Permit filings point to a potential Meta Lab at Lenox Square in Buckhead, though no official confirmation has been released.

OSHA cited a Bowdon Piggly Wiggly after a meat‑department worker lost four fingers while cleaning a grinder; proposed penalties total $196,251. The agency found bypassed guards and no lockout program.

Patchy fog this morning will give way to likely afternoon thunderstorms. Expect heavy downpours and a localized flooding risk during the afternoon commute.

LaGrange police deployed about 40 officers on Friday in a targeted sweep across four neighborhoods, making 31 arrests and seizing one firearm during the operation.

A 19‑year‑old from Jonesboro drowned at Panther Creek Falls; authorities recovered his body from a deep pool and called the death accidental.

A house party in Covington turned violent Saturday evening; two people were shot and one was seriously injured, deputies say.

Police and the medical examiner were at a Johns Creek home Monday as authorities investigate a death in the 5300 block of North Hillbrooke Trace.

Deputies in Taylor County say they tracked down suspects after a metal roof was stripped from a vacant Reynolds home; one man is in custody and more arrests are expected.

A Walker County jury convicted James Franklin Frazier in May on multiple child-sex charges; he was sentenced to life with the first 70 years to be served in state prison.

An East Cobb lab operator was indicted after state investigators say his company billed more than $300,000 to Medicaid for tests that lacked physician orders.

A couple in Dallas, Ga., is receiving rabies post‑exposure treatment after an adopted dog from the Cedartown shelter tested positive; their other pets are quarantined. Authorities are investigating.

Lee County deputies say a May 27 traffic stop turned up about 102 vacuum‑sealed pounds of marijuana; a 35‑year‑old Atlanta woman was charged with trafficking and DUI.

A Walton County construction worker was struck and killed on SR 81 near Ozora Church Road; troopers say a 16-year-old driver was unhurt and an investigation is ongoing.