5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1129+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta 🌤️ Mostly sunny and 85° today. 🫡 Warm Springs police officer Sgt. Christopher Fisher, who was fatally shot on Sept. 1, will be laid to rest today in Fayetteville. 🏈 The Falcons plan to start quarterback Tua Tagovailoa against the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (331+ words) The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is sending a lawsuit over Georgia’s 2021 political maps back to a lower court, ordering it to reexamine an earlier ruling that concluded the state’s maps were racially discriminatory. The decision comes a few months after…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (292+ words) As proud Atlanta Jews, we are delighted to have Jon Ossoff representing us and the citizens of Georgia in the United States Senate. That may sound like a simple political statement. It isn’t. In a moment when American politics increasingly…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (687+ words) Using artificial intelligence to scan public databases, a Princeton University researcher has exploited a known weakness in Georgia’s voting system to identify, with fair certainty, how more than 2,200 people voted in Cherokee and Heard counties in the May primaries. Georgia…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (212+ words) Georgia health officials moved to include low-income people living with certain HIV diagnoses among those considered “medically frail,” meaning they would not have to satisfy work requirements to qualify for Medicaid coverage. HIV had initially been left off the list,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (239+ words) The race for Georgia governor is well underway, and Democratic candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms is on a tour across the southeast which started Wednesday. This morning, Bottoms was at a "coffee and conversation" at Kinlaw Rosenwald School in Woodbine. This…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (272+ words) A federal judge has quashed a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking personal information from the nearly 3,000 Georgians who served as Fulton County election workers and volunteers during the 2020 election, dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s escalating effort…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (615+ words) A conservative Georgia radio host is sticking to his promise and is supporting Democrat Jon Ossoff for the U.S. Senate, a significant idealogical shift. Shelley Wynter, the host of The Shelley Wynter show on 95.5 WSB in Atlanta, endorsed Ossoff during an…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (166+ words) An expensive slugfest between two Republican candidates for governor fighting for the party’s nomination came to an end Tuesday night. Jones had been considered the frontrunner in the contest for the GOP nomination before Jackson upended the race in February…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (922+ words) ATLANTA — Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and entrepreneur Rick Jackson have a few things in common. Both are wealthy, but one is wealthier. Both say they are aligned with President Donald Trump, though Trump has endorsed only one of them. Both…...