A federal judge has ruled that the Biden administration complied with the law when it declined to grant an extension to Georgia’s year-old Medicaid plan, which is the only one in the country that has a work requirement for recipients of the publicly funded health coverage for low-income people.

A 49-year-old Glynn County woman was sentenced to just over three years in federal prison after she admitted to her role in a conspiracy to use false prescriptions to obtain thousands of pills, including opioids, to distribute on the street.

The white father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting after they chased the 25-year-old Black man through a Georgia neighborhood have been sentenced to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.

A federal judge has postponed sentencing for the white men convicted of hate crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery until Aug. 8.

Sentencing is set for Aug. 1 for three white men convicted of federal hate crimes for chasing and killing Black man Ahmaud Arbery.

The federal judge presiding over the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery said she will seat a jury Monday after a week spent asking potential jurors what they already know about the Black man’s death as well as their views on racism in America.

With 57 potential jurors qualified so far, jury selection in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery could wrap up soon.

Jury selection is off to a fast start in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men already convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

The questioning of potential jurors in the federal hate crimes trial of the three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery is moving quickly.

Three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery are heading for a second trial in federal court, where jury selection could be complicated by failed plea bargains in the case.

The man convicted of murder for shooting Ahmaud Arbery withdrew his guilty plea on a federal hate crime charge Friday, electing to stand trial for a second time in the 2020 killing of a Black man that became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice.

The man convicted of murder for shooting Ahmaud Arbery is withdrawing his guilty plea on a federal hate crime charge.

The father and son convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery have until Friday to decide their next steps after a federal judge rejected a plea deal Monday between prosecutors and Travis McMichael.

A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the white man convicted of murder for fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery, whose parents angrily objected to the deal as unfair and unjust.

A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the white man convicted of murder for fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery, whose parents angrily objected to the deal as unfair and unjust.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin in February for the federal trial of three Georgia men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.

The last of seven defendants accused in the April 2018 vandalism of the Kings Bay Submarine Base has been sentenced.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – A North Carolina man convicted of the April 2018 illegal entry and vandalism of Submarine Base Kings Bay has been sentenced to federal prison. Patrick O’Neill, 63, of Garner, N.C., was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 14 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $33,503.51 in restitution, said Bobby L. Christine, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. He was ordered to serve three years of supervised release after completion of his prison sentence. “Patrick O’Neill willingly broke into and vandalized a restricted military installation, and brazenly filmed himself and others doing so,” Christine said. Once through the security fence, the trespassers split into two groups and then damaged and vandalized property inside the facility before being taken into custody by naval security personnel.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. The second of two men charged in a drug trafficking conspiracy implicated in a womans overdose death has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison. Judge Wood had already sentenced Donald Adams, 63, of Brunswick, to 126 months in prison on the same charge. Makeda Atkinson and Donald Adams were small-time drug dealers until their poison fueled the overdose death of a young mother whose body was found by her 5-year-old daughter, U.S. Attorney Bobby Christine said. Glynn County Criminal Investigator Stephen Lowery took the lead in investigating the womans death and, working with the FBI, linked it to fentanyl-tainted heroin sold by Atkinson and Adams. Atkinson and his co-defendant played a significant role in the death of a young mother poisoned by the drugs they were pushing, said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta.

WAYCROSS, Ga. - Two drug traffickers, a Douglas, Georgia, man and an illegal alien with ties to a Mexican drug cartel, will spend more than a decade in federal prison after sentencing in a South Georgia methamphetamine conspiracy. Ricardo Santana-Hernandez, 32, of Cdaltimairano, Guerroro, Mexico, was sentenced to 135 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood. Santana-Herndandez, Bland and nine other conspirators -- five of them South Georgia residents -- pleaded guilty after their indictment by a federal grand jury in October 2018 for drug trafficking and firearms-related offenses. Ryon Bland, 32, of Douglas, Georgia, was sentenced to 110 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood. Prosecutors said that Santana-Hernandez was a source of supply for the drug trafficking organization that operated in Telfair County and elsewhere.

Taylor's prison term will be followed by a 15-year term of supervised release and he will also be required to register as a sex offender. Evidence developed during the investigation revealed that Taylor communicated on Facebook with a 12-year-old girl. These communications led to the production of child pornography and the eventual coercion and enticement of the victim to engage in sex acts with him on two occasions. This prosecution was the result of a joint investigation by the Ware County Sheriff's Office and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). "I am proud of our investigator who began the initial investigation, which led to Mr. Taylor's arrest," Ware County Sheriff Randy Royal said.