A Georgia man has been sentenced to five years in prison and 10 years of probation in the death of an acclaimed local sculptor who had been tapped to create a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Georgia State Capitol, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Corey Ashton Sease, 23, hit and killed Andy Davis, 56, […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper T.I. is paying a $300 fine after pleading no contest to violating a local law in Georgia that prohibits public cursing. The charge against the performer stems from a May incident at the gated community where he lives in the Atlanta suburb of Stockbridge. His spokesman, Steve Sadow, tells the Atlanta […]
DECATUR, Tenn. (AP) — Engineers are inspecting the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Tennessee as a precaution after a magnitude 4.4 earthquake struck nearby. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake struck eastern Tennessee and could be felt in Atlanta. The light earthquake occurred Wednesday around 4:14 a.m. about 7 miles (11 kilometers) northeast of […]
A teenager set up an elaborate online business scheme to try to steal more than $20 million from the state of Georgia, reports Channel 2 Action News. Charles Turner, 18, was arrested Thursday morning. He was waiting on a paper check from the State Department of Revenue, per arrangements he unknowingly made with undercover agents. Last month, a […]
Last month Robin Le-Hanefi’s son passed her in his jeep on a Georgia road and was far enough ahead of her that his car was out of sight. Then she saw a cloud of smoke. Le-Hanefi told Channel 2 Action News Thursday that her heart sank as she got closer. She saw her son’s almost unrecognizable […]
An altercation involving employees at a Georgia Chinese restaurant and a diner who allegedly skipped the bill ended in a triple shooting Wednesday night, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Two employees of the Chinese restaurant followed a diner who “left without paying for food,” DeKalb police spokesman Sgt. J.D. Spencer told AJC.com. “During the fight, one […]
A Georgia childcare worker has been fired and charged after she reportedly slammed a 16-month-old baby into a mat at the center. Jonee Nicole Hamilton, 20, was fired by the facility after the Nov. 28 incident. Police are investigating after they got a report that an employee of the center had taken a 16-month-old child […]
A man who fled a Georgia courtroom just before he was convicted of murder has been arrested, authorities said. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, Verlaine LaGuerre, 22, left the courthouse during a lunch break before his final verdict was read in April and never came back. After LaGuerre left the courtroom, the jury convicted him and […]
Seventy years ago in Lyons, Ga., a Black man was murdered in front of his family by a violent White mob. Despite his wife’s protests and her best efforts, the perpetrators were never put behind bars. Robert “Duck” Mallard was a traveling salesman and his wife, Amy Mallard, was a college-educated schoolteacher. The couple lived […]
A Georgia man showed up at his ex-girlfriend’s job in Suwanee Wednesday morning and shot her in the head, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Nathanieo Pinkins, 30, showed up at the computer business around 8:10 a.m. His ex was sitting in her car when he fired multiple rounds into the vehicle, one reportedly hit her in the […]
A white lawmaker’s racist post had been swept under the rug.
ATLANTA (AP) — After multiple federal court rulings and a flurry of legal filings, uncertainty looms over Georgia’s still-undecided race for governor. Unofficial results in one of the nation’s hottest midterm contests give Republican Brian Kemp a slim majority. But Democrat Stacey Abrams maintains that enough uncounted absentee, mail-in and provisional ballots remain to force […]
