A judge has ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to pay more than $54,000 in attorneys' fees and to turn over documents after finding that her office violated Georgia's Open Records Act.
A team of independent monitors says Georgia's Fulton County conducted an "organized and orderly" election last year. The county has struggled in the past with long lines, slow reporting and even false claims of voter fraud. Given its past election problems, Republicans have repeatedly sought extra oversight of the Democratic stronghold
A federal lawsuit accuses Atlanta police of systemically targeting critics of a police and firefighter training center. The lawsuit was filed last week on behalf of "Stop Cop City" activist Jamie Marsicano, who is facing domestic terrorism and racketeering charges.
The Georgia State Election Board has voted to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena against a conservative group that had alleged ballot stuffing in the state after the group was unable to produce evidence to support its claims.
Fulton’s annual Point In Time Count of all the unhoused people in the county has been postponed this year due to cold weather. It was scheduled to begin Wednesday.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Friday that it has entered into a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia's most populous county after finding that violence and filthy conditions in county lockups violated the constitutional rights of people held in jail.
The family of an environmental activist shot and killed by state troopers near the site of a planned Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center activists call "Cop City" has filed a lawsuit against three law enforcement officers.
Fulton County Schools Board of Education members learned during their Dec. 10 work session about how the district’s Student Support Services identifies students in crisis, offers counseling, helps improve reading skills, and gets aid from corporate and nonprofit partnerships.
President-elect Donald Trump is trying to get the Georgia election interference case against him dismissed. He claims the state's courts will not have jurisdiction over him once he returns to the White House next month.
The long-running gang and racketeering trial in Atlanta that led rapper Young Thug to plead guilty in October has ended with a jury finding the last two defendants not guilty of murder and gang-related charges.
U.S. Justice Department officials said jail officials in Georgia's most populous county violate the constitutional rights of people in their custody by failing to protect them from violence, using excessive force and holding them in filthy and unsafe conditions.
A Republican lawyer who interned in the White House under Donald Trump is challenging Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. She's the Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against the former president over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
A federal judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to turn over his New York City apartment and various other assets to two Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against him. Judge Lewis Liman in Manhattan issued the ruling Tuesday.
