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District Attorney Fani Willis says charging decisions are "imminent." Here's what could be on the table for Trump — or his allies.

It was from a Georgia prosecutor who indicated she was likely to seek criminal charges soon in a two-year election subversion probe. “I expect to see indictments in Fulton County before I see any federal indictments,” said Clark Cunningham, a Georgia State University law professor. Among the witnesses who testified were former New York mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and such Georgia state officials as Raffensperger and Gov. The special grand jury was dissolved earlier this month after wrapping up its work and finalizing a report on its investigation. Special grand juries are relatively rare in Georgia, and the law doesn’t provide much guidance for prosecutors, he said.

Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been put on notice by a prosecutor, but the warning didn’t come from anyone at the Justice Department.

Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been put on notice by a prosecutor, but the warning didn’t come from anyone at the Justice Department. It was from a Georgia prosecutor who indicated she was likely to seek criminal charges soon in a two-year election subversion probe. In trying to block the release of a special grand jury’s report, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis argued in court last week that decisions in the case were “imminent” and that the report’s publication could jeopardize the rights of “future defendants.”

ATLANTA — A man allegedly playing with a gun accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend Saturday evening in Atlanta, Georgia. >> Read more trending newsAtlanta Police Department officers were called out to the Northside Plaza apartment complex near 400 Markham Street for a report of a person who was shot, according to WSB-TV. During the start of the investigation, officers got access to some Ring camera footage that allegedly showed the victim with her boyfriend in the “breezeway of the apartment complex,” when a gun went off. According to WSB-TV, the boyfriend was allegedly playing with the gun when it went off and hit the woman. According to WSB-TV, the boyfriend is in custody and charges are pending.

Highs through the day will be in the upper 60s to lower 70s.

Video showing five Memphis police officers beating Tyre Nichols has been made public.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp declared a national emergency on Thursday after anti-police protests damaged property and targeted police vehicles last weekend.

Brian Kemp signed an emergency order Thursday declaring a state of emergency and mobilizing National Guard troops in response to "Cop City" riots.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp issued a state of emergency in anticipation of more unrest following violent riots in Atlanta last weekend.

A convicted drug trafficker was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his involvement in an overdose and dismemberment case. The man traveled from Georgia to West Virginia to sell drugs.

A Georgia agency has approved rules for medical marijuana sales, expected to start in the coming months. Georgia's Medical Cannabis Commission voted unanimously to approve new rules.

The protests follow a shooting last week near a controversial future law enforcement training site in which a Georgia state trooper was wounded and a man was killed.

The State of Emergency will stay in effect until Feb. 9.

Georgia and New Hampshire will receive more time to make changes to be a part of the Democratic presidential primary next year. The DNC voted 25-0 to extend the deadline until June 3.

The engineer of a train in Maryland is now charged in the death of a teenage football star with ties to Central Florida.

New Hampshire state law mandates that it hold the nation's first primary — a rule Iowa was able to circumvent only because it held a caucus. In Georgia, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sets his state's primary date. Rules committee member Leah Daughtry said she was “similarly taken aback and quite frankly shocked” by New Hampshire's objections to the new calendar. The Democrats' 2024 primary calendar could be moot if Biden opts to run for reelection, as expected. The DNC rules committee also has already pledged to revisit the primary calendar after 2024.

A woman is accused of stealing approximately $80,000 in fraudulent transactions from her job at a Dollar General store, Perry police say.

Robert "Wes" Wheeler, 52, sat down with the Tribune to talk about his new job leading the Chicago FBI.

“The state understands the media’s inquiry and the world’s interest,” Willis told Fulton County judge Robert McBurney during a hearing on whether to release the report compiled by the special grand jury. Such special grand juries are relatively rare in Georgia and, while they have the power to subpoena witnesses and hear testimony, do not have the power to issue indictments. After receiving the report and its recommendations on whether criminal indictments should be pursued, Willis now has the momentous decision about whether to seek indictments from a regular grand jury. All told, McBurney revealed, 75 witnesses appeared before the special grand jury during his seven-month investigation, which began last May and lasted until the end of the year. But that was all McBurney revealed about the report, which was delivered to him, and to Willis’ office, several weeks ago.

