Georgia

Several tenants are filing a class action lawsuit after they lost belongings in an apartment fire at Reserve at LaVista Walk in Atlanta.
/ November 20, 2023
A 5-year-old girl whose body was found encased in concrete and dumped in the woods of rural southeast Georgia has been identified nearly…
/ November 14, 2023
Georgia says it will appeal a judge’s order to redraw some congressional and state legislative districts, but that it won’t fight in court…
/ November 2, 2023
Tracy Cole, the grandson of Freddy Cole, one of Nat King Cole’s three brothers, was stabbed to death in Atlanta on Sept. 14.
/ October 29, 2023
The plaintiffs argue that the actions of a conservative voting organization violated a section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act….
/ October 27, 2023
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones said he would not allow the 2024 elections to be conducted using districts he has found to be “unlawful.”
/ October 26, 2023
Nearly 3,000 students attending Atlanta’s Morehouse College will no longer be burdened by institution-owed student loan debt.
/ October 23, 2023
They are demanding answers and justice after the deaths of their loved ones, who are among 10 who died in Fulton County Jail this year.
/ October 20, 2023
Georgia soon will become the first state in the nation to offer medical marijuana products at independent pharmacies, state officials said.
/ October 8, 2023
A Black man cannot release unredacted bodycam footage of a traffic stop that led to his children being put in foster care for months.
/ September 28, 2023
Michael Lewis, one of the youngest children sentenced to a Georgia prison in 1997, is a free man after 26 years behind bars.
/ September 28, 2023
A Black man says the use of facial recognition technology by a sheriff’s detective in Louisiana led to his arrest for crimes he did not commit.
/ September 26, 2023
Kendrick Johnson’s parents have filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the Georgia Bureau of Investigation over the handling of his case.
/ September 21, 2023
Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia were attempts to curtail the growing political power of Black voters.
/ September 16, 2023
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock on Friday urged Atlanta’s mayor to be more transparent in how city officials handle a petition drive led…
/ September 15, 2023
Black residents of the Hogg Hummock community on Sapelo Island and their supporters packed a meeting of McIntosh County’s elected commissioners to oppose zoning changes that could pressure them to sell their land.
/ September 13, 2023
Descendants of enslaved people living on a Georgia island are watching anxiously Monday evening as county commissioners consider doubling the maximum size of houses that can be built in their tiny community of modest homes.
/ September 12, 2023