ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans shot down a last-ditch attempt by Democrats to expand Medicaid on Thursday in a state Senate committee, frustrating Democrats who say GOP leaders broke a promise to advance the bill. The Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities Committee rejected the plan on a tie 7-7 vote, after two Republicans and five Democrats […]
Demonstrating the corrupt nature of the charges Fulton County DA Fani Willis brought against former President Donald Trump and his codefendants Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on March 13 ruled on several demurrers, striking six counts from the 41-count indictment against former President Donald Trump and 14 codefendants. The demurrers were brought by […]
Two Georgia men are accused of blowing up a woman’s home and planning to release a python in the house to eat the woman’s daughter. The woman is unidentified but is reported to be an ex of one of the men arrested. Stephen Glosser, 37, and Caleb Kinsey, 34, […]
The Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill that requires police and sheriff’s departments to help identify illegal aliens, arrest them, and detain them for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The vote for House Bill 1105 was 97-74. This vote came as police charged Jose Ibarra, an illegal alien from Venezuela, for the assault […]
ATLANTA — Georgia House members are moving to tighten Georgia’s lucrative film tax credit, limiting the value of credits moviemakers can cash in by selling them to others and requiring them to spend more in the state. The House voted 131-34 on Thursday to approve House Bill 1180, sending it to the Senate for more […]
ATLANTA — A man who killed his former girlfriend three decades ago is set to be put to death in March in Georgia’s first execution in more than four years. A judge on Thursday signed the order for the execution of Willie James Pye, who was convicted of murder and other crimes in the November […]
Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp said that new revelations about the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump have left it tainted. The substance of any case Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may have had has been overshadowed in recent weeks by revelations that she was in a romantic relationship with Nathan […]
The killing of a nursing student by an illegal immigrant and the Fani Willis’ scandal-plagued prosecution of former President Trump has set the stage to flip the key battleground state back into the Trump column. The polls were already daunting for President Biden in the Peach State, where he’s trailing Mr. Trump by 7 points. […]
ATLANTA — Georgians could get a chance in November to vote on authorizing sports gambling after senators on Tuesday approved a state constitutional amendment. It’s a big step forward for those who want Georgians to be able to bet on pro and college sports after years of being stymied in the Senate. But the measure […]
ATHENS, Ga. — Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student out on her morning run at the University of Georgia when authorities say a stranger dragged her into a secluded area and killed her, sending shockwaves through campus as police searched for a suspect. The arrest of a Venezuelan man who entered the U.S. illegally […]
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