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On Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was again the victim of a swatting call at her north Georgia home. This call, however, had a lethal difference: an officer was killed in rushing to the scene to join the bomb squad. The incident will trigger a new Georgia law on swatting and raise questions over legal responsibility for such lethal consequences from such crimes. Greene has been a victim of swatting at least nine times. On this occasion, the caller made a bomb threat. The police department received the threat entitled “For Palestine” and ended with “VIVA, VIVA PALESTINA.” The...

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox struck down seven new election rules on Wednesday, The Superior Court of Fulton County has effectively nullified crucial voting rules established by Georgia’s State Election Board (SEB) with its recent ruling. The SEB had previously implemented rules that required enhanced verification measures, such as signature matching and video surveillance of ballot drop boxes, all in an effort to curb election fraud and provide confidence in election results. But Judge Cox’s ruling, which declares these rules unconstitutional and void, opens the floodgates to potential chaos and voter fraud just weeks before the critical 2024...

Local election officials in Georgia cannot delay or refuse to officially certify election results, according to a state court ruling on Monday. “Election superintendents in Georgia have a mandatory fixed obligation to certify election results,” wrote Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney in the ruling. “Consequently, no election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and registration) may refuse to certify or abstain from certifying election results under any circumstance.” McBurney wrote that the U.S. Constitution does not allow an election official to decline to certify the results. “If election superintendents were, as Plaintiff urges, free to play...

A Georgia environmental official died after suddenly collapsing near the state Capitol on Tuesday during a public meeting on last month’s toxic chemical plant inferno outside Atlanta, officials said. Kenny Johnson, the Rockdale County Soil and Water Conservation District supervisor, testified alongside business owners and leaders about the BioLab chemical fire in Conyers, about 25 miles outside Atlanta, which spewed clouds of hazardous chlorine gas and smoke throughout the area. Shortly afterward, the 62-year-old collapsed and was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he died. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said that due to the circumstances of Johnson’s death,...

Regarding natural disasters, the Biden-Harris duo is one for the record books in either incompetence or gross indifference. Whenever disaster strikes, you can always count on these two not to be with it regarding some response. With Hurricane Helene, the Biden administration’s ‘Katrina’ moment has arrived, and what an ugly picture it is. Like incompetents that they are, this administration is committing fouls that an actual media establishment would have excoriated them for, and rightfully so. Alas, Biden-Harris find themselves engulfed in an oasis of calm because they know the press won’t attack them, even if they are doing nothing...

Around the time Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida, power outages across the state surged to over 1 million. The majority of these outages are concentrated around Tampa and the Big Bend area, where Helene struck. According to PowerOutage.us, over 80% of tracked electric customers in Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy, Suwannee, and Taylor counties are affected. Power outages are also increasing in Georgia, where approximately 54,000 electric customers were without power around midnight, local time. AccuWeather meteorologists predict more outages as Helene moves inland, with some outages potentially lasting several days to over a week.

The poll is significant because the economy is the “most important issue” to voters, as they weigh casting their ballot, the polling found. The economy outranked other issues as most important by 20 to 30 points across all major swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Brookhaven, GA (August 16, 2024) - At the request of the Brookhaven Police Department, GBI agents are investigating an officer involved shooting in Brookhaven, GA. Albert Eugene Burns, age 19, of Snellville, GA was shot and injured in the incident. No officers were injured. On Thursday, August 15, 2024, at about 11:00 p.m., Brookhaven PD officers responded to a home invasion call on Caldwell Road. While the homeowner was looking at her home surveillance video, she saw four armed gunmen inside her home. The homeowner contacted a friend who responded to the home and confronted the armed suspects. A shootout...

The AJC Editorial Board is publishing a front page editorial Sunday calling on President Joe Biden to step aside after Thursday’s debate in Atlanta. In an impassioned campaign rally on Friday, Biden tried to convince American voters that his alarming performance on a debate stage here in Atlanta the night before was an aberration

ATLANTA - One man is dead and three others are injured after police say an attempted car-break led to a gunfight in Downtown Atlanta. Police tell FOX 5 that the shooting happened around 11:30 p.m. on Monday on the 200 block of Auburn Avenue near the corner of Leonard Tate Street. Man killed in gunfight in Downtown Atlanta One man is dead and three others are injured after a gunfight over an attempted car break-in outside a Downtown Atlanta nightclub. ATLANTA - One man is dead and three others are injured after police say an attempted car-break led to a...

