This week on Georgia in Play, host Leah Fleming talks Music Midtown, the Macon Film Festival, "Try That in a Small Town", and Georgia's up-and-coming musical talent.

A trial challenging voting district maps in Georgia has concluded, leaving a decision in the hands of a federal judge. A lawyer for the state said in closing arguments Thursday that court intervention on behalf of Black voters isn't needed. Plaintiffs say Black voters are still fighting opposition from white voters and need federal help to get a fair shot.

The Baseball Hall of Fame is going Bananas. An exhibit dedicated to the sport's wackiest team, the Savannah Bananas, is opening at the hallowed shrine in Cooperstown, New York.

Five adults and a 15-year-old self-described as "Soldiers of Christ" religious group members were in custody on murder charges after a woman's body was found in the trunk of a car parked outside a popular spa in Georgia.

Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff shared on Wednesday that he is calling for Attorney General Merrick Garland to launch a Department of Justice investigation on Clayton County's jail examining the mistreatment of inmates

There will be at least two trials in the 19 person election interference racketeering case in Georgia that includes former President Donald Trump.

Nearly 30 animal shelters across Georgia are participating in a national adoption weekend running through Sunday.

Metro Atlanta's Gwinnett County has unveiled a $17 billion plan to transform its public transit system.

A line of severe thunderstorms Thursday caused flooding in Atlanta, especially in the Downtown area, forcing the closure of the Georgia Aquarium.

The people who need naloxone most are the least likely to have it. That includes police officers, fentanyl overdose victims, and their parents.

But it won’t include fans attending Music Midtown in Atlanta this weekend.

Delta Air Lines is changing how customers earn rewards in what some call the company's biggest-ever change for frequent fliers.

There will be at least two trials in the 19-person election interference case in Georgia that includes former President Donald Trump.

For a sixth year, the Atlanta Braves are the National League East Champions. They clinched the title in a 4-1 win over the Phillies.

On the Thursday September 14th edition of Georgia Today: A judge splits the case against former President Donald Trump and 18 others into at least two separate groups of defendants; The city of Macon holds its annual art and film festival celebrating members of the Muscogee nation of Oklahoma; and for the sixth year in a row, the Atlanta Braves are national league east champions!

A Georgia judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump and 16 others will be tried separately from two defendants who are set to go to trial next month in the case accusing them all of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The Atlanta Braves clinched their sixth straight NL East title, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 behind Spencer Strider's major league-leading 17th win and Austin Riley's two-run homer.

A federal judge overseeing the case involving Atlanta activists' referendum effort against a police and firefighter training facility has accused city officials of moving the goalposts on the signature-gathering campaign.

On the Wednesday, Sept. 13 edition of Georgia Today: McIntosh County officials vote to rezone a historic Gullah Geechee settlement on Sapelo Island, raising concerns with citizens; a new study show Georgia residents are unprepared to handle long term health care; and sheriffs in central Georgia try a new way of helping people experiencing a mental health crisis.

The rezoning more than doubles the maximum legal size of homes on Hogg Hummock, worrying many that Gullah Geechee descendants will be priced out of their ancestral land.