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WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Georgia board declined Tuesday to stay the execution of a man sentenced to death in the killing of his former girlfriend. Willie James Pye, 59, is set to be executed Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson via lethal injection, in what […]
Clayton County Police Department (NEW YORK) — Law enforcement in Georgia said they seized hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine after discovering it in a storage unit. The Clayton County Police Department confirmed Tuesday, alongside the Drug Enforcement Administration, it had recovered 855 pounds of crystal meth. The drugs were recovered on Monday, police said. The […]
Nora Carol Photography/Getty Images (GEORGIA) — A controversial Republican-backed bill that would criminalize state bail funds and expand the list of charges that require cash or property bail has passed the Georgia Senate. The legislative move comes amid ongoing protests against the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, dubbed “Cop City” by its […]
Benjamin Reese, a teacher at Warner Robins Middle School in Georgia, has been charged with terroristic threats and acts of cruelty to children, according to the Houston County Sheriff’s Office. (Houston County Sheriff’s Office) (GEORGIA) — A Georgia teacher has been charged with terroristic threats and cruelty to children after he was accused of threatening […]
Bryan R. Smith/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss described living in a perpetual state of fear after Rudy Giuliani targeted the two Georgia election workers with conspiracy-fueled lies in the wake of the 2020 election. This week, a jury will tally the cost of those lies when Freeman and […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss will seek between $15.5 million and $43 million from Rudy Giuliani at a defamation trial slated to begin next month in a Washington, D.C., federal court, attorneys for the mother and daughter wrote in court documents filed Tuesday. A federal judge has already […]
Scott Eisen/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Georgia prosecutors who previously indicted former President Donald Trump have asked a judge to issue an emergency protective order to guard the evidence in the case, just hours after videos of confidential interviews with four defendants were obtained by news organizations. “On November 13, 2023, confidential video recordings of proffers […]
Innocence Project of Florida via AP (ST MARYS, Ga.) — A man who was wrongfully convicted and spent 16 years in jail was fatally shot by a Camden County deputy during a traffic stop in Georgia on Monday. Leonard Allan Cure, who was 53, was wrongfully convicted in 2003 of armed robbery, according to the criminal […]
Fulton County Sheriff’s Office (ATLANTA) — Three weeks before the scheduled start of his trial in Fulton County, a defendant in the Georgia election interference case is seeking to have the indictment against him dismissed based on an alleged paperwork error made by one of the lead special prosecutors in the case. Kenneth Chesebro, an […]
Alyssa Pointer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency in response to high inflation, blaming policies coming out of Washington, D.C. Kemp is temporarily suspending Georgia’s excise tax — taxes enforced on particular goods, services and activities — on motor and locomotive fuel, his office said in a […]
