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Smith State Prison

Warden hired to guard a Georgia prison indicted in contraband operation

Former Smith State Prison warden Brian Adams was indicted Wednesday on multiple charges related to a contraband operation in the prison.

Zachary Foster

She waited years for justice in her son’s death. A guilty but mentally ill plea came.

Just before jury selection, Jalen Ivan Brown pleaded guilty but mentally ill in Zachary Foster’s deadly shooting at the Covington General Mills plant where he worked.

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Raffensperger campaign says threatening ‘manifesto’ received before Macon scare

Bomb disposal crews found a suspicious object but no hazardous device as the Republican candidate for governor campaigns in the final days before the primary.

Georgia News
Northside drive flooding

Daily showers through Memorial Day and beyond to bring rain, flood risks

Daily rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected Thursday through the holiday weekend and beyond for all of North and Middle Georgia, the National Weather Service says.

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Hurry up and deepen? Study funded to ‘fast-track’ dredging at Savannah port.

Georgia Ports Authority has agreed to invest $8 million or more for a feasibility study on deepening and widening the 33-mile-long Savannah River shipping channel.

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Voting Rights Act impact story

The Voting Rights Act changed Georgia. Now Black officials fear ‘the worst.’

Georgia state senator calls the gutting of much of what remained of the Voting Rights Act a “wake-up call” requiring return to the political unity of the Civil Rights Movement

Crime & Public Safety
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is housed in the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in Atlanta. (Image: U.S. Dist

Former Alpharetta officer sentenced to 7 years for child pornography

John Hagen Allen, a former Alpharetta police officer, was indicted in 2024 and pleaded guilty in February.

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Flash flood snarls Atlanta traffic during rush hour

Flash flooding hit the Downtown Connector in downtown Atlanta. Areas near Freedom Parkway, Peachtree Street and the Pine Street exits were impacted by flooding.

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Supreme Court justices defeat election challenges from attorneys

Georgia Supreme Court justices Sarah Hawkins Warren and Charlie Bethel defeated election challenges Tuesday from attorneys Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin in nonpartisan races.

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Evergreen Business - Home Depot

Home Depot: Consumer ‘remarkably resilient’ despite rising costs, uncertainty

DeKalb school bus drivers’ concerns: raises, retirement, respect

DeKalb high school student shot at bus stop, police say

DeKalb leaders

Two DeKalb schools leaders were suspended, demoted. Now they’re suing.

World Cup hotel bookings

We full? What Atlanta hotel bookings for World Cup look like.

Volunteers get ready for the start of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta in 2023. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

Volunteers needed for 2026 Peachtree Road Race

What Hermeus’ Atlanta future looks like

How Atlanta fits into hypersonic plane startup Hermeus’ future

GOP urges Kemp to call a special session to redraw maps after court ruling

Supreme Court challengers violated judicial rules, state watchdog alleges

Virginia-Highland retail purchase

Krog Street Market owner targets Virginia-Highland with $17.3M acquisition