Both sides score partial wins in Georgia elections lawsuit
Voters wait in line outside a polling place in Atlanta during the primary election on June 9, 2020. (Photo by Beau Evans) ATLANTA - A federal court judge has handed both sides in a lawsuit over a controversial election reform bill the General Assembly passed two years...
Georgia case against Trump just beginning
ATLANTA - The indictment of former President Donald Trump in Fulton County Aug. 14 on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia was the culmination of two and a half years of investigation. But in another sense, the case is only beginning...
Fuel loading starts at Plant Vogtle Unit 4
ATLANTA - Fuel loading has begun at the second of two new nuclear reactors being built at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle. The first of the new reactors - Unit 3 - began commercial operations late last month seven years behind the original schedule. The start of fuel...
Section of westbound I-16 closed for bridge repairs
ATLANTA - The Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) has closed a seven-mile stretch of westbound Interstate 16 north of Soperton following the discovery of settlement in the supports holding up a bridge. DOT bridge inspectors discovered the problem Aug. 4 during...
Georgia man sentenced to federal prison for pandemic relief fraud
ATLANTA - A Georgia man has been sentenced to one year and nine months in federal prison for obtaining nearly a half million dollars through fraudulent pandemic relief loan applications. Maurice Lawson, 39, of Lithia Springs also will be on supervised release for...
Georgia unemployment rate holds firm in July
ATLANTA - Georgia's unemployment rate held steady last month at 3.2%, three-tenths of a percent lower than the national average, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. The labor force was up by 9,038 in July to more than 5.3 million, an all-time high, with...
Rivian EV plant bonds get final go-ahead
ATLANTA - The same judge who refused last year to validate bonds financing a $5 billion Rivian electric vehicle manufacturing plant east of Atlanta now has signed off on the bonds. Superior Court Judge Brenda Trammell has signed an order validating the bonds following...
Georgia Supreme Court removes suspended judge from Court of Appeals
ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday removed suspended Judge Christian Coomer from the state Court of Appeals. In a unanimous decision, the justices upheld the recommendation of a state Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) hearing panel, which found...