Fulton County

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged fraud in Georgia’s most populous county during the 2020 election.

Four inmates escaped from a county jail in western Illinois and authorities advised area residents to remain locked in their homes as they searched Thursday for the men.

Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard, Jr., announced 11 charges against former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe in the death of Rayshard Brooks.

A federal judge overseeing a challenge to Georgia’s outdated voting system said that after years of inaction in the face of warnings about vulnerabilities, state officials have finally taken a solid step in the right direction. But she foreshadowed a looming fight over the state’s new system, writing that “it may be ‘like ‘déjà vu all over again.'” U.S. District...

Georgia allowed its election system to grow “way too old and archaic” and now has a deep hole to dig out of to ensure that the constitutional right to vote is protected, according to U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg. Now Totenberg is in the difficult position of having to decide whether the state, which plans to implement a new voting...

The Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage said in an interview aired Friday that he didn’t talk about his British citizenship before because he didn’t want to get deported.

Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage was released on bond Tuesday after spending more than a week in federal immigration custody, his lawyers said. The rapper, whose given name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested during a targeted immigration operation early on Feb. 3. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said at the time that the British citizen had overstayed his visa and...

Nearly twice as many early or absentee ballots have been counted in the 2018 elections, already far outpacing the total from 2014, NBC News reported. More than 24 million votes were counted with six days to go before Election Day. At the same point in 2014, just shy of 13 million votes had been counted, signifying a shift among voters...

The mother of three children who died while crossing a busy street to get to their school bus had complained to her kids’ school district about the hazard years before her children were tragically killed, her friend and neighbor told NBC 5.

A 24-year-old woman has been charged in the deaths of three children who were struck and killed Tuesday morning at a school bus stop in Indiana, police said.

Drawing on her years of military experience, Maureen Heard was careful to follow all the rules when she filled out an absentee ballot for the 2016 election. She read the instructions thoroughly, signed where she was supposed to, put the ballot in its envelope and dropped it off at her county elections office in New Hampshire. She then left town...

Three children, believed to be all from the same family, were struck and killed at a school bus stop in Indiana Tuesday morning, police said.

The musician was scheduled to perform in Atlanta on Wednesday as part of G-Eazy’s The Endless Summer Tour

Bobbi Kristina Brown’s ex-boyfriend Nick Gordon has been arrested on two charges, one for domestic violence battery and the other for kidnapping/false imprisonment of an adult in Florida.
The 28-year-old was taken into custody and booked in Sanford, Florida, on Saturday, according to the booking sheet.

A small plane crashed into a suburban Atlanta neighborhood Friday evening, killing the pilot and setting a house ablaze, officials said. The Cessna Citation I crashed about 7:20 p.m. about 3 miles northeast of Cobb County International Airport, according to FAA spokesman Rick Breitenfeldt. The plane, on its way from Wilmington, Delaware, to Fulton County Airport, crashed next to a...

Steven Wise has been trying for years, unsuccessfully, to get courts to grant “habeas corpus” for the chimps — Latin meaning literally “you have the body” and demanding that a person be released from unlawful imprisonment.

A man hired women to work as dancers inside a million-dollar mansion and threatened to kill at least one of them if she tried to leave, according to a 911 call. Officers helped eight women leave the home after the 911 call was made Tuesday morning, police said Wednesday in a news release. In the 911 recording, the caller cryptically...

Authorities say the rapper Shawty Lo was killed in a fiery car crash on a freeway near southwest Atlanta.

Katt Williams has been arrested again, the latest in a series of encounters the comedian has had with Georgia law officers, authorities said Friday. Williams — whose real name is Micah Sierra Williams — was booked into the Fulton County Jail on Thursday on a warrant charging him with second-degree criminal damage to property, jail records show.

A judge in Atlanta has ruled against Bobbi Kristina Brown’s partner, Nick Gordon, in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by her estate.