Nation Oct 07 Emergency officials have this advice for Floridians preparing for Hurricane Milton Having a plan and an emergency kit before Hurricane Milton strikes is paramount and, for many Floridians, heeding warnings to evacuate could be a life-saving decision.
Nation Sep 06 Teen and father charged in Georgia school shooting will stay in custody The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting at a Georgia high school that killed four people and his father will both stay in custody following back-to-back court hearings Friday morning where their lawyers declined to seek bail.
Nation Sep 05 Father of 14-year-old Georgia school shooting suspect arrested on multiple charges The father of the teenager charged in the killing four people at a Georgia high school has been charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder and eight counts of cruelty to children, the Georgia Bureau…
Nation Aug 23 Prosecutor says ex-sheriff’s deputy charged with manslaughter in shooting of Black airman at his home Former Okaloosa County deputy Eddie Duran was charged in connection with the May 3 shooting death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson.
Nation Aug 01 Teen brother of airman killed in his home by Florida deputy shot to death near Atlanta The killing of Senior Airman Roger Fortson made global headlines in May. Now, the family is grieving the killing of his 16-year-old brother, Andre Fortson.
Nation May 17 Hundreds pack funeral for Roger Fortson, the Black airman killed in his home by a Florida deputy Hundreds joined Roger Fortson's family, friends and others at a suburban Atlanta megachurch on Friday to pay their final respects to the Black senior airman, who was shot and killed in his Florida home earlier this month by a sheriff's…
Politics Jan 15 WATCH: Harris speaks at Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in South Carolina Speaking at the MLK Day at the Dome rally at the South Carolina Statehouse, Vice President Kamala Harris said young people two or three generations removed from King have seen their freedoms shrink.
Nation Sep 01 Hurricane Idalia stopped intensifying and turned from Tallahassee hours before landfall A last-minute turn spared the state’s capital city of Tallahassee from far more serious devastation.
Nation Mar 06 35 detained after violence at protest at site of new Atlanta police training center The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports protesters dressed in all black threw large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails and fireworks at police officers at the construction site.
Nation Feb 19 Fond remembrances pour in after Jimmy Carter enters hospice care Dozens of well-wishers made the pilgrimage Sunday to The Carter Center in Atlanta, as prayers and memories of former President Jimmy Carter's legacy were offered up at his small Baptist church in Plains, Georgia, a day after he entered hospice…