The Georgia Supreme Court just handed a mixed bag to supporters of keeping monuments commemorating the Confederacy on their historic courthouse lawn perches at public expense.
Though Georgia has already taken to address mental health problems, such as passing a major mental health reform law this year, still more is needed, experts say.
Hyundai Motor Group held a groundbreaking ceremony in southeast Georgia's Bryan County, at the future site of the company's first fully dedicated electric vehicle factory.
Mark Meadows, former White House chief of staff, is trying to avoid having to testify before a special grand jury investigating possible illegal interference in Georgia's 2020 election.
Georgia is seeing record early voting turnout for a midterm continue, as more than a million people cast ballots.
The history of the city of Savannah is bound to the history of slavery in the United States. Enslaved people built much of the city, which was settled in part to prevent enslaved people from South Carolina from fleeing to Florida, where Spanish colonists offered them freedom to weaken the English colonies. A new report from the Equal Justice Initiative looks at the legacy of slavery through the cities that played leading roles in promoting and enabling it.
The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the dismissal of lawsuits filed against two county governments over the removal of Confederate monuments on public property. The decline of an endangered species of whale slowed last year as it lost about two percent of its population.
“It is wrong to suggest that there is a correlation between voter turnout and voter suppression because suppression is about barriers,” Abrams said. “If those barriers are not completely successful, the credit does not go to those who erected the barriers. The credit goes to those voters who found a way to navigate, overwhelm and overcome those barriers.”
Herschel Walker campaigns for the U.S. Senate as a champion of free enterprise and advocate for the mentally ill, felons and others. Yet Walker, through a major chicken processor that he touts as a principal partner to one of his primary businesses, has benefited from years of unpaid labor by drug offenders routed to the facility by Oklahoma state courts. A pending federal lawsuit alleges that participants are denied their required treatments like those Walker touts.
Runoff from a growing number of giant solar farms polluting rivers and streams in rural South Georgia is becoming a major concern, an official with the state Environmental Protection Division said Monday.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has temporarily blocked U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham's testimony before a special grand jury investigating possible illegal interference in Georgia's 2020 election.
An advisory sent out by the Drug Enforcement Administration has some parents worried ahead of Halloween. But Georgia officials say the brightly-colored illegal pills have not been found here.