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Georgia mom shot in leg and baby killed in stroller by kids with gun
Update (below): Two teens arrested in child’s shooting death A woman in coastal Brunswick, Georgia was shot in the leg and her 13-month-old son murdered in his stroller, allegedly by a pair of boys with a handgun. According to CNN, Sherry West was out walking her son Thursday morning when…
GA state senator runs and hides from questions regarding ‘mind-control’ broadcasting exec
A Georgia state senator ran and hid from a reporter when asked about a series of email responses dismissing thousands of voters’ concerns regarding a former colleague’s controversial hiring at the state public broadcasting company. WSB-TV released footage on Monday of state Sen. Bill Heath (R) ducking down a hallway…
Georgia community locks gates due to fear of election unrest
In a town outside Atlanta, the president of a homeowners association sent an email to residents alerting them that the gates would be closed on Tuesday “to enhance controlled access to the community until we see what (if any) negative repercussions may occur because of the results of the election,”…
Craigslist mob steals nearly everything from foreclosed family’s home
A mob of people showed up at a home in Woodstock, Georgia on Wednesday, responding to a Craigslist ad that promised free items. But when the man who posted the ad arrived at the sale, he discovered that the mob had barged inside the home and was taking everything the…
Georgia minister quits over jail rape scandal
Georgia’s prisons minister resigned Wednesday over videos showing the alleged beating and rape of convicts that caused outrage ahead of bitterly-contested elections in the ex-Soviet state. Some of the graphic video footage, aired late Tuesday by opposition television station TV9, showed a weeping half-naked male prisoner at a jail in…
Georgia ignores federal order, withholds unemployment benefits from public employees
Georgia flouts federal order, withholds lunch ladies' unemployment benefits Georgia has set up a showdown with the Obama administration over how deeply states can cut jobless benefits by refusing to give school bus drivers and lunch ladies unemployment benefits during their summer breaks. The issue echoes beyond Georgia because other states…
Georgia woman killed by dogs she was rescuing
Twenty-three-year-old Rebecca Carey of Decatur, Georgia, a young woman who reportedly devoted countless hours to rescuing and finding homes for abandoned and abused dogs, was found dead in her home on Friday, a victim of an attack by dogs she was currently fostering. According to Huffington Post, relatives went to…
Georgia man pistol whips woman and forces 7-year-old to smoke pot
Twenty-six-year old Justin Blake Mitchell of McDonough, Georgia has been arrested and charged with hitting a woman with a gun and forcing a 7-year-old boy to smoke marijuana at gunpoint, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News. The incident took place on July 12, but further investigation has resulted in…
Mentally disabled man’s execution stayed at 11th hour by Georgia Supreme Court
Warren Hill, a death row prisoner in Georgia who has been diagnosed intellectually disabled, has been granted a stay of execution 90 minutes before he was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection. The Georgia supreme court unanimously decided to postpone the death sentence in a case that…
Afghan refugee sues Georgia Republican officials for ‘terrorist’ slander
Sehar Hekmati (pictured, center), a Republican activist from Georgia who came to the United States from Afghanistan as a child, filed a lawsuit last week (PDF) against several county level Republican officials, accusing them of slandering her as a “terrorist” and a “felon” in a recorded conversation, emails circulated to other…
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