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Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump has joined the legal team for the family of a man killed by a Camden County deputy.

Georgia craft brewers have launched a petition urging state lawmakers to support changes to the state's beer distribution laws.

The Georgia Department of Corrections has chosen a site for a state of the art prison aimed at addressing recurring safety issues.

Jury selection is slated to begin later this week for the first trial in the 2020 election interference racketeering case.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said yesterday it is removing 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction. 

A controversial decision to rezone a historic Gullah Geechee settlement in coastal Georgia is being challenged in state court.

A Georgia sheriff's deputy shot and killed a Black man released after being wrongfully sentenced in Florida to 16 years in prison.

The Department of Community Affairs is taking applications for its Housing Choice Voucher Program for the first time in two years.

Residents of a low-income senior housing community in Atlanta are pushing back against plans for a new management company.

Early voting begins today in many Georgia communities holding municipal elections on November 7th.

Georgia is one of 30 states that was flagged by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services late last month for its improper handling of automatic renewals.

Law enforcement authorities in Macon's Bibb County are searching for four men who escaped from the county jail this morning.

A controversial decision to rezone a historic Gullah-Geechee settlement on Georgia's coast is being challenged in state court.

The average salary of a first-year public school teacher in Georgia is up $24,000, to a little more than $44,000, this school year.