ATLANTA — (AP) — A judge said Tuesday that a final report produced by a special grand jury that investigated possible illegal interference in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia by then-President Donald Trump and his allies will remain under wraps for now. If McBurney decides to disseminate the report, as the special grand jury urged, he must also determine whether any parts of it should be redacted. The special grand jury did not have the power to issue indictments, and it will ultimately be up to Willis to decide whether to seek indictments from a regular grand jury. Those included:— Phone calls by Trump and others to Georgia officials in the wake of the 2020 election. — False allegations of election fraud made during meetings of state legislators at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020.

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ATLANTA — (AP) — A Georgia prosecutor argued Tuesday in court that a judge should not immediately release a report by a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies broke the law by seeking to overturn his 2020 election loss. If McBurney decides to disseminate the report, as the special grand jury urged, he must also determine whether any parts of it should be redacted and whether the report should be made public now or later. The special grand jury did not have the power to issue indictments, and it will ultimately be up to Willis to decide whether to seek indictments from a regular grand jury. A grand jury handbook produced by the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia says courts have repeatedly held that a grand jury “cannot include, in a report or general presentment, comments that charge or accuse identifiable person(s) of misconduct.” That can only be done in a charging document, like an indictment, the handbook says. If the special grand jury did recommend that specific people be charged, Skandalakis said he believes that would have to be redacted before the report can be released.

Donald Trump is under investigation for possible crimes related to trying to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.

ATLANTA — (AP) — A Georgia prosecutor argued Tuesday in court that a judge should not publicly release a report by a special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies broke the law by seeking to overturn his 2020 election loss. The special grand jury did not have the power to issue indictments, and it will ultimately be up to Willis to decide whether to seek indictments from a regular grand jury. If the special grand jury did recommend that specific people be charged, Skandalakis said he believes that would have to be redacted before the report can be released. While the special grand jury’s work took place in secret, as required by law, related public court filings provided a glimpse of investigative threads that were being pursued. — False allegations of election fraud made during meetings of state legislators at the Georgia Capitol in December 2020.

The special grand jury presented a final report earlier this month after eight months of intense investigation. WSB-TV and a media coalition filed a brief on Monday urging McBurney to make the entire report available to the public. The special grand jury doesn’t have the power to indict, only to investigate. “On behalf of President Trump, we will not be present nor participating in Tuesday’s hearing regarding the possible release of the special purpose grand jury’s report. He was never subpoenaed nor asked to come in voluntarily by this grand jury or anyone in the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.

An Atlanta judge will hear arguments Tuesday on whether to release the final report of a special grand jury charged with investigating whether former president Donald Trump and his allies broke the law when they sought to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia.

ATLANTA — (AP) — A judge is set to hear arguments Tuesday on whether to release a report by a special grand jury tasked with investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies broke any laws as they sought to overturn his narrow 2020 election loss in Georgia. The special grand jury, whose work was overseen by McBurney, recommended that the report be made public. The special grand jury did not have the power to issue indictments, and it will ultimately be up to Willis to decide whether to seek indictments from a regular grand jury. If the special grand jury did recommend that specific people be charged, Skandalakis said he believes that would have to be redacted before the report can be released. While the special grand jury’s work took place in secret, as required by law, related public court filings provided a glimpse of investigative threads that were being pursued.

A report by a special grand jury in Georgia investigating possible interference in the 2020 election will remain secret for now while a judge considers its release.

The Fulton County district attorney could be the first in U.S. history to indict a former president.

A man and woman in Georgia have been arrested in connection with the shooting of a 3-year-old boy.

The hearing could result in the full release of the report, a partial disclosure or to withhold the document pending prosecution decision.

