The community’s legal battles with the state and local authorities began in 2016. The residents received a $19 million settlement from the State of Georgia in 2020 forcing state agencies to upgrade the transportation facilities that the historic Black community residents and descendants rely on to travel to Sapelo.
The Fulton County district attorney's office can no longer investigate Georgia's Republican Lt. Gov. nominee in a wide-ranging probe of election interference.
A U.S. marshal and a suspect in a killing were shot yesterday as officers tried to arrest the man at a mobile home park in the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree City.
Former Atlanta Braves outfielder and pinch-hitter Dwight Smith has died.
A study released Monday by Harvard University and U.S. Census Bureau researchers found that by age 26 more than two-thirds of millennials lived in the same area where they grew up, 80% had moved less than 100 miles away and 90% resided less than 500 miles away. Overall, the most popular destinations for all young adults who moved were New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta.
Monday on Political Rewind: We’re answering your questions about student loans. Many of you left us voicemails before the show. We’ll tackle what it means for students, parents and borrowers. We’ll also answer what it means for Georgia politics if President Biden erases the debt. But first, the AJC's Patricia Murphy fills us in the on latest in the Fulton County probe.
A new report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention concludes that the threat of antimicrobial-resistant infections is not only still present but has gotten worse — with resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths both increasing at least 15% during the first year of the pandemic. Research from the University of Georgia shows the refugee community is most at risk.
After a bruising opening to his general election campaign for the U.S. Senate, Georgia Republican Herschel Walker is trying to deflect attention back onto Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
The state of Georgia and local governments are giving Hyundai Motor Group incentives worth $1.8 billion to build electric vehicles in the state. That's according to the signed agreement disclosed by state officials Friday.
The General Assembly passed legislation two years ago requiring all film productions located in Georgia to undergo mandatory audits by the state Department of Revenue or third-party auditors selected by the agency.
Georgia’s new abortion law and controversial personhood language will create a flurry of confusion that experts argue will likely tie up state courts with challenges.
Prosecutors say they will retry an Atlanta man in the high-profile shooting of his wife after Georgia's Supreme Court recently overturned his murder conviction. The high court ruled last month that the jury should have had the option of convicting 79-year-old Claud "Tex" McIver of involuntary manslaughter, a misdemeanor charge.