5 things to know tonight: Georgia early voting machine suspected of 'flipping' presidential votes

1. Georgia early voting machine suspected of 'changing votes.' A voting machine in Bryan County that may have been "flipping" some Georgia voters' picks for president has been removed from service, after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the problem to state elections officials. [Read more]

2. Minute-by-minute updates in the Ross Harris trial. This is a running account of the Justin Ross Harris murder trial. Harris is accused of intentionally leaving his son in a hot car to die on June 18, 2014. [Read more]

3. 3 dead in quadruple shooting in Henry County. Police continued their investigation Thursday into an overnight quadruple shooting as owners of the home where the gruesome crime took place cut short a trip to Florida to rush home. [Read more]

4. Justice Clarence Thomas accused of groping, harassment. A lawyer claims Clarence Thomas groped her at a dinner party in 1999 when he was on the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a published report. [Read more]

5. UGA car crash survivor Agnes Kim released from rehab center. Six months after a crash killed four of her University of Georgia classmates, the survivor has been released from the Shepherd Center. [Read more]

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