor Speedway and the Atlanta Braves are offering free services to residents from mandatory evacuation areas throughout Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

Four college students were wounded when a gunman opened fire into a crowd of 200 people outside a library near Clark Atlanta University and then escaped in the chaos, authorities said.

Atlanta will soon add lessons about the South's racist history on markers placed next to four historic monuments.

A child was injured after he took a wild ride down a conveyor belt at an Atlanta airport earlier this week, CBS affiliate WGCL-TV reports. Surveillance video released by Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport shows the boy climbing onto the bag belt before being found by employees.

Atlanta's city council has approved a far-reaching ban on smoking and vaping in restaurants and bars — and inside one of the world's busiest airports.

Officials in South Carolina say a person has been killed by a fallen tree amid heavy winds sweeping across the Southeast.

Ten students at an Atlanta-area elementary school suffered non-life threatening injuries after being shot by a BB or pellet gun while on the playground.

A South Carolina university student who died while attending a fraternity event was drinking alcohol when she told her boyfriend she didn't feel well, collapsed and died.

Police have arrested a man they say was driving the car that hit and seriously injured a 9-year-old girl playing in her front yard in suburban Atlanta.