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…
Nation Jan 13 Tornado death toll grows in Alabama and Georgia Rescuers raced Friday to find any survivors trapped in debris after tornadoes barreled across parts of the South in a system that killed at least nine people in Alabama and Georgia and inflicted heavy damage on Selma, a flashpoint of…
Nation Jan 12 Multiple people killed in Alabama as giant storm system slams through South A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South spurred a tornado on Thursday that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma, Alabama, a city etched in the history of the civil rights movement.
Politics Jan 17 WATCH: Family of Martin Luther King Jr. hold news briefing after march for voting rights The family of Martin Luther King Jr. led a "Peace March" Monday morning across Washington, D.C.'s new Frederick Douglass bridge, calling for the passage of voting rights reform legislation, now stalled in the United States Senate.
Politics May 14 WATCH: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds briefing Gas shortages have spread from the South, almost exhausting supplies in Washington, D.C. The runs on gasoline follow a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline.