Rudy Giuliani has surrendered in Atlanta to be booked as part of county prosecutors' investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Giuliani faces 13 felony counts.
On the Wednesday Aug. 23 edition of Georgia Today: Two more defendants indicted with Donald Trump turn themselves in, with the former president expected in town tomorrow. The Georgia Supreme Court hears arguments on whether it was illegal to use a rap video as evidence in a recent murder trial. And Savannah City Council prepares to vote on a new name for one of the city's historic town squares.
Sixty years ago, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. issued his resounding call for racial harmony that set off decades of push and pull toward progress. On Saturday, as civil rights leaders and their allies mark 60 years since the original March on Washington, they hope to recapture the spark that forever changed America.
Rudy Giuliani is expected to turn himself in at a jail in Atlanta on charges related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The former New York mayor was indicted last week with former President Donald Trump and 17 others.
The head of the USDA traveled to coastal Georgia Tuesday to announce a new federal program meant to help small-acreage forest owners and those from underrepresented groups.
A cyberattack against Augusta's municipal government back in May is leading to higher than normal water bills for some residents now, months later.
Officials broke ground Monday on the first of three new publicly-funded behavioral health crisis centers in Georgia.
The Biden administration is spending $150 million to help owners of small parcels of forestland partner with private companies willing to pay them for carbon offsets and other environmental credits. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the program Tuesday in Georgia at a meeting of Black landowners from eight Southern states.
A new COVID variant spreading is responsible for about 16% of new COVID-19 cases in Georgia. While it may be easier to catch EG.5 or "Eris," the virus does not appear to cause more severe disease than previous variants.
On the Tuesday, Aug. 22 edition of Georgia Today: One of the other co-defendants in Donald Trump's RICO indictment has turned himself in here in Atlanta; officials have broken ground on the first of three new behavioral health crisis centers in the state; and we talk to a familiar face for many Peloton users about his Georgia roots.
Users of Peloton, the exercise-machine-slash-social media company, can choose between what seems like an endless selection of workouts guided by friendly, funny, and fit instructors. One of the company's most popular instructors, with more than 280,000 Instagram followers, has roots here in Georgia: Matt Wilpers.
Conservative attorney John Eastman, who pushed a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, has turned himself in to authorities on charges in the Georgia case alleging an illegal plot to overturn the then-president's 2020 election loss.
The March on Washington of 1963 is remembered most for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. It was a crowning moment for the long-term civil rights activism of what is sometimes referred to as the "Black Church." In the decades before and after 1963, Black churches and denominations have had diverse priorities and political approaches.
