By Russ Bynum, The Associated Press U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock urged the U.S. Treasury secretary Friday to use “maximum flexibility” in implementing a revised tax credit for Americans buying electric vehicles, a perk that Hyundai stands to lose as the automaker invests billions of dollars to open its first American EV plant in the Democratic […]
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Lawyer: Arbery shooter fears he’ll be killed in state prison
By Russ Bynum, The Associated Press The White man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery after chasing the running Black man in a Georgia neighborhood says he fears he will be killed by fellow inmates if he’s sent to a state prison to serve a life sentence for murder. Travis McMichael, 36, faces sentencing Aug. 7 […]
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All 3 men charged in Arbery’s death convicted of murder
By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — All three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice. The convictions for Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan came after […]
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Ex-prosecutor indicted for misconduct in Ahmaud Arbery death
25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. (Courtesy Photo) By Russ Bynum The Associated Press A former Georgia prosecutor was indicted Sept. 2 on misconduct charges alleging she used her position to shield the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery from being charged with crimes immediately after the shootings. A grand jury in coastal Glynn County indicted former […]
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Spared from Demolition, Historic 1920s Black Schoolhouse Being Saved
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — As a girl in the mid-1950s, Amy Roberts would catch a ride each morning with her neighbors the Johnsons, the couple that ran the one-room schoolhouse where Black children were taught on St. Simons Island. “Mrs. Johnson played the piano and she had the younger children,” Roberts said, recalling her years […]
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Suspect in Georgia Police Shootings Dead, Likely by Own Hand
A man wanted for killing a Georgia police officer and wounding another was found dead Thursday, apparently fatally shooting himself before a SWAT team stormed a home where the suspect was hiding, authorities said Thursday. This undated photo released by the Americus Police Department shows Minquell Kennedy Lembrick, suspect in connection with the fatal shooting […]
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Teen Convicted of Killing Stroller Baby Gets Life in Prison
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP-Updated 9/12/2013) — A Georgia teen convicted of fatally shooting a baby in a stroller was sentenced Thursday to spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole after the grieving mother asked a judge to punish the gunman for taking “the love of my life.” De’Marquise Elkins, 18, […]
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Ga. Trial of Alleged Stroller Baby Killer Starts Next Week
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — It was a tiny bullet that took the short life of Antonio Santiago. He had learned to walk, but not yet talk, when he was killed March 21, six weeks after his first birthday. He was strapped in his stroller, out for a walk with his mother a few blocks from […]
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Deen Says She Used Slur But Doesn’t Tolerate Hate
(June 19, 2013) SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP–Updated 6/21/2013) — Celebrity cook Paula Deen says she has used racial slurs in the past but insists she and her brother, who are accused of racial and sexual discrimination in a lawsuit by a former manager of their restaurant, don’t tolerate hateful behavior. In a court deposition filed Monday […]
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Ga. Woman Says She’s Certain Suspect Shot Her Baby
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The mother of a baby gunned down in his stroller says she has no doubt a teenage suspect is the man who killed her 13-month-old son, but the suspect’s family members say he wasn’t anywhere near the scene. “That’s definitely him,” Sherry West said Saturday when she saw the jail mugshot […]
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Police Arrest 2 Teens in Georgia Baby’s Killing
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A pair of teenagers was arrested Friday and accused of fatally shooting a 13-month-old baby in the face and wounding his mother during their morning stroll through a leafy, historic neighborhood in southeast Georgia. Sherry West had just been to the post office a few blocks from her apartment Thursday morning […]
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Prosecutor: Ga. Murder Case Uncovers Terror Plot to Over Throw Government & Assassinate President
Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks, prosecutors told a judge Monday. Prosecutors in rural Long County, near the sprawling Army post Fort Stewart, said the militia group of […]