News for Metro Atlanta and Region
Mom charged in son’s hot car death may leave jail for funeral, Gwinnett judge says
A mother charged in the July 29 hot car death of her son will be allowed to leave jail to attend his Saturday funeral, according to a court order.
Head of Georgia firm accused in massive Ponzi scheme gets 20 years in prison
Drive Planning founder and CEO Todd Burkhalter was sentenced to prison Friday for what federal prosecutors say was Georgia’s largest Ponzi scheme.
I-285 shutdown: Another round of construction scheduled for SW Atlanta
Interstate will close in both directions between Exit 7 (Cascade Road) and Exit 9 (Martin Luther King Jr. Drive).
Battery storage company to build $141M manufacturing hub east of Atlanta
Korean battery storage firm DeltaX announced Friday it will invest $141 million to establish its North American manufacturing headquarters in Walton County.
A voting rights suit transformed Fayette County. Could it now slide back?
A voting rights lawsuit transformed Fayette County a decade ago. Could it now slide back in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's voting rights decision?
Georgia Power deal to serve $20B OpenAI data center goes under the microscope
Georgia Power’s deal to power an OpenAI campus near Savannah is drawing scrutiny and reviving debates about how to keep residential customers safe from data center costs.
Feds say he ran a $165M crypto scam and fled to Fiji. He’s back and facing charges.
Officials say Edward Zimbardi tricked people out of $165 million in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that advertised 25% monthly returns.
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Customs asked for his phone passcode. Now he faces a felony.
Authorities say Sam Tunick gave Customs officers a passcode that deleted his phone’s contents when they asked to search it. He now faces a felony charge.
2 missing girls kidnapped by babysitter found safe, Atlanta police say
The girls, ages 4 and 11 months, were abducted by their babysitter, and found in a private trailer in southwest Atlanta, Monday afternoon.
