Georgia Supreme Court justices had pointed questions this week for representatives of the Georgia Department of Human Services’ Division of Family and Children Services. A case working its way through Georgia’s highest court has to do with the government’s power to remove a child from his or her home.
Georgia's highest court will soon stop routinely hearing appeals in murder cases, which account for more than half of the Georgia Supreme Court's published cases. They will be heard in the Georgia Court of Appeals starting July of next year.
A man sentenced to 15 years in prison after giving his son the gun he used in a deadly high school shooting in Georgia has asked for a new trial. Colin Gray made the request Wednesday.
A Georgia teenager who charged at the U.S. Capitol while armed with a loaded shotgun and wearing body armor and camouflage clothing has pleaded guilty to illegally carrying a firearm.
Marcus Lucas got quite a shock when he checked on his Elnora Drive property while in Macon for a funeral early this year: A Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning sign led to the discovery he was a victim of home title fraud claiming Lucas transferred the property to a Florida corporation.
On the April 29 edition: Georgia reacts to today's landmark Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act; Fire officials near Georgia's coast respond to dozens of illegal burn piles; And there are new tools to make sure parity laws are being followed.
Officials say an Army sergeant accused of shooting five people at a Georgia base last summer is seeking to plead guilty to attempted murder and other charges in a military court.
The man who was convicted of a federal hate crime for mailing Georgia’s only Jewish state representative and a Macon rabbi antisemitic postcards has been given the maximum sentence under federal law.
A federal judge in Atlanta paused a challenge against school district policies targeting so-called divisive topics while a Cobb County teacher fired under such a policy contests her termination in a separate state court case.
Cobb County Superior Court’s clerk has been charged with two counts of destruction of public records and two counts of violation of oath of office by a grand jury Thursday.
Georgia’s state Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s ruling in a 2024 election case, affirming that local election board members must certify election results by the deadline outlined in state law.
The state secrets privilege allows the U.S. government to withhold sensitive evidence in court cases. Both Democratic and Republican administrations have invoked it.
