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Associated Press

January 30, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Georgia's Fulton County Is Hacked, but Prosecutor's Office Says Trump Election Case Is Unaffected

Fulton County was experiencing a "widespread system outage" from a "cybersecurity incident," said county commission Chair Robb Pitts said Monday in a video posted on social media. Notably, he said, the outage is affecting the county's phone, court and tax systems.

By The Associated Press

2 minute read

January 30, 2024 | Daily Business Review

Florida State Takes Aim at Former ACC Commissioner John Swofford in Amended Lawsuit Against League

The ACC says the Seminoles broke promises when they legally challenged an agreement that binds the school to the league for the next dozen years.

By Mark Long | Associated Press

3 minute read

January 30, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Murdaugh Is Denied New Double-Murder Trial After SC Judge Hears Jury-Tampering Allegations

The judge said she couldn't overturn the verdict based "on the strength of some fleeting and foolish comments by a publicity-seeking clerk of court."

By Jeffrey Collins | The Associated Press

5 minute read

January 29, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Georgia House Votes to Revive Prosecutor Oversight Panel as Democrats Warn of Targeting Willis

"The question we should all ask is who will police this commission," said one Atlanta Democrat. "Who will they be accountable to? Certainly not the voters, because they are not elected. This should terrify all of us."

By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press

4 minute read

January 26, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Death Penalty by Nitrogen Gas Takes 22 Minutes

The execution came after a last-minute legal battle in which the condemned man'is attorneys contended the state was making him the test subject for an experimental execution method that could violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Federal courts rejected Smith's bid to block it, with the latest ruling coming Thursday night from the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press

7 minute read

January 26, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Senate Passes a Panel With Subpoena Power to Investigate Fulton DA Fani Willis

The committee can't directly sanction Willis, and Democrats denounced it as a partisan attempt to try to play to former President Donald Trump and his supporters.

By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press

4 minute read

January 25, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Trump Accuses Fulton DA of Inappropriately Injecting Race Into Georgia Election Case

Defense attorneys Steve Sadow and Jennifer Little filed a motion Thursday joining an earlier effort by co-defendant Michael Roman to have Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, special prosecutor Nathan Wade and their offices thrown off the case.

By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press

4 minute read

January 25, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Lawmakers Pass Bill to Define Antisemitism Despite Opponents' Free Speech Concerns

Sponsors say adopting the definition put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance would help prosecutors and other officials identify hate crimes and illegal discrimination targeting Jewish people. Gov. Brian Kemp has said he will sign the legislation.

By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press

8 minute read

January 25, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Eleventh Circuit Sets March Court Date to Hear Ahmaud Arbery's Killers' Appeals of Their Hate Crime Convictions

Arbery, 25, was chased by pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a subdivision outside the port city of Brunswick on Feb. 23, 2020. His killing sparked a national outcry when cellphone video Bryan recorded of the shooting leaked online more than two months later.

By Russ Bynum | The Associated Press

3 minute read

January 24, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Georgia Secretary of State Says It's Unconstitutional for Board to Oversee Him, but Lawmakers Differ

Charlene McGowan, Raffensperger's general counsel. "Giving a board of unelected bureaucrats unchecked power over the state's executive branch is a dangerous policy proposal."

By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press

5 minute read