Rodarius "Rara" Thomas was arrested Monday on a felony charge of false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery-family violence.

Rara Thomas, a wide receiver who recently transferred to Georgia from Mississippi State, was arrested early Monday morning. According to Athens-Clarke County jail records, Thomas is facing a felony charge of false imprisonment and a misdemeanor charge of family violence. He was arrested by University of Georgia police and then booked into Athens-Clarke County jail at 4:04 a.m. Monday. Thomas recently arrived at Georgia after catching 62 passes for 878 yards and 12 touchdowns over the past two seasons at Mississippi State. Thomas, expected to be a key piece for the UGA offense next season, was one of two SEC transfers that Georgia added at receiver.

Two weeks after declaring the grand jury’s work complete, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney will determine whether to release the final report.

BURKE COUNTY, Ga. — A woman was arrested in Burke County, Georgia for allegedly drowning a 4-year-old during swim lessons. >> Read more trending newsThe Georgia Bureau of Investigations reportedly arrested Lexie C. Tenhuisen, 66, on Jan. 17 at 8:30 p.m., Burke County Sheriff’s Office said, according to WSB-TV. According to WSB-TV, the boy’s mother said that it was his second day of swimming lessons. According to WSB-TV, it is unclear what led up to Scott’s drowning. Tenhuisen has been arrested and booked on a recommended charge of involuntary manslaughter, according to WSB-TV.

The six suspects charged with domestic terrorism after a fiery anti-police riot that involved the burning of an Atlanta police SUV were smirking or stone-faced in their mugshots.

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It comes in the wake of a shooting earlier this week, near a controversial future law enforcement training site, in which a Georgia state trooper was wounded and a man was killed.

A couple in Georgia is accused of sexually abusing children that they adopted, with one of the men bragging that he was "f--king [his] son tonight."

The NFL says more than 50,000 tickets were sold in the first 24 hours for a potential AFC championship game in Atlanta.

A Braselton man was charged with DUI after his car collides with ambulance carrying UGA football player Warren McClendon who survived earlier wreck.

Kids crawled out windows into their parents’ arms and left through the rear emergency exit while the bus was stopped at a red light, video shows.

The next storm system is forecast to shift over the Plains, bringing heavy snow to some areas. Meanwhile, the South and Southeast are expected to see rain.

ATLANTA — Rapper Young Thug is accused of conducting a hand-to-hand drug deal during jury selection in a Georgia courtroom for the Grammy Award-winning artist’s gang conspiracy trial, prosecutors said. Defense attorney Keith Adams told us Young Thug has done nothing wrong, was passed something but didn’t know what it was, it was immediately turned over to deputy. The reality is Mr. Williams had nothing to do with what went on in the courtroom on yesterday,” Adams said. “On behalf of Mr. Adams, these allegations are simply that: mere statements made by the state in an effort to thwart the lengthiness of the jury selection process,” Calland wrote. Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 11 Photos: Young Thug through the years Here are some memorable photos of rapper Young Thug through the years.

Georgia authorities have identified the body found burning in the woods in December.

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division released a draft plan Thursday for how Twin Pines Minerals would operate its proposed mine and mitigate potential impacts to the swamp. Twin Pines has insisted it can mine without harming the swamp, and Georgia regulators echoed a key point of the company's assurances Thursday. The swamp’s wildlife, cypress forests and flooded prairies draw roughly 600,000 visitors each year, according to the U.S. Despite efforts by President Joe Biden to restore federal oversight, the Army Corps entered an agreement with Twin Pines last year to maintain its hands-off position. In releasing the draft plan Thursday, the state Environmental Protection Division noted that Twin Pines still faces an additional draft and comment period for a surface mining permit if its mining plan gets approved.

A company's plan to mine minerals just outside the famed Okefenokee Swamp and its federally protected wildlife refuge is a big step closer to being approved by regulators in Georgia.

