McConnell rebukes RNC for saying Jan. 6 attack was ‘legitimate political discourse’
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday the Republican National Committee erred in censuring two House GOP lawmakers for joining...
A suicide epidemic is killing Georgia’s first responders; help from lawmakers is slow in...
Former Habersham County Emergency Services Director Chad Black can think of four public safety officers in the past several months who died by suicide...
Kemp loses funding court fight to Perdue; Vernon Jones quits governor’s race
(GA Recorder) — A federal judge handed former Sen. David Perdue a win Monday in a courtroom battle over fundraising in his Republican primary campaign...
Vernon Jones quits Georgia governor bid to run for Congress
One of the Republican primary challengers to incumbent Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp dropped out of the race Monday, saying he will support Donald Trump-backed...
Senate backs longer Medicaid benefits for post-partum women
The state Senate unanimously approved a bill Monday extending Medicaid coverage from six months to a year for low-income post-partum women.
The legislation aims to...
Kemp and Perdue both say their free speech is at risk in suit over...
(GA Recorder) — Lawyers for Gov. Brian Kemp and former Sen. David Perdue continued their arguments last week over the governor’s access to an...
Jury selection to start this week in federal hate crimes trial of Arbery killers
BRUNSWICK (GA Recorder) — The federal hate crimes trial is scheduled to begin Monday for the three white men accused of harboring racial animus,...
Top Republican state lawmakers line up behind hot-button culture war clashes
ATLANTA (GA Recorder) — The powerful Republican Georgia Senate Majority Caucus legislative priorities for 2022 include dismantling license requirements to own firearms and banning...
Travis and Greg McMichael withdraw guilty pleas in hate crimes case, head to trial...
Travis McMichael, the white man who shot and killed Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery two years ago outside Brunswick, withdrew on Friday from his guilty...
Greg McMichael set to stand trial again in Arbery’s killing
One of the men convicted of murder in the chase and fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery says he plans to stand trial for a...
Biden says answer to gun violence ‘is not to defund the police’
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland traveled Thursday to New York City, where the lives of two police...
Free at-home COVID tests to be handed out to Medicare beneficiaries this spring
WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — Starting this spring, Medicare beneficiaries will be able to get up to eight over-the-counter COVID-19 tests per month at no...