Feds probe MARTA safety, spending after two stabbings ahead of World Cup
ATLANTA — The federal government will review safety protocols and security spending at Atlanta's transit agency after two stabbing attacks last week, one of them fatal. The investigation comes as Atlanta’s Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority was supposed to...
Georgia high court scraps vaccine‑based pause on executions
ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court has removed a pandemic-era barrier to executions, checking off a legal condition that must be met before ending the lives of certain inmates sentenced to death. The decision overturned a lower court ruling that had put executions on...
Alone on debate stage, Burt Jones backs GOP election changes and slams opponent Rick Jackson for skipping
ATLANTA — The final Republican gubernatorial primary debate revealed more about Lt. Gov. Burt Jones than it did about billionaire Rick Jackson, as the latter declined to attend. Or maybe it revealed a lot about Jackson, Jones said, speaking next to an empty lectern in...
Lieutenant governor hopefuls sharpen personal attacks in debate about leading Georgia Senate
ATLANTA — Most of Georgia's statewide primary races have been settled on either the Democratic or Republican ticket, but the race for leadership of the state Senate remains up for grabs on both sides of the aisle. While not a senator, the lieutenant governor presides...
Fat in Georgia’s budget may have saved their bacon
ATLANTA — Things were looking grim for Georgia's wild pigs during this year's legislative session, but they found partial salvation in lawmakers who larded their own budget with too much pork. Gov. Brian Kemp, in his effort to balance the budget, cut hundreds of...
Georgia Power to send smaller electricity bills after new rate agreement with regulator
ATLANTA — Georgia Power customers will see a slight reduction in power bills after the state agency that regulates the monopoly utility approved rate changes Thursday. The Public Service Commission, an elected body with five members, had previously frozen the...
Georgia voters to get final look at runoff candidates in Sunday and Monday debates
ATLANTA — Voters recovering from the long list of candidates that greeted them on their primary election ballots last week will have to return to the polls soon for runoff elections. The Atlanta Press Club will help voters make informed choices with a final round of...
Federal court says Georgia’s Medicaid rules shortchanged medically fragile 3-year-old
ATLANTA — The policies that Georgia uses to approve or deny services for children enrolled in Medicaid fail to satisfy federal requirements for adequate care, according to a new federal court ruling. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...