Winter weather will bring heavy and blowing snow to the Midwest and Great Lakes, while California finally sees a break following weeks of record conditions.

Hundreds of people came out to First Baptist Church of Toccoa, wearing their red and black.

A Georgia teen charged in connection with the shooting death of a 19-year-old man at the Mall of America in Minnesota last month was arrested on Tuesday, authorities said. Marshals in Decatur, Georgia, WSB-TV reported. Longstreet and Taeshawn Adams-Wright, 18, who was arrested on Dec. 24, both face murder charges in Hudson’s death, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported. Lavon Longstreet was the sixth teenager arrested in the shooting that killed a 19-year-old. The group chased Hudson, and surveillance video allegedly shows Adams-Wright and Longstreet standing over him at different points, according to the television station.

A Georgia man is accused of beating a victim with a baseball bat last year, authorities said. >> Read more trending newsMatthew Kevin Cantrell, 29, of Temple, was arrested Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault, according to Haralson County Sheriff’s Office online booking records. Cantrell was booked into the Haralson County Jail, online records show. “We would like to thank (the) Paulding County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance today,” the Haralson County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post. “We are always glad to help our friends at the Haralson County Sheriff’s Office,” the Paulding County Sheriff’s office responded on Facebook.

The alleged shooter was shot and killed by police.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — (AP) — A suspect wanted in connection with a fatal shooting at the Mall of America in December was arrested in Georgia on Tuesday, police said. The suspect faces charges of second-degree murder and second-degree assault. Johntae Hudson, 19, was killed in a Dec. 23 shooting at the Mall of America, the nation’s largest shopping center located in Bloomington. The suspect arrested Tuesday in Decatur, an Atlanta suburb, was one of four suspects charged by Minnesota prosecutors in December. She was charged with aiding and abetting the suspect for allegedly driving him to Georgia following the shooting.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — (AP) — A suspect wanted in connection with a fatal shooting at the Mall of America in December was arrested in Georgia on Tuesday, police said. The suspect faces charges of second-degree murder and second-degree assault. Johntae Hudson, 19, was killed in a Dec. 23 shooting at the Mall of America, the nation’s largest shopping center located in Bloomington. The suspect arrested Tuesday in Decatur, an Atlanta suburb, was one of four suspects charged by Minnesota prosecutors in December. She was charged with aiding and abetting the suspect for allegedly driving him to Georgia following the shooting.

A suspect wanted in connection with a fatal shooting at the Mall of America in December was arrested in Georgia on Tuesday, police said. The suspect faces charges of second-degree murder and second-degree assault. Johntae Hudson, 19, was killed in a Dec. 23 shooting at the Mall of America, the nation’s largest shopping center located in Bloomington. The suspect arrested Tuesday in Decatur, an Atlanta suburb, was one of four suspects charged by Minnesota prosecutors in December. She was charged with aiding and abetting the suspect for allegedly driving him to Georgia following the shooting.

A suspect wanted in connection with a fatal shooting at the Mall of America in December was arrested in Georgia on Tuesday.

Cantrell was wanted on aggravated assault charges from a violent incident in Haralson County in April 2022.

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During the 2022 midterm campaign, President Joe Biden steered clear of Georgia as Sen. Raphael Warnock, like other battleground-state Democrats, sought to distance himself from the White House amid an inflationary economy and the president’s lagging approval ratings.

Stunned residents tried to salvage belongings as rescue crews pulled survivors from the aftermath of a deadly tornado-spawning storm system that killed at least nine people in Georgia and Alabama.

CNN is moving out of the CNN Center, its longtime downtown Atlanta home, by the end of this year.

A giant, swirling storm system billowing across the South has killed at least six people in central Alabama and one in Georgia and spawned a tornado that shredded the walls of homes, toppled roofs and uprooted trees in Selma.

Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium will be the neutral site if Buffalo and Kansas City meet in the AFC championship game.

U.S. authorities say they have charged more than 100 people with federal gun and drug crimes in separate blitzes in three states.

