ATLANTA (AP) - A local free speech advocacy group is denouncing a bi-partisan proposal being considered by the state Senate to allow lottery winners to remain anonymous. The Georgia First Amendment Foundation says in a statement that allowing the government…
SafeWise applauds Summerville police for only one violent crime and 41 property crimes in 2016.
MANCHESTER, Tennessee (WDEF) The Coffee County Sheriff's Department is investigating threats to area students on social media. In the meantime, they are asking parents to keep their teens off of their phones and devices. The threats involve kidnapping, physical abuse…
Alabama attorney general says state will pursue death sentence for inmate despite Supreme Court ruling ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - The Latest on the stayed execution of Vernon Madison (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall says the…
ATLANTA (AP) - Federal authorities are seeking the public's help to locate a 25-year-old woman dubbed the "Freedom Fighter Bandit" who they say is behind a string of bank robberies in Georgia. The FBI's Atlanta office says the most recent…
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has delayed the execution of an Alabama inmate with dementia who lawyers say can't remember slaying a police officer. The court issued a stay Thursday night to consider arguments from 67-year-old Vernon…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Latest on the execution of Alabama inmate Vernon Madison (all times local): 5:45 p.m. The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily delayed the execution of an Alabama inmate. Vernon Madison is scheduled to be put to…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Attorneys for the city of Memphis and a nonprofit contend it's too late for a judge to tell them how to manage Confederate statues removed from two parks. In Davidson County Chancery Court Thursday, Allan Wade…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia advocacy groups say a slate of anti-immigrant proposals backed by conservative lawmakers are hurting Atlanta's chances of attracting Amazon's second headquarters. Flanked by Democratic state lawmakers, the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia and other advocacy…
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia lawmakers are moving forward with a proposal to prevent the state government from issuing non-English communications, with some exceptions. The Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday approved Sen. Joshua McKoon's proposed constitutional amendment to name English as…
NEW YORK (WDEF) - We still don't know just why Harold Ford Jr. was fired from his job at Morgan Stanley. The man who lost a Senate race to Bob Corker has spent the last seven years recruiting clients for…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - The Tennessee Comptroller's Office has found several issues with the University of Tennessee Sports Surface Management department. The audit found that the director violated university policy by accepting at least two paid trips and entertainment from a…
SUMMERVILLE, Georgia (WDEF) The Georgia Bureau of Investigation will investigate the death of a prisoner at the Chattooga County jail on Tuesday. Sheriff Schrader says that the suspect was brought in just before 4PM on a traffic offense. While he…
ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) - Authorities in Alabama say four teenagers have been arrested after a family awakened to gunfire coming into their home. Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew Wade told Al.com the family was awakened to gunfire Monday around 4:30 a.m.…
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Police say a shootout in Georgia has left a slaying suspect dead and an officer hospitalized with several gunshot wounds. Savannah-Chatham County Interim Police Chief Mark Revenew told news outlets it happened early Tuesday as his…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - Country singer Lari White Cannon has died after a brief battle with cancer. She was only diagnosed with the rare and aggressive peritoneal cancer in October. White entered a Hospice facility last night. The family had begun…
FORT PAYNE, Alabama (WDEF) - Police chased a suspect Monday night from Fort Payne to Valley Head, where he wrecked. Officers say it started when a station wagon ran a red light at the South Y and Gault Avenue intersection…
ELLIJAY, Ga. (AP) - Authorities say 16 students aboard a school bus in Georgia were taken to hospitals after the bus rolled on to its side. Georgia news outlets report that none of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening.…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let it proceed with this week's scheduled execution of a 67-year-old inmate whose lawyers say can no longer remember his crime. The Alabama attorney general's office told justices…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police in Nashville say an officer was injured after his patrol car was struck by a vehicle whose driver was charged with drunken driving.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - People killed by gunfire in Alabama have increased 22 percent within a seven-year period.
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) - A $23 million funding proposal could expand pre-K programs in Alabama.
ATLANTA (WDEF) - The ringleader of a credit card theft ring was sentenced today in Atlanta. Prosecutors says Quentin Pickett and his co-conspirators stole credit cards from the secured baggage loading area at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and from a private…
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