The Latest Breaking News from Gwinnett County

ATLANTA — Dozens of local and state leaders gathered Tuesday to unveil about 30 banners thanking former President Jimmy Carter on a busy thoroughfare that bears his name in Gwinnett County.

Gwinnett County, Georgia, sheriff's office Master Deputy Walter Pollock has been charged by the Georgia State Patrol with DUI, failure to maintain lane and striking a fixed object. Pollock reportedly struck several mailboxes with his patrol vehicle. He was on duty at the time. The sheriff's office has placed him…

ATLANTA — The Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the organization’s Lawrenceville chapter and two individual members re-filed a lawsuit this month against Gwinnett County over the removal of a Confederate monument from the Lawrenceville square.

ATLANTA — A former Doraville police officer accused of kidnapping and killing a 16-year-old Gwinnett County student was indicted Wednesday on murder and other charges, court records show.

ATLANTA — Investigators aren’t sure how or why a Gwinnett County teenager was killed. But they feel certain a former police officer is responsible.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A few moments after former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley gave a rousing endorsement of Herschel Walker’s ill-fated U.S. Senate campaign in Gwinnett County, she offered a reminder of her own political ambitions.

ATLANTA — Black is the only color Gwinnett County student Taylor Jones wears to school.

Some booming suburbs, many of them in the Sun Belt, are becoming as racially diverse as major coastal cities — and often with less racial conflict.

ATLANTA — An auditor from Gwinnett County who was falsely accused of election fraud in the film “2000 Mules” is suing the movie’s makers, Dinesh D’Souza and True the Vote, alleging they lied to advance a phony narrative at his expense.

ATLANTA — At a recent campaign rally in Gwinnett County, Herschel Walker walked in like the conquering hero he has been since 1980.

ATLANTA — At the conclusion of a Herschel Walker campaign event in Gwinnett County last month, Republican voter Claire Harrison used a football term — “flood the zone” — to describe what is taking place at the southern U.S. border, one of the issues that most animates her in the…