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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp received backlash on Thursday after signing an election reform bill that many have dubbed “Jim Crow 2.0.” The GOP-backed legislation is an overhaul of the state’s election laws, and includes a series of provisions that significantly limit voter access. Though the law will expand early voting for primary and general elections, it […]
A Georgia man was subjected to an enviable level of pettiness when he was given his long-awaited final payment of $915 from a former employee entirely in pennies, along with a note that simply read, “Fuck you,” HuffPost reports. Over 90,000 oil-soaked pennies were dumped in the driveway of Andreas Flaten earlier this month, four months after […]
A man who entered a grocery store in Atlanta with five guns and body armor was arrested on Wednesday. The man, who has since been identified by the Atlanta Police Department as 22-year-old Rico Marley, was confirmed to have been taken to the Fulton County Jail on Wednesday afternoon for processing. The body armor and […]
A Georgia official is facing mounting backlash over his alleged anti-Asian Facebook posts. Jay Baker of Georgia’s Cherokee County Sheriff’s office has been accused of promoting racist, xenophobic graphic tees that read: “COVID-19 imported virus from CHY-NA.” The posts featured several close-up images of the shirt designs as well as the print shop where they could be […]
Shootings at three different massage parlors in the Atlanta, Georgia area left eight people dead on Tuesday night, marking the sixth mass shooting in the U.S. this year. As of Wednesday morning, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had confirmed her office was in close contact with both the White House and the Atlanta Police Department, the […]
Gucci Mane’s artist Foogiano has been arrested in Memphis. According to inmate records, he’s been charged with being a fugitive from justice without a warrant, with his bail set at $25,000. No information has emerged as to why the Greensboro, Georgia native was in Memphis. As XXL points out, it might have been for the […]
Elizabeth Banks is headed back to the director’s chair. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress/filmmaker has signed to direct Cocaine Bear—a Universal Pictures thriller inspired by true events that occurred in the 1980s. The outlet reports the movie will be written by Jimmy Warden and will be produced under Lord Miller’s first-look deal with the studio. Specific […]
Georgia high school teacher Susan McCoy has received a lot of justified criticism after she suggested Breonna Taylor was responsible for her own death. The forensics teacher has gotten calls for her to be fired from her job at Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Georgia, the Courier Journal reports. “I’m sorry she was killed, but you know […]
A massive cheerleading competition is unfolding in Atlanta this weekend and people are fearful that it will become a super spreader event, CNN reports. 40,000 youth cheerleaders, coaches, and spectators from across the country are expected to attend the Cheersport National Cheerleading Championship on Saturday and Sunday at Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. Per GWCC manager of marketing and […]
A Georgia substitute teacher is looking at nearly 20 counts of child molestation after masturbating in a classroom full of children. The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office tells Atlanta’s local Fox affiliate that its investigators learned that Amelia Resller “engaged in indecent and immoral acts while in the presence of school-aged children.” “It appears she was masturbating while the […]
