Rosalynn Carter's tribute service at Emory University in Atlanta Tuesday was filled with music and tributes from close friends and family who knew the former first lady well.
Political leaders in middle Georgia want everyday people to trek to the Georgia Capitol to make their voices heard during the special session for legislative redistricting beginning today.
Officials in coastal McIntosh County are denying any wrongdoing in their controversial decision to rezone a historic Gullah Geechee settlement.
Tuesday's service celebrated the former first lady's accomplishments and humanity with songs, scripture and poetry. Members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus and country stars Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks performed some of Mrs. Carter's favorite compositions.
Until 2012 and 2013, portions of the Chattahoochee were un-dammed and reengineered, creating a 2.5-mile urban whitewater course. A two-part story will take a trip down the Chattahoochee to explore the economic gains and environmental challenges over the last decade that have incurred from this $26 million restoration project.
A prosecutor and a defense attorney presented competing pictures of rapper Young Thug as his trial got underway in Atlanta. Prosecutor Adriane Love painted him as the ruthless leader of a violent street gang that terrorized Atlanta neighborhoods.
On the Tuesday, Nov. 28 edition of Georgia Today: Rosalynn Carter is eulogized at an Atlanta church service in Atlanta with the former President Jimmy Carter in the front row; Georgia lawmakers have released a proposed redo of their Senate district maps; and Officials in Coastal Georgia's McIntosh County are denying any wrongdoing in their controversial decision to rezone Sapelo Island.
Elected officials and others held a community meeting of about 100 people at the Elaine Lucas Senior Center in Macon to discuss the special session of the Georgia General Assembly beginning this week.
Rosalynn Carter was memorialized with classical music and beloved hymns, some of her favorite Biblical passages, and a rare gathering of all living U.S. first ladies and multiple presidents, including her 99-year-old husband Jimmy Carter.
Georgia Senate Republicans are proposing a new map that would create two new Black-majority districts in the the General Assembly's upper chamber. The new map comes after a federal judge said current congressional, state Senate and state House maps illegally dilute Black votes.
The official tributes for former first lady Rosalynn Carter started on Monday when the Carter family and others, in a motorcade carrying Mrs. Carter’s casket, made its way from Phoebe Sumter Medical Center and through Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus for a wreath laying ceremony.