A South Korean solar panel maker says it will invest more than $2.5 billion in two Georgia factories.

Georgia is No. 1 in the final Associated Press college football poll, becoming the 12th back-to-back national champion in the history of the rankings after routing TCU.

Vickie Williams, 50, given no bond amount on 3 charges

A person of interest in the homicide investigation of a Mount Dora couple killed at a senior living complex was identified Wednesday evening, according to police.

A line of severe weather has prompted a Tornado Watch for Marion and Flagler counties.

Beach warning flags are used to let people know when it’s not safe to get in the water, but this county is looking to change the way it warns swimmers.

Marion County deputies are still searching for two preteen girls who became missing endangered back in November after running away from home, according to the sheriff's office.

The NCAA Division I transformation committee has released its final report.

A special grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election in Georgia appears to be wrapping up its work, but many questions remain.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has banned the use of several Chinese-owned apps including TikTok and WeChat on state government devices and wireless networks.

A conservation group is suing in federal court over a U.S. agency's timeline for dredging a Georgia shipping channel, saying dredging in the summertime would threaten rare sea turtles.

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Nevada’s most populous county and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger have received subpoenas related to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of former President Donald Trump.

Georgia’s 2022 election season ended dramatically this past week.

Fresh off Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock’s runoff victory, Georgia Democrats are embracing -- and Republicans are reluctantly accepting -- the state’s transition from GOP stronghold to premier battleground as the political calendar turns to the 2024 presidential cycle.

Raphael Warnock’s victory in swing-state Georgia gives Senate Democrats a 51-49 majority.

A Georgia farmer says his sheepdog is recovering at home two days after killing a pack of coyotes that attacked his flock of sheep.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a runoff election in Georgia.

Georgia's U.S. Senate race between Republican Herschel Walker and Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock highlights how sports and college loyalties explain a political battleground.

Two college students have won $100,000 in tuition after a confusing finish in the SEC championship game’s halftime competition.

Here are some examples of strange ways elections were decided.

Nonprofit organizations in Georgia are digging deep to ramp up their operations again after Election Day to inform voters about the closely watched runoff race for one of the state's Senate seats.

A stolen semitruck headed to Daytona Beach did not make it past Flagler County.

President Joe Biden made phone calls with fellow Democrats Friday for Sen. Raphael Warnock’s runoff election, delivering hot coffee to volunteers, too, and thanking them for their work.

Barack Obama is urging Georgia Democrats to keep pushing voting turnout for Sen. Raphael Warnock.

State-level law enforcement units created after the 2020 presidential election to investigate voter fraud are looking into scattered complaints more than two weeks after the midterms but have provided no indication of systemic problems.

Former President Barack Obama will campaign again for Sen. Raphael Warnock as the Georgia Democrat tries to withstand a strong challenge from Republican Herschel Walker.

A Georgia appeals court ruling means that counties can offer early voting this coming Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.

Southern California moved into the top five of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time in five years.

Georgia, Ohio State, Michigan and TCU held on to the top four spots in the College Football Playoff rankings.

A Senate investigation has found that U.S. immigration authorities didn’t do enough to adequately vet or monitor a gynecologist in rural Georgia who performed unnecessary medical procedures on detained migrant women without their consent.

A Florida judge has ruled that former national security adviser Michael Flynn must testify before a special grand jury in Atlanta that’s looking into whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in Georgia.

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s campaign and Democratic groups are suing the state of Georgia to overturn guidance by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that counties can’t offer Saturday voting ahead of next month’s Senate runoff election.

UCF and FSU both jumped five spots in this week’s poll with the Knights moving from No. 22 to No. 17 after their win over a ranked Tulane team and the Seminole moving from No. 25 to No. 20 after their win over Syracuse.

Heading into this year’s midterms, voting rights groups were concerned that restrictions in Republican-leaning states triggered by false claims surrounding the 2020 election might jeopardize access to the ballot box for many voters.