Georgia baseball carried the nation’s second-longest winning streak into Friday night’s sold-out SEC opener with Kentucky at Foley Field. The fifth-ranked Bulldogs extended their streak in comeback fashion, 12-6, by blasting three homers after losing pitcher Kolten Smith to cramping and second baseman Ryan Black to a quad injury. “Everybody asks me what I thought…
Eight alleged members and associates of Atlanta’s “GoodFellas” gang have been charged with violent crimes including attempted murder and attempted carjacking, according to an indictment that was unsealed in the Northern District of Georgia on Thursday. The Department of Justice referred to the group as a “violent gang” that recruits members from Atlanta neighborhoods and…
The body of an Atlanta teacher and coach who vanished last month while boating on Georgia’s Lake Oconee has been recovered from waters not far from where his fiancée was found dead shortly after their outing, a sheriff told news outlets Sunday. Sheriff Howard Sills of Putnam County told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Gary Jones’…
Controversy over Georgia’s Stone Mountain Confederate monument – CBS News Watch CBS News In Stone Mountain, Georgia, the shadow of the state’s Confederate history casts a wide shadow — literally. It’s home to the country’s largest Confederate monument, with Confederate President Jefferson Davis and generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson carved on the…
Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park — once home to the Ku Klux Klan and the site of the largest Confederate carving in the country — has been a point of contention for years. The 3,200-acre park sees more than 4 million visitors each year, but it’s best known for the large carving of Confederate President Jefferson…
Tributes for Leonard Cure after being killed by Georgia trooper Tributes for Leonard Cure after being killed by Georgia trooper 02:31 A Georgia sheriff’s deputy won’t face criminal charges for fatally shooting a Black man during a 2023 traffic stop that spiraled into a violent struggle, the district attorney who examined body camera video and…
A Georgia man who pleaded guilty to bombing a woman’s home in a bizarre plot that included conspiring to “release a large python into the victim’s home to eat the victim’s daughter,” was sentenced to 20 years in prison, authorities announced. Stephen Glosser, 38, of Savannah, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison after…
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) – Georgia wants to be the leader when it comes to domestic electric vehicles and the battery supply chain. Tuesday elected officials and industry leaders took part in a panel discussion at Savannah Technical College. The Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) Education Fund hosted the round table. From battery manufacturing to automotive…
A woman who gave birth to a baby boy that wasn’t hers due to an embryo transfer mix-up filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a fertility clinic in Georgia after she was forced to give up the 5-month-old infant. Krystena Murray, a White woman, realized something went wrong at the Coastal Fertility Specialists clinic in May…
The fatal shooting of a police officer responding to a shopping center in Georgia is under investigation, authorities said Saturday. A suspect, identified as 23-year-old Edward Espinoza, was taken into custody. The police officer, who has not been identified, responded to a report of a suspicious person in the parking lot of a pickleball club…