Georgia’s Zoo Atlanta is celebrating the birth of a Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth earlier this month. The sloth infant, which has not yet been publicly named, was born Aug. 9 to its mother, Nutella, 7, and father Cocoa, 31, Zoo Atlanta said in an Aug. 14 press release. It is Nutella’s second child. Her first, a...
A large bronze statue of the late civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Lewis was installed Friday, at the very spot where a contentious monument to the Confederacy stood for more than 110 years in the town square before it was dismantled in 2020. Work crews gently rested the 12-foot-tall statue into place as...
Georgia is one state that has seen an uptick in squatter cases being taken to court in recent years, according to a report. A report by the Pacific Legal Foundation found an upward trend in squatter cases being brought to court beginning in 2019. The number of these cases in Georgia rose from three in...
The federal government is processing U.S. citizenship applications at its fastest pace in decades, with thousands of immigrants becoming newly minted citizens every week, possibly helping sway the result of November’s election. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USIS) is taking an average of 4.9 months to process naturalization applications in the first nine months...
Four men were arrested in Cartersville, Georgia, for the theft of cooking oil in bulk from several businesses, according to police. Carlos Laguna, 41, of Buford;Freddy Valencia Aguirre, 36, of Tucker;Luis Gaitan-Obando, 41, of DeKalb County, and Yunier Eliuth Aguirre-Polanco, 24, of Atlanta, are all suspected of bulk theft of cooking oil from various restaurants...
A city in Georgia will change its free speech policies and pay $55,000 to settle a lawsuit, more than two years after police arrested a veteran for allegedly panhandling. Jeff Gray, an Army veteran and self-described First Amendment auditor, frequently travels around the southeast, stands on public property, and holds a sign saying “God bless...
A Georgia man was shot and killed by police on Sunday after he was observed waving around a firearm near a gas station in Athens, according to officials. Athens-Clarke County Police responded at about 1:20 a.m. on Sunday near the intersection of Lexington Road and Gaines School Road to a report of a man waving...
A Georgia fisherman is facing consequences for harboring an illegal number of freshwater fish. Officials with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Law Enforcement Division shared news about the retrieval on the agency’s Facebook page. The post said that Game Warden Will Gilstrap was patrolling for fish activity along the Chattachoochee River when he...
As the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua continues to expand its footprint in the United States, authorities say yet another member of the criminal enterprise is connected to the illegal immigrant accused in the brutal murder of a Georgia college student earlier this year. Jose Ibarra, 26, is being held without bail for allegedly...
Former President Trump’s tight race with VP Harris is bringing Georgia – a historically red state-turned-blue – back to the forefront this election cycle as the two candidates are “neck and neck” in the Peach State’s polls. And Trump’s rhetoric could swing the state one way or another, according to experts. In the 2020 presidential...
