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We're working to learn more about a massive fire that destroyed a historic courthouse in Floyd County, Georgia Monday afternoon. Video captured at the scene shows flames ripping through the structure, which was built in 1892. The courthouse was undergoing renovations at the time of the fire

Metro Atlanta law enforcement groups say they will be cracking down on what they call "teen takeovers" over this weekend and in the future after a series of events ended with violence and arrest. The so-called "takeover" events have spread on social media across the metro area and around the country. Officials say the events have caused traffic disruptions, fighting, assaults, and property damage. "These takeovers need to stop. They need to come to an end. They are causing chaos and violence, and we want the public to be safe," Atlanta Police Deputy Chief Jason K. Smith said at a...

On late Tuesday afternoon, a gunman opened fire at a VA Clinic in Jasper, Georgia, resulting in one employee being critically injured. According to the Jasper Police Chief Matt Dawkins, a gunman opened fire at the clinic and shot a Veterans Affairs employee. Jasper police quickly responded to the scene and fatally shot the gunman outside the clinic. The employee was immediately airlifted to a local hospital, where their condition is unknown.

At least 2,000 flights were canceled Sunday as winter blizzards continue to batter the Upper Midwest, turning at least one normally bustling airport into a virtual ghost town. According to the latest data from FlightAware, U.S. flight cancellations Sunday accounted for roughly 78% of all canceled flights worldwide, with at least 2,216 flights grounded out of roughly 2,842 global cancellations. Meanwhile, an additional 6,826 delays have reportedly rippled across the national air network, further straining travel schedules across the world. Many airlines have since issued guidelines allowing passengers to change their flights without major fees, providing flexibility for travelers affected...

Changing of the cards. Disgraced “Dolton Dictator” Tiffany Henyard dumped the Democratic Party and is running as a Republican in Georgia in an attempted political comeback over a year after her embarrassing ouster in Illinois. Henyard, who described herself as a “super mayor,” filed to run as a Republican in Georgia’s Fulton County Board of Commissioners election in May, according to county election records. The 42-year-old is vying for the District 5 commissioner’s seat and is one of five current contenders, but is the only GOP candidate. District 5 encompasses the southwestern suburbs of Atlanta, including South Fulton, Union City...

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The suns begins to set on the Capitol building after the sixth failed vote to elect a Speaker of the House and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris are advancing to a runoff to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, according to Decision Desk HQ. All candidates, regardless of party, ran on one ballot in the special election for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District in the northwest corner of the state. Fuller and Harris, a retired brigadier general and cattle producer,...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled Monday to block intervention by District Attorney Fani Willis in the legal battle over paying attorneys fees related to the indictment of President Donald Trump. The president, some of his co-defendants and their attorneys are in the midst of seeking more than $16 million, collectively, in legal fee recovery due to the dismissal of the indictment. In her role as DA, Willis was seeking to prevent the payment of the $16 million citing, among other reasons, how it would impact the office’s budget and subsequent ability to perform...

Add another one to the continuing flight from the business hellhole that is California. Looks like now Yamaha, a Japanese company which has been in California for 50 years, is out the door, moving to Georgia as part of major structural reforms to cut costs The relocation won’t happen overnight. Yamaha plans to start the exit in late 2026, with the transition stretching into 2028. Company spokesman Bob Starr said consolidating operations in Georgia simply makes business sense. “In terms of efficiency, to have us all together in Georgia — all the functions of the business — it makes a...

It's Primary Day in Republican-dominated Mississippi, where House and Senate nomination contests are being held in the Deep South state. But a special congressional election 200 miles to the east in battleground Georgia to fill a vacant GOP-held congressional seat will likely grab much more national attention Tuesday. The race is to fill the seat in Georgia's solidly red 14th Congressional District — in the northwest part of the state — left vacant when MAGA firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down at the beginning of January. Greene quit Congress with a year left in her term, after a...

Ousted Dolton mayor Tiffany Henyard has apparently not lost her appetite for elected office despite a long list of grievances, bills and legal judgements left in her wake. The democrat has qualified as a republican candidate for a seat on the Fulton County, Georgia, board of commissioners. It comes as WGN Investigates has learned Henyard’s troubled time in Chicago’s south suburbs now also includes a new $10,000 judgement from a case filed by her former landlord. Genetta Hull accused Henyard and her boyfriend of failing to pay rent for a home she lived in while serving as Dolton’s mayor. “I’m...

