College Park leaders approve $100K severance for fired city manager
Weeks after College Park City Manager Lindell Miller was fired in a surprise vote during a city council meeting, city leaders are giving her a $100,000 severance package.
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Weeks after College Park City Manager Lindell Miller was fired in a surprise vote during a city council meeting, city leaders are giving her a $100,000 severance package.
Georgia Representatives Nikema Williams and Hank Johnson are among a group of more than 30 Democratic lawmakers urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep its long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.
Georgia's Ethics Commission says Lt. Gov. Burt Jones can loan $10 million loan to his campaign committee.
Voters across Fulton County returned to the polls Tuesday to choose new mayors, city council members and school board leaders. Here are the certified results.
The legal fight over SB 202 has been ongoing since the law was passed in 2021.
Voters in several cities across north and south Fulton County are heading back to the polls Tuesday for runoff elections to decide new mayors and city council members.
Georgia's special prosecutor has dropped the election interference case against Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, ending the state's sweeping racketeering prosecution tied to the 2020 election.
A day after U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned Washington by announcing she will resign from Congress in January, voters in her district are already looking ahead — and asking what comes next.
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has announced she will resign from Congress on January 5, 2026.
Republican Rep. Buddy Carter wants the Department of Homeland Security to boost federal law enforcement in Atlanta. Still, immigrant advocates and Democrats say the move could spark fear and harm communities.
A new political ad in Georgia's U.S. Senate race is raising concerns about the use of artificial intelligence in elections after Rep. Mike Collins' campaign released a deepfake video showing Sen. Jon Ossoff mocking farmers and defending a government shutdown.
Rep. Buddy Carter is urging DHS to increase ICE presence in Atlanta amid immigration concerns.
In a sudden vote on Monday night, the College Park City Council voted to remove the city manager from her position.
Voters in Georgia State Senate District 35 — spanning parts of Fulton, Douglas, and Cobb counties — voted in a special election. Democrats Jaha Howard and Roger Bruce are headed to a runoff next month.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's received a pipe bomb threat, and fake pizza deliveries were sent to her home as she claims Trump's "vicious attacks" have made things more dangerous for her family.
A new prosecutor now holds the sprawling Georgia election interference case, and some legal experts say his next moves could reshape the charges still facing Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants.
President Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene have fallen out in a public feud.
Some of the more than 300 South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid at Hyundai's sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia have returned to their U.S. jobs two months later.
The Georgia Ethics Commission is still investigating whether a voter advocacy group founded by Stacey Abrams illegally coordinated with her 2018 gubernatorial campaign.
As the Trump administration pardons several defendants associated with the 2020 Georgia election interference case, the deadline to find a new lead prosecutor fast approaches.
While eight Democratic senators chose to break the shutdown stalemate, Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock remained "no" votes.
At a candidate forum hosted by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's podcast team Wednesday night, six of seven declared candidates for Georgia's top office gathered for a conversation about next year's race.
As the government shutdown drags past 30 days, longtime budget advisor G. William Hoagland says this one feels different — not just in duration, but in how it reveals a deeper breakdown in communication, trust, and the very structure of American governance.
Mayor Andre Dickens has announced a new emergency effort Thursday to help Atlanta residents who may soon face food insecurity if federal food benefits are disrupted.
There may be no rank-and-file Democratic senator with more at stake from the federal government shutdown than Georgia's Jon Ossoff.
Advocates for the unhoused are working to ensure they aren't pushed off the streets or out of town as the FIFA Men's World Cup comes to Atlanta.
Mayor Andre Dickens is asking city leaders to extend six Atlanta districts that allow future growth in property tax revenue to be reinvested into neighborhoods, arguing more work remains in historically underserved communities.
Environmental group Flint Riverkeeper says a Memorial Day weekend jet fuel spill from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the latest in a series of fuel releases affecting waterways downstream of the airport.
A procedural vote failed in the Senate early Friday, and a provision of the spy powers law is set to expire June 12.
Spelman College has selected a nationally recognized artificial intelligence pioneer, entrepreneur and former NASA engineer to become its next president.