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As tens of millions of Americans routinely carry guns when they travel, some are bound to be stolen by thieves. A passenger who recently traveled through Atlanta believes he is the victim of such a theft. From fox5atlanta.com: “I said, ‘What happened?’ She said, ‘Your bag is delayed.’ I said, ‘What do you mean, delay?’ She said, ‘It didn’t make the flight.;”The gun owner says a helpful Delta agent in Fort Lauderdale told him the airline map indicated the gun was still in Atlanta.But once he returned to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Sunday, that story changed.“He goes to type...

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EVANS, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Before voting was even finished in a legislative runoff election, Columbia County officials called for a hand count of the ballots. The request came because of an early morning error in uploading the ballot for the Georgia House of Representatives District 125 primary runoff on Tuesday. The runoff coincided with the Georgia presidential primary. Officials requested that the Columbia County Board of Elections conduct a 100% hand count of the ballots before certifying the election results, regardless of the outcome. Election officials said the issue happened at 7:50 a.m. [snip] The Republican runoff is between Gary...

As I drove down the lengthy driveway of Mercy Montessori Center, I called my great aunt from Athens, Georgia, whom we lovingly call Aunt Puddien. Aunt Puddien is like another mother to me and I trusted her wisdom. She always introduced me to a relative or friend of the family as the teacher to which they responded with praise and affirmation. To them, loving and teaching our youth was a great honor despite the devaluation educators often experience. As an educator, I work within and around systems that are designed to lock out historically marginalized communities; this is why I...

One of the most visible purveyors of conspiracy theories that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election due to massive fraud has become one of the "witnesses for the state" in the former president's Georgia racketeering case, Fulton County prosecutors revealed on Wednesday. A once-celebrated defamation lawyer, attorney L. Lin Wood represented the parents of slain child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey and helped secure the vindication of Richard Jewell, the security guard falsely accused of plotting to set off pipe bombs at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. His efforts to help Trump overturn his electoral defeat have put him on...

The early defense strategies being pursued by former President Trump and his 18 co-defendants in Georgia are quickly complicating prosecutors’ aim to go to trial next month. District Attorney Fani Willis (D) is attempting to keep all of the co-defendants together for a singular trial beginning Oct. 23, but several legal maneuvers already underway pose deep challenges to Willis’s goal, which legal experts have called extraordinarily ambitious. So far, five defendants have attempted to move their charges to federal court, two have demanded a speedy trial and a majority have aimed to sever their charges from fellow co-defendants. Fulton County...

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ga. (WGXA) - An arrest has been made in a Friday night shooting in Milledgeville. According to a media release, the shooting happened on Friday, September 1st, 2023, at around 9:15 p.m. Officers with the Milledgeville Police Department responded to multiple 911 calls reporting shots fired in the vicinity of Wray Homes. Upon arriving at the scene, officers discovered several witnesses in the 400 block of Earnest Byner Street. These witnesses informed law enforcement that they had been sitting outdoors when an armed man approached them and began shooting. In self-defense, one of the victims, who possessed a...

Ajudge is set to rule soon on the first Georgia 2020 election co-defendant’s attempt to move their charges to federal court, a decision that could prove decisive for the future of Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis’s (D) criminal case. Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows wants U.S. District Judge Steve Jones to allow him to switch courts to attempt to get his charges thrown out on immunity grounds. It would also widen the jury pool to less Democrat-heavy areas and likely prevent a televised trial allowed by state law. If Meadows succeeds, legal experts say...

A federal judge has ordered a second evidentiary hearing for removal of the Fulton County case against former President Donald Trump and 18 others over violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in their challenge of the 2020 election results. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who is prosecuting the case, claimed the actions constituted a "criminal racketeering enterprise" and gave the 19 defendants until noon on Aug. 25 to surrender or face arrest. All defendants surrendered before the deadline. Jeffrey Clark, former Justice Department (DOJ) official, filed a notice of removal on Aug. 21, requesting that his...