The parents of a 28-year-old Georgia woman who died after she fell from a moving patrol car following her arrest fought back tears Friday as they demanded answers in their daughter's death. Brianna Grier suffered significant injuries July 15 and died from those injuries on July 21 at an Atlanta hospital.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Music Midtown canceled the annual festival at Piedmont Park because of legal concerns over the organizers' ability to ban guns during the two-day event.
According to Georgia’s first statewide survey of bald eagle nests in five years, America's national bird is nesting in the Peach State in record numbers.
Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock is running for his first full Senate term, pitching himself as a lawmaker willing to do whatever it takes to help his state. That's a shift from his approach in the state's nationally elevated twin runoff campaigns won by Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff in January 2021.
Film and television productions spent $4.4 billion in the Peach State in fiscal 2022, which ended June 30, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday. That’s up from the previous record of $4 billion set in fiscal 2021.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham has challenged a subpoena to testify before a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others broke any laws when they tried to overturn Joe Biden's win in Georgia.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is using federal COVID-19 relief money to give teachers another $125 to buy school supplies. The move comes months after he issued a similar stipend.
In the coming months, state lawmakers are preparing to reexamine QBE. The Senate Study Committee to Review Educational Funding Mechanisms is set to hold three meetings across the state this fall to gather input about potentially revising the formula.
A college instructor in Georgia has been charged with murder in the Saturday shooting death of an 18-year-old student. The Carrollton Police Department said in a news release that Richard Sigman is charged with murder and aggravated assault for his involvement in the shooting death of 18-year-old Anna Jones.
A lack of funding in core public health programs slowed the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and exacerbated its impact, according to a new report from Trust for America's Health — and the pattern is repeating in the latest monkeypox outbreak.