1. North Carolina governor backpedals on state's new anti-LGBT law. After a two-week storm of cancelled conventions and threatened boycotts, Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina began back-pedaling on the state's new law that limits protections for gays, lesbians and transgender people. [Read more]
2. Police: Georgia football players caused $1,000 in damage with BB gun. Georgia freshman football players Julian Rochester and Chad Clay spent about 12 hours in a Clarke County jail Tuesday, each accused of two felonies, on charges related to shooting and possessing a BB gun in their residence hall on the Georgia campus. [Read more]
3. Georgia Insurance Commissioner warns of massive Allstate rate hike. Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens on Monday issued a "consumer alert" after Allstate filed for a 25 percent auto insurance rate hike that will take effect May 22. [Read more]
4. Harris jury pool questioned on everything from sex to Nancy Grace. Potential jurors in the Ross Harris trial spent a good part of Tuesday answering questions about their TV viewing habits, feelings about law enforcement and sex lives. [Read more]
5. Atlanta charter school leader arrested in connection with thefts. The founder of a group of Atlanta-area charter schools accused of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the schools has been arrested. [Read more]
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