A Georgia high school teacher was fatally run over outside his home in a freak accident when five teens targeted his house in a late-night prank gone wrong. Jason Hughes, a math teacher at North Hall High School, was investigating commotion outside his Gainesville, Ga., home around 11:40 p.m. Thursday when he allegedly spotted pranksters “rolling” toilet paper across his property, 11 Alive reported, citing the Hall County Sheriff’s Office. The 40-year-old educator stepped outside his home and walked over to the cars that 18-year-old Jayden Wallace and four other teens were getting into to flee the area. Hughes allegedly...

JACKSON COUNTY, Ga. — Battery company SK Battery America Inc. laid off nearly 1,000 workers at a manufacturing plant northeast of Atlanta on Friday amid automakers’ changing electrification plans and uncertain consumer demand for EVs. The company said Friday marked the last working day for 958 plant employees, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, notice filed by human resources chief Chuck Moore. Impacted workers will be paid through May 6. SK opened the $2.6 billion battery plant in Commerce, Georgia, in January 2022. It notably supplied the Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck. Ford announced plans...

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Sunday said President Trump could attempt to use a national emergency declaration to cancel midterm elections. Greene said she could “see it” happening in a post on the social platform X made in response to a post from radio host Shannon Joy.

On Ukraina television last week, viewers caught images of Viktor Yushchenko, the opposition candidate in this country's contested presidential election, greeting voters and kissing babies, standard glad-handing by a pol on the stump. The broadcast of benevolent images of Yushchenko on a Russian language channel that stridently supports his opponent, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, was short-lived. Just as suddenly, the sequence cut to historical footage of Adolf Hitler, also greeting supporters and caressing the foreheads of German children thrust toward him by their beaming parents. The message, one that has been hammered home for months now, was clear: Yushchenko is...

Photo via Wikimedia Commons. In December 2025, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia, seeking access to the 2020 election records, citing the federal law that grants the Justice Department jurisdiction to investigate federal elections. Fulton County refused, leading the Justice Department to infer that these public officials were hiding evidence of a crime. Thereafter, the Justice Department served a criminal search warrant on the Fulton County Election Records Office. Fulton County immediately filed an emergency motion to return the records. This led to the unsealing of the Justice Department’s search warrant affidavit, giving the public a...

Three Georgia senators are proposing a constitutional amendment that would allow a statewide grand jury to investigate election violations. Senate Resolution 875 says the grand juries could investigate election violations from anywhere in the state. The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia would appoint a Superior Court judge to oversee the grand jury. The attorney general would appoint a legal adviser, according to the bill. Georgia voters would decide in November if the resolution becomes part of the state constitution. "We have had this, I guess just a series of issues involving voting, different accusations, different prosecutions of...

TLANTA, Ga. (WALB) - Millions of Georgia power customers could see lower electricity bills after the U.S. Department of Energy closed a $26.5 billion loan package for Southern Company, the largest loan in the department’s history. Officials said the deal is expected to save customers more than $7 billion in electricity costs by reducing the utility’s interest expenses. Southern Company has announced plans for multi-year rate freezes as part of the partnership with the federal government.

The Biden Justice Department "invited" Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to apply for a lucrative sole-source grant in 2022 at the same time that she was pursuing an election interference investigation against Donald Trump, the eventual GOP competitor to President Joe Biden, internal correspondence obtained by Just the News reveals. “I want to document your recognition of our progress and services provided with dynamic partners, as we complete sole source steps for our new grant award, a grant in which you invited us to apply,” Willis wrote to Justice Department Senior Policy Advisor Scott Pestridge in the Office of...

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis coordinated extensively with the Biden Justice Department and White House as well as Democrats on the House Jan. 6 investigative committee as she built a failed criminal case against President Donald Trump and his allies related to their challenge to Georgia's 2020 election results, according to a trove of internal communications obtained by Just the News.The memos show that President Joe Biden's top White House lawyer personally opened the door for Willis' prosecutors to interview Trump administration officials by waiving claims of executive privilege, that federal prosecutors waived certain rights to allow the interviews...