ATLANTA, Ga. (WDEF) -- A federal correctional officer in Atlanta was indicted and arraigned for using excessive force on an inmate and writing a false report to justify it, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Justin Newkirk recently appeared…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama legislators will hold their first meeting next week to determine what the state's new congressional map should look like after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the state's existing plan unlawfully diluted the power of Black…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) -- It's the first day of summer, and that means a lot of things. One of those things is heat, especially here in our area.…
By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia election officials said Wednesday that they would need six to nine months to install new software and hardware to update the state’s voting system to protect against security flaws, pushing…
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (WDEF) - Governor Bill Lee says now is the time for local school districts and law enforcement to apply for new state funds to improve school security. The legislature this year…
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Two years after a former Gettysburg College student finally saw charges filed over her 2013 campus sexual assault, the man suspected of sending her a Facebook messages that said, “So I raped…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A former Augusta city commissioner was sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison after he was convicted of destroying records and lying about it to investigators. Sammie Lee Sias, 68, had his punishment handed down…
ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) - The Secretary of State says that Georgia's Election Board today dismissed the controversial investigation into the 2020 election results in Fulton County. The investigation found that the numerous allegations against the county election department and two…
ATLANTA (AP) — The owner of an auto repair shop who paid a former employee with 91,500 oily pennies has been ordered by a judge to pay nearly 4 million more cents. A federal judge ruled that Miles Walker, who…
ATLANTA (AP) — Entering court using a walker, a doctor's note clutched in his hand, 70-year-old Dana Williams, who suffers serious heart problems, hypertension and asthma, pleaded to delay eviction from his two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta. Although sympathetic, the judge…
NEW YORK (AP) — A fire at a New York City e-bike shop quickly spread to upper-floor apartments and killed four people early Tuesday in the latest deadly blaze linked to exploding lithium…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WDEF) -- The TBI recently addressed drug trends in the state. Along with a list of 10 well-known drugs, there are also new analogs on the horizon.…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Tropical Storm Bret formed in the central Atlantic Ocean on Monday, with forecasters saying it could pose a hurricane threat to the eastern Caribbean by Thursday and the Dominican Republic and Haiti by the…
DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — Five people were injured Sunday morning in a shooting outside a DeKalb County nightclub in Georgia, according to police. The DeKalb County Police Department told news outlets that the shooting happened around 3 a.m. outside the…
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — Multiple tornadoes swept through Mississippi overnight, killing one and injuring nearly two dozen, officials said Monday. State emergency workers were still working with counties to assess the damage from…
BROADWAY, N.C. (AP) — Five people were killed in a house fire in a rural North Carolina town on Sunday, authorities said. The Harnett County Sheriff's Office told news outlets that the cause of the fire in the Broadway community…
NASHVILLE (WDEF) - Tennessee's Attorney General announces a settlement with an online lingerie company for their membership program. The state will receive $2.35 million from Adore Me, Inc. The online retailer offered consumers discounts for signing up for their VIP…
By PETER SMITH Associated Press Abstract: The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold. It has rejected an appeal by the California megachurch of its ejection for having women pastors. Southern Baptist church representatives…
WARREN COUNTY, Tenn. (WDEF) -- A former drug investigator for the Warren County Sheriff's Department is facing indictment for misconduct. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) has been investigating the actions of 39-year-old…
By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Friday to helping two other men charged with fatally shooting rapper Young Dolph in a daytime ambush at a Memphis bakery. Jermarcus Johnson, 26, pleaded guilty…
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Joran van der Sloot, the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he attempted to extort money from the missing teen’s…
FLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama prisoner received a life sentence on Thursday for escaping with the help of a jail official who ultimately took her own life as police closed…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a surprising ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case, ordering the creation of a second district with a large Black…
NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at…