An unidentified Newton County, Ga., high school teacher was mandated by the district to remain home as an Ebola precautionary measure, upon learning from a…
For iPhone: Lucy Craft Laney was a pioneering educator in Georgia who opened the first school for Black children in Augusta. She also opened the first nursing school for Black women in the town as well, leading to a long career in education. Laney was born April 13, 1854 to former slave parents in […]
Police officers and the family of Charles Smith, the Georgia man who allegedly took his own life while being handcuffed in the back seat of a patrol car, are asking for calm protests before his funeral. WJCL reports: SAVANNAH, GA- More than a week has passed after the officer involved shooting that has captured headlines all […]
A handcuffed Georgia man was shot and killed by a police officer after spotting a firearm in a patrol car, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigations. The New York Daily News reports: Charles Smith, picked up on outstanding warrants in Savannah late Thursday morning, had been cuffed behind his back before police say he kicked […]
ATLANTA (AP) — More than two months after his son’s death in a hot car, a Georgia man who prosecutors say sat in his office exchanging nude photos with women while his son languished for hours was charged with murder on Thursday. A Cobb County grand jury indicted Justin Ross Harris on multiple charges, including […]
Georgia parents who have failed to pay their court-mandated child support could possibly face having their driver’s licenses taken away from them, according to the…
ATLANTA (AP) — A second American medical missionary stricken with the often deadly Ebola virus is expected to fly Tuesday to the U.S. for treatment, following a colleague admitted over the weekend to Emory University Hospital’s infectious disease unit. U.S. public health officials say treating Nancy Writebol and Dr. Kent Brantly in the U.S. poses […]
The 1946 lynching of two Black sharecropper couples by a vicious White mob has haunted Georgia residents for nearly seven decades. Known as the “Lynching At Moore’s Ford Bridge,” the still-unsolved murder case of George and May Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Malcolm has been reopened. On July 25, 1946, the Dorseys and the Malcolms […]
Although it seemed as though Porsha Williams would never recover from her difficult divorce from former NFL player Kordell Stewart, she found a way to…
Officer Phillip Tobin (pictured) is a marked man since the residents of Thomaston, Ga., rallied together Tuesday night, demanding that he be ousted from the police force…
JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia inmate convicted of rape and murder has become the first person to be executed in the U.S. since the botched lethal injection of a prisoner in Oklahoma in April. Fifty-nine-year-old Marcus Wellons was executed by injection Tuesday night after last-minute appeals were denied. A corrections spokesman says he was […]
EATONTON, Ga. (AP) — The unsolved beheading of a retiree and the killing of his elderly wife has so rattled their gated, lakeside Georgia community that neighbors are casting about for even outlandish explanations. Was it a mob hit? A drug dealer? A hungry alligator? The peaceful neighborhood where the couple was found dead hadn’t […]
