Mega Millions winner bought ticket just 41-miles from where numbers were drawn – CBS News Watch CBS News A single-ticket won the $980 million Mega Millions prize after hitting the jackpot Friday. CBS News’ Dave Malkoff reports. Source link
Source: SDI Productions / Getty Often relied upon to carry the burden of saving democracy and the country from itself, Black voters showed up for themselves and their communities in 2025. Recent state and local elections offered a glimpse of the possibility and hope of what’s possible when Black voters are engaged on the issues…
A single ticket holder in Georgia nabbed the state’s largest jackpot ever in a Mega Millions drawing Friday night — $980 million. Friday’s winning numbers were 1-8-11-12-57 and the Mega Ball was 7. The single ticket was purchased at Publix in Newnan, Georgia, Mega Millions said. Newnan is about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta. The…
President Trump said he will no longer support Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, marking a dramatic break with a onetime Trump loyalist who has increasingly criticized the president and her party’s leadership in recent weeks. In an almost 300-word missive on Truth Social Friday night, the president said Greene “has gone Far Left,” and…
A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of the three men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, had been jogging in the neighborhood. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court…
IN MANY FORMERLY democratic countries, the road to one-party rule has been long and winding. Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party seems to have decided to take the expressway. On November 6th prosecutors charged eight of the country’s leading opposition figures, including a former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, with plotting to carry out a coup. They…
Meet Atlanta’s urban cowboy – CBS News Watch CBS News A Georgia man is living his dream in a saddle. CBS Atlanta’s Brian Unger reports on a real-life urban cowboy. Source link
A man was sentenced to life without parole after being found guilty of rape and other charges in Coweta County Superior Court last month. The conviction stems from a March 2020 incident where Brett Tyler Brown, now 40, assaulted a 17-year-old girl in Sharpsburg, Georgia. Brown had access to the victim through her mother, with…
Editor’s note: The wrong photo accompanied this column in the Oct. 31 print edition of The Macon Melody due to a technical glitch. The image was not related to the column’s subject. We regret the error and apologize for any confusion. Macon Fashion Week organizers and fashion designers are set to debut a weeklong series…
MARTA riders will soon notice big changes at train stations and on buses as the agency rolls out a completely new fare collection system designed to make traveling faster, simpler, and more secure. On Monday morning, Deputy General Manager Rhonda Allen joined Interim General Manager and CEO Jonathan J. Hunt and MARTA Board Chair Jennifer…