Several staff members who serve under Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis reportedly have come forward in an ongoing Georgia Senate panel investigation into alleged financial misconduct by Atlanta’s top prosecutor amid an ongoing romance scandal. The state Special Committee on Investigations — comprised of six Republicans and three Democrats — is looking into whether...
The legal team for the family of a man shot to death by a Cobb County police officer during a traffic stop in 2021 is going after the county’s district attorney for failing to prosecute the cop behind the shooting. Attorneys for Devontae Brown’s family issued a statement accusing Cobb County District Attorney Flynn D....
After the University of Pennsylvania announced the reburial of the 19 Black people whose bones were used for racist scientific research, the community criticized officials at the Philadelphia school for their lack of involvement in the decision. Spearheaded by physician Samuel George Morton in the 1830s, The Associated Press reported that the remains linked his study to...
The manner of death of a Georgia couple’s baby boy, who was decapitated during delivery at a hospital last July, has been ruled a homicide, according to the Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office. The death of Treveon Isaiah Taylor Jr., who died at Southern Regional Medical Center in Clayton County, Georgia, on July 10, 2023,...
A special education teacher in Oklahoma sued the state Department of Education and the superintendent of public schools after she and multiple other educators were ordered to pay back tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses that the state claims were sent out by mistake. The plaintiff, Kay Bojorquez, an employee with Epic Charter Schools, was...