State lawmakers worked till late evening Tuesday, as they hurried to pass legislations affecting income taxes, treatment for opioid addiction and state strategies for some other concerns, all in Georgia.
People are actually debating how long racially-motivated assault convicts should go to prison, for terrorizing a black child with a shotgun in Georgia.
Georgia Republican Governor Nathan Deal vetoed bill that allow college students to carry concealed guns onto campuses with some restrictions. The bill was passed by legislature on March 11 2016.
On Tuesday, Governor Nathan Deal signed into a law a bill that gives police officers who use deadly force a special privilege that allows them to make a statement before a grand jury. While it is also be mandatory for them to answer questions, they are not allowed to sit through the entire proceeding.
Father Rene Robert's body was recovered in Waynesboro on Monday. The priest was missing for more than a week and was last seen on Orange Park Medical Center.
The Religious Liberty Bill passed by the Georgia state legislature has been hailed as a protection of religious freedom by supporters, while criticized as 'state-sanctioned discrmination' by opponents.
The House of Respressentatives and the Senate of Georgia have passed a new revised form of the Religious Freedom bill. The new version will increase the protection of same-sex marriage opponents against the law.
Georgia changed its treatment inside prisons towards transgender inmates. After the settlement over the lawsuit of former transgender inmate Ashley Diamond, the state changes its treatment towards transgender inmates.
Georgia is set to execute its oldest death row inmate Tuesday, after a federal appeals court refused to hear a challenge to the law governing lethal injection.
Rapper Future’s ex-bodyguard Michael Phillips, whose wife is 9 months pregnant, was shot and killed in his home. Future refuses to talk to cops for any information about the incident.
Georgia will get $6.5 million as part of over $250 million of nationwide settlement with Millennium Health over allegation that the drug testing company billed federal health care programs for unnecessary urine drug testing.
A 45-year-old resident of Rome, Floyd County in Georgia is currently facing serious drug possession charges after her vehicle was pulled over on Maple Road on Sunday, January 10, due to her failure to maintain lane while driving.
Oklahoma's governor granted a last-minute stay of execution on Wednesday to an inmate convicted of hiring a hit man, saying the state needed time to determine if one of three drugs it planned to use complies with its court-approved procedures.
The U.S. state of Georgia executed its only woman on death row on Wednesday, marking the first time in 70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a prison official said.
The former Soviet republics of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are moving inexorably from the orbit of a Russian state that promotes values fundamentally alien to its neighbors, according to Georgia's president.
A bill that would legalize medical marijuana in Georgia for patients with seizure disorders and other medical conditions cleared a big hurdle on Wednesday when the state House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved the legislation.
A former police officer shot a Georgia county sheriff and his deputy when they intervened in a domestic dispute in which three people were killed, local media said on Monday.
Gun related deaths of U.S. law enforcement officers rose by 56 percent in 2014 compared to the previous year, with about one-third of officers killed in an ambush, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund said on Tuesday.
