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The lead prosecutor in the Ahmaud Arbery trial is already preparing to defend the three guilty verdicts on appeal. “It’s never over. You know that,” Cobb County Senior Assistant District Attorney Linda Dunikoski told the Daily Report Thursday during a phone interview that also included her boss, Cobb County District Attorney Flynn Broady Jr. “Once sentencing takes place—and we don’t actually have a firm date for sentencing—they’ll have 30 days to file their motions for new trial, which I’m assuming all of them will do,” Dunikoski said. Defense attorneys said they planned to appeal after the jury returned guilty verdicts...

The father and son who chased Ahmaud Arbery and shot him in February 2020 will die in prison after being sentenced to life without parole on Friday. Travis and Gregory McMichael were both sentenced to life without parole, while their neighbor William Roddie Bryan, 52, - who filmed the murder - will be eligible for parole. Judge Timothy R. Walmsley did not specify how long he would have to spend in prison - prosecutors asked that he spend at least 15 years behind bars. Typically, the minimum in Georgia is 30 years.

The arrest of William “Roddie” Bryan, the Glynn County man who shot the video of Ahmaud Arbery’s final seconds alive, constitutes a “substantial expansion of criminal liability in Georgia,” his lawyer told reporters Friday. Kevin Gough, who has maintained his client’s innocence, said there is “no precedent” for Bryan’s prosecution.

The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Friday that William Bryan, the neighbor who filmed Ahmaud Arbery's death, was not a good Samaritan or simply a witness as Bryan has claimed, but a significant player in the February killing of the unarmed black man. "If we believed he was a witness, we wouldn't have arrested him," GBI Director Vic Reynolds said Friday. "There's probable cause and we're comfortable with that." Bryan, who filmed the four-minute chase and shooting death of Arbery, was arrested Thursday evening. The 50-year-old was taken into custody and charged with felony murder and criminal...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will hold a news conference at 9 a.m. ET this morning to provide details on the arrest of William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case.

Kevin Gough, a lawyer for Mr. Bryan, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. In an interview last week, he said Mr. Bryan “had no role or involvement in that shooting. He has committed no crime. He is a witness.” Mr. Arbery’s family and civil-rights activists have pressed for weeks for authorities to charge Mr. Bryan, arguing he wasn’t simply a witness but was involved in the young man’s killing. In an April letter to the Glynn County Police Department, George Barnhill, the district attorney in Waycross who oversaw the case for a period before recusing himself, wrote that...

The owners of the Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey intend to re-open tomorrow after today's New Jersey State Health Department notice at the door of the gym closing it down...... The latest twist in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia is the arrest of the man who made a video of the killing used as evidence to arrest the first two suspects..... Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli set to plead guilty in the federal college admissions case alleging a scam tomorrow..... The FBI says that an attack this morning at the Corpus Christi Naval Air...

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has arrested the man who recorded cellphone video of Ahmaud Arbery being shot and killed. William “Roddie” Bryan, 50, shot the video that showed what appears to be Gregory and Travis McMichael shooting and killing Ahmaud Arbery while he was out jogging in February. In a news release, the GBI said it charged Bryan with felony murder and criminal contempt to commit false imprisonment.

An attorney for the family of Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, in February, says they want the man who recorded the incident arrested despite his attorney's claim that he was not involved in the death. "We are going to continue to push for the arrest of William Bryan for recording and participating in the ambush of Ahmaud Arbery," S. Lee Merritt, one of the attorneys for Arbery's family told CNN's Don Lemon. Bryan is the person who shot the video of the incident. Merritt's comments were in response to Kevin Gough, an attorney for Bryan,...

The Georgia man who filmed the shooting death of unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery says he’s “not proud” he did so — but he hopes it “helps in the end.” William “Roddie” Bryan, whose cell phone footage of the Feb. 23 incident sparked national outrage, told Good Morning America he has “tons of regrets” over the incident. “Yeah, I wish I hadn’t been there,” Bryan told the ABC-TV show Tuesday.

Walt & Lillian Disney with Richard Nixon and his family at Disneyland, 1959 We tend to think of Hollywood as a bastion of leftism, and rightly so. Books like Ron Radosh’s Red Star Over Hollywood demonstrate the deep-seated left-wing dominance of the entertainment industry. Even with the leftism prevalent in Hollywood’s Golden Age, many unabashed conservatives found success without compromising their principles, including one of the most creative minds in the business — Walt Disney.Several biographers and writers that I’ve read have tried to declare that Walt Disney was apolitical, but I find this conclusion not to be true....