Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The Georgia Department of Public Health apologized Monday for its most recent coronavirus data gaffe, explaining a “processing error” over the weekend had incorrectly shown a downward trend in the number of daily new infections. In a tweet Monday from…
Protestors in Georgia are calling for the removal of the district attorneys who they claim mishandled the case of the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a young black man who was killed while jogging near Brunswick, Ga., in February. Hundreds of protesters gathered at Glynn County Police Department building in Brunswick wearing face masks and demanding…
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Protesters on Saturday demanded the removal of two district attorneys accused of dragging their feet in arresting two white men suspected in the shooting death of a young black jogger in the Brunswick, Georgia area. FILE PHOTO: Supporters of the Georgia NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) wearing protective…
The Georgia police department at the center of the Ahmaud Arbery murder investigation has been marred by scandals and claims of corruption for years, including allegations that detectives tampered with evidence, lied to prosecutors and retaliated against whistleblowers.In fact, the charges against the Glynn County Police Department are so severe that the Georgia General Assembly…
There have been further calls for the Georgia prosecutors who first handled the case of Ahmaud Arbery to be removed from office, as a criminal investigation into their actions is launched.Georgia's Attorney General Chris Carr has requested that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) investigate how Glynn County District Attorney Jackie Johnson and Waycross District…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…