JONES COUNTY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Four people were sentenced in Jones County in cases involving crimes against children and family violence, according to the Ocmulgee District Attorney's Office. Jonathan Wright pleaded guilty to 20 counts of sexual exploitation of children and was sentenced to 50 years, with 18 years to serve in prison. Accordin...

The Brief An autopsy revealed Shanteria "KT" Mosley was shot in the head, according to Smyrna police.Kingston Bradley, 18, was arrested after police found Mosley's remains in a plastic tub and a car trunk.Court records and police updates outline how a missing person call led to the discovery at a Smyrna apartment complex. SMYRNA, Ga. - An autopsy r...

SMYRNA, Ga- Police are investigating after a woman's dismembered torso was found in a container at a Georgia apartment complex. Police are investigating after a woman's dismembered torso was found inside a container at a Georgia apartment complex Wednesday. An 18-year-old man identified as a person of interest is in custody, police said Friday...

A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on "American Idol" was set to be sentenced Monday after a jury convicted him of murdering his wife while he was having an affair. Prosecutors said Caleb Flynn, 40, staged a home invasion in February after shooting his wife, Ashley Flynn, a 37-year-old schoolteacher and volleyball coach. Flynn claimed she...

Arthur M. Blank U.S. Soccer National Training Center U.S. Soccer Federation

Story Highlights The Arthur M. Blank U.S. Soccer National Training Center opens in May 2026.Arthur Blank contributed $50 million toward the $250 million project in Fayetteville.200-acre campus will house U.S. Soccer's 27 national teams and facilities. As Atlanta prepares to host eight games in the 2026 FIFA World Cup series, the Arthur M. Blank U.S...

Bankruptcy filings were elevated in 2025. Numbers continued to rise to start 2026. Getty Images (carterdayne)

  Bankruptcy filings — whether for businesses or individuals — have surged this year, reports A.J. O'Leary of the Birmingham Business Journal. GET YEAR-ROUND ADVERTISING EXPOSURE IN THE BOOK OF LISTS! Be top of mind for decision-makers in this trusted, high-impact publication. Chapter 11 bankruptcies — when companies can restructure without di...

Justin Fairfax in 2019. He served as Virginia’s lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022.Credit...Parker Michels-Boyce for The New York Times

Mr. Fairfax, a Democrat, served as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022. The couple's children were home at the time, the police said, and their son called 911.  Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia, fatally shot his wife, Cerina Fairfax, and then killed himself at their home in Annandale, Va., shortly after midnight on Th...

When foundations call hunger “food insecurity,” the focus moves from feeding people to tallying the number of “food insecure” households — a shift from action to observation.

How soft euphemisms turn the suffering of millions into an abstraction stripped of emotion or urgency. Plus, examples of straight talk that will rally supporters.  When the government shutdown left 42 million people without food assistance last week, nonprofits stepped in to help, as they always do. Across the country, community foundations, c...

The Brief Family and friends believe Elaijia Whitley was killed in a domestic violence incident involving her partner.Police found Whitley shot inside her car outside her job but have not identified a suspect or motive.Loved ones held a pink balloon release, remembering Whitley as kindhearted and ambitious with dreams of working in medicine. GWINNE...

Cecil McCrary arrested in connection with his girlfriend's murder.

The Brief The Brief Cecil McCrary, 56, confessed to killing his girlfriend Tange Davis and burying her body in Atlanta.Davis was reported missing by her son after she hadn't been heard from since Thursday.Police said McCrary was already out on pretrial release for kidnapping and aggravated assault charges. COBB COUNTY, Ga. - A man has been arrested...

Sanbrina Walker

The Brief The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Sabrina Walker, 56, was shot outside her Douglasville home Saturday night by her husband, Volanta Lejuan Walker, after an argument.Sunday would have been Sabrina's 57th birthday and the grand opening of her business, Groomsmen Atlanta.Family members described her as passionate about her work as a h...

Howie Rubin attends the Center for Comprehensive Health Practice- Early Childhood Development Center Gala at The Pierre Hotel on April 25, 2013 in New York City. Mireya Acierto/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

Rubin allegedly had a sex "dungeon" and recruited ex-Playboy models. A retired investment banker was arrested Friday at his Connecticut home on federal charges he trafficked women for sex acts in luxury hotels and at a Manhattan apartment converted into a sex dungeon with BDSM equipment, according to a federal indictment. Howie Rubin, 70, and his f...

Teasha Ariele Colbert, 42 founddead

MACON, Ga. — A dead body was found stuffed in a trash can in the Sanford Arms Apartments, behind the CVS on Gray Highway on Thursday morning, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said. The Bibb County Sheriff's Office Deputies went to the apartments to investigate a report of a missing person, according to a release. When they got there, they say deputie...

Mazi's mother

A Georgia woman has been arrested months after her 7-year-old son died when his head became trapped in a car window in Atlanta. The Atlanta Police Department said Kandice Grace, 32, of Milledgeville, was taken into custody Sept. 29 on charges of second-degree murder and second-degree cruelty to children. She was booked into the Fulton County Jail a...

David Anthony Burke, professionally known as “d4vd

Who was Celeste Rivas, the missing teen found dead in singer d4vd's Tesla? The LAPD identified the body of a girl in the car of Romantic Homicide singer d4vd. She went missing in 2024, aged 13. A decomposing body found in the boot of American singer d4vd's impounded Tesla by police on September 8 was identified by the Los Angeles Police Department ...

6 children found locked in Milwaukee storage unit

Police in Wisconsin found six children inside a Milwaukee storage unit on Tuesday in a situation they have described as child neglect or abuse. The children found in the storage locker just after 1:30 a.m. were ages 9, 7, 5, 3, 2 and 2 months. The children were locked in the storage unit but uninjured, and police arrested a 26-year-old woman and a ...

The house in Muskogee, Okla., where the 11-year-old lived where children were exposed to unstable and unsanitary conditions. © Isabel Flores

The grandmother of an 11-year-old girl who gave birth last month at her family's Oklahoma home was charged after prosecutors alleged she knew about the pregnancy and failed to report it to authorities. Michelle Justus, the maternal grandmother of the child, was charged with six counts of felony child neglect, according to the Muskogee County Distri...

Johns Creek police officers responded to a home off Glen Castle Court in the St. Ives Country Club for a welfare check on Sunday afternoon.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Three people are dead, including a young teen, in what police believe was a murder-suicide. Johns Creek police officers responded to a home off Glen Castle Court in the St. Ives Country Club for a welfare check on Sunday afternoon. The deceased have been identified as James Choi, 52, Myoung Choi, 52, and 15-year-...

The bodies of Paityn Decker, 9, left, and her sisters, Evelyn, 8, and Olivia, 5, were found near a campground in Washington State on Monday.Credit...Wenatchee Police Department

The bodies of the girls, ages 5, 8 and 9, were found near a campground on Monday. They had apparently been asphyxiated, the police said. The police in central Washington State on Tuesday stepped up their search for a man who they say killed his three young daughters and left them near a campground, where each body was found with a plastic bag over ...

Diddy on Trial May 2025

Sean "Diddy" Combs' ex-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, has told the hip-hop mogul's sex-trafficking trial that he controlled her life and coerced her into "humiliating" sex acts. The prosecution's star witness testified about the alleged physical and emotional abuse she endured at the hands of the rapper during so-called "freak-offs", or sexual encou...