3+ week, 5+ day ago   (682+ words) Starting next summer, Georgia’s highest court will no longer routinely hear appeals in murder cases. Under Georgia law, the state’s high court has jurisdiction over all capital cases — that is, cases where the death penalty has been imposed. But the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (294+ words) Georgia Southern University Director of Health and Wellness Gemma Skuraton will receive $250,000 in a settled lawsuit after she was fired from the college in 2025 for opposing rollbacks to LGBTQ+ rights on campus. According to the lawsuit, more conservative leadership took…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (213+ words) Smith for financial transaction card fraud. ATHENS, Ga. — UGA is telling students to stay in groups as police...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (626+ words) A Florida man will spend 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in connection with a Ponzi scheme that bilked more than 2,000 investors out of about $380 million. U.S. District Judge Tiffany R. Johnson sentenced Todd Burkhalter, 55, to the maximum allowed in federal…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (274+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Georgia marked the second anniversary of the deadly 2024 Apalachee High School shooting as Apalachee Remembrance Day while drawing calls for state leaders to move beyond commemorations and enact measures to prevent another tragedy. “Two years…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (376+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta A Gwinnett County mother accused of leaving her infant son in a hot car while she worked is out of jail, over prosecutors’ objections that she remains a danger to her two surviving children. Deja…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (350+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Fulton County continues negotiations to purchase the Atlanta City Detention Center after Fulton County Commissioner Rob Pitts said Wednesday that the parties have agreed on a price. The City of Atlanta and Fulton County have…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (499+ words) The family of the man accused of stabbing and killing someone on the Atlanta Beltline on Sunday has issued an apology on his behalf. Johnathan Hamby, 54, is accused of stabbing 29-year-old Ramon Harris in the neck, killing him on Sunday…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (298+ words) Several Jewish households in metro Atlanta have received unsolicited letters claiming that their families may be eligible for Holocaust reparations, which Jewish groups have strongly condemned. Sally Levine, executive director of the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust, and Stacy Hydrick,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (383+ words) Atlanta Police Academy trainee Moses Russ, 24, died Sept. 1 in a motorcycle crash in Southeast Atlanta. The incident occurred at Moreland Avenue and McDonough Boulevard, while Russ was on his way to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Russ was pronounced…...