Trump lawyers attack Georgia grand jury and prosecutor
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are attacking a special grand jury and prosecutors who investigated him in Georgia, asking a state court to throw out its report and all testimony from the inquiry and bar Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from continuing to investigate or prosecute Trump. The filing, made Monday in Atlanta, argues that the Georgia law that allows for special grand juries is unconstitutionally vague because it doesn't say whether such a grand jury is handing criminal matters or civil matters. The lawyers also argue that the grand jury didn't sufficiently protect Trump's right to due process.
news.yahoo.comTrump moves to quash Georgia election probe
Former President Donald Trump is moving to quash a Georgia investigation into his efforts to influence the outcome of the 2020 election, seeking to bar the use of any evidence presented to a grand jury reviewing the matter. In a 50-page filing in a Fulton County court, Trump’s attorneys blasted the investigation as “confusing, flawed,…
news.yahoo.comGeorgia county said it was too costly to spend $10,000 a year on health cover for trans employees. It spent $1.2 million fighting it, lost, and has to pay anyway.
Houston County spent nearly $1.2 million fighting an employee who wanted a change to their health plan to cover gender-affirming surgery.
news.yahoo.comA Georgia employee requested their county include gender-affirming care as part of their health coverage. Instead, the county spent $1.2 million fighting the effort: report.
"It was a slap in the face, really, to find out how much they had spent," Sgt. Anna Lange, a sheriff's deputy in Georgia's Houston County said.
news.yahoo.comNo. 2 seed Iowa makes NCAA Tournament site a tough ticket
Georgia coach Katie Abrahamson-Henderson got a phone call from her panicked sister. “She said, ‘I’m not going to get tickets, it’s sold out,’” Abrahamson-Henderson said Thursday about the NCAA Tournament games at Iowa’s Carver-Hawkeye Arena. The Seattle Regional 4 games on Friday — featuring second-seed Iowa against No. 15 seed Southeastern Louisiana and seventh-seed Florida State vs. No. 10 seed Georgia — were gone within a hour after going on sale Monday morning.
news.yahoo.comGeorgia grand jury heard another Trump call recording
A special grand jury that investigated whether Donald Trump and his allies illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia heard a recording of the former president pushing a top state lawmaker to call a special session to overturn his loss in the state.
Georgia grand jury heard another Trump call recording
A special grand jury that investigated whether Donald Trump and his allies illegally meddled in the 2020 election in Georgia heard a recording of the former president pushing a top state lawmaker to call a special session to overturn his loss in the state, according to a newspaper report. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday that it spoke to five members of the special grand jury who said they heard a recording of a phone call between Trump and Georgia House Speaker David Ralston that had not previously been reported and has not been made public.
news.yahoo.comJacksonville doctor explains rare condition that caused UGA student’s spring break hospitalization
The mother of a University of Georgia student who suffered a brain hemorrhage while on spring break in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, says her daughter is able to communicate by squeezing her hand and nodding.
Autopsy: 'Cop City' protester had hands raised when killed
An environmental activist who was fatally shot in a confrontation with Georgia law enforcement in January was sitting cross-legged with their hands in the air at the time, the protester’s family said Monday as they released results of an autopsy they commissioned. The family of Manuel Paez Terán held a news conference in Decatur to announce the findings and the filing of an open-records lawsuit seeking to force Atlanta police to release more evidence about the Jan. 18 killing of Paez Terán, who went by the name Tortuguita and used the pronoun they. The family’s attorneys said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which has been probing the shooting for nearly two months, has prevented Atlanta police from releasing additional evidence to the family.
news.yahoo.comGeorgia high school football star's alleged killer pleads not guilty as family sues over 'high crime area'
The parents of murdered Georgia high school football star Elijah DeWitt filed a lawsuit against a suburban Atlanta mall and Dave & Buster's for not warning about the "high crime area."
news.yahoo.comGeorgia high school football star's alleged killer pleads not guilty as family sues over 'high crime area'
The parents of murdered Georgia high school football star Elijah DeWitt filed a lawsuit against a suburban Atlanta mall and Dave & Buster's for not warning about the "high crime area."
foxnews.comGeorgia nuclear plant begins splitting atoms for first time
A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in one of its two new reactors, Georgia Power said Monday, a key step toward reaching commercial operation at the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in decades in the United States. The unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. said operators reached self-sustaining nuclear fission inside the reactor at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta. A third and a fourth reactor were approved for construction at Vogtle by the Georgia Public Service Commission in 2009, and the third reactor was supposed to start generating power in 2016.
news.yahoo.comBody of beloved Henry County bookstore owner found in creek, employee charged in her death
The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office says deputies recovered 42-year-old Erica Atkins’ body on Sunday afternoon. Atkins owned Birdsong Books in Locust Grove and also worked for the Georgia Department of Revenue, according to her LinkedIn profile.
news.yahoo.comJimmy Carter: Family affair to the White House and beyond
When Jimmy Carter stepped onto the national stage, he brought along those closest to him, introducing Americans to a colorful Georgia family that helped shape the 39th president’s public life and now, generations later, is rallying around him for the private final chapter of his 98 years.
Few showers early, windy and cool for the afternoon
It’s definitely a drier start to the day, but a few showers will push through during the morning hours. We will see dry conditions by afternoon, but winds will increase and mostly cloudy skies will continue. Highs for today will only be in the low 60s.