Jail records show Georgia running back Trevor Etienne was arrested over the weekend on drunken driving, reckless driving and other charges. 

Georgia’s lawmakers head into the final week of the 2024 legislative session with pending legislation designed to add a new security feature to paper ballots, provide online access to ballots, change the way votes are tabulated and a bill intended to provide more clarity on voter eligibility challenges.

At the Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown Atlanta, Mayor Andre Dickens spoke to the business community about reducing crime in the city, reflecting on the "Year of the Youth" initiative, affordable housing, law enforcement and economic development and investment.

On March 11 at the Carter Center, a multigenerational group of women found that a lot has changed in the decade since the release of President Carter's A Call to Action — namely, that many women now view progress on the hyper-local level as vital as that of the "big picture." 

A new report from the Alzheimer’s Association estimates 70% of family caregivers are stressed by coordinating care for someone with dementia. In Georgia, that’s about 374,000 family caregivers.

Georgia lawmakers are considering a new effort to block a proposed titanium mine near the Okefenokee Swamp.

Researchers from Emory and Georgia Tech are working together on a device that would help prevent heat related injuries.

A former Georgia insurance commissioner is pleading guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud. John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Atlanta. The crime is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, but the 61-year-old Oxendine is likely to be sentenced to less.

Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has pleaded guilty in a federal case accusing him of health care fraud.

Rome Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust US House Speaker Mike Johnson. She calls it a warning.

A January 6th defendant who at the time of the attack was a Savannah car salesman is showing interest in taking his case to trial.

Georgia State University is blaming federal rules for the return of Pell Grants as a primary reason for its decision to close its prison education program this summer.

On the Friday, March 22 edition of Georgia Today: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files a motion to oust U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson; a former Georgia insurance commissioner pleads guilty in a health care fraud scheme; and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks with us about U.S. Postal Service delays and their affects on absentee voting. 

Recently upgraded federal charges against Dominic Box could be argued before a jury this summer.

Macon, Ga., boasts some 350,000 cherry trees. But if you want to plan on seeing them in bloom, you need to look earlier in your calendar, every year.

The annual report highlights how people are impacted by diseases of dementia. And how quickly the population is aging.

A bill aiming to prevent agents of foreign countries deemed hostile to the United States from buying farmland in Georgia is set to go to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk after passing the House along party lines Thursday.

A late proposal to fully expand Medicaid received a surprise hearing in a Senate committee Thursday but was narrowly defeated, with the chairman who allowed the hearing casting the decisive vote to shelve it.

At an event hosted by the Carter Center and Dutch Consulate of Atlanta on Feb. 28, 2024, Sweet Auburn Stories producer Royce Bable sat down with Xernona Clayton, 93, for a wide-ranging interview about her Oklahoma childhood, a stint in Hollywood, her prominence in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s and her long media career. The storytelling series began in 2019 and focuses on Black pioneers.