Associated Press

August 04, 2023 | Daily Report Online

District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis tossed the charges Wednesday because ratepayers of the utility that lost billions of dollars on the project were improperly allowed on the grand jury that indicted Westinghouse Electric Co. executive Jeffrey Benjamin.

By Jeffrey Collins | The Associated Press

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August 04, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The lawyers involved said the settlements are for "undisclosed amounts." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Thursday that Fulton County commissioners on Wednesday voted to approve a $4 million settlement but said detailed terms of the settlement were not immediately disclosed.

By The Associated Press

2 minute read

August 02, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The attack on Georgia's Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission, filed Wednesday in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta, comes after Republicans pushed through a law creating the panel earlier this year.

By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press

5 minute read

August 01, 2023 | Daily Report Online

In a decision handed down Monday by the Chancery Court for the State of Tennessee's Twentieth Judicial District, the judges criticized Nashville city leaders for "inexplicably" waiting weeks before they asked the court to block the law from taking effect.

By Kimberlee Kruesi | The Associated Press

2 minute read

August 01, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Records show that Trump took in over $53 million since the start of 2023, a period in which his two criminal indictments in Florida and New York were turned into a rallying cry that made his fundraising soar. Yet the Republican presidential front-runner burned through at least $42.8 million this year, much of it used to cover costs related to the mounting legal peril faced by Trump, his aides and other allies.

By Brian Slodysko and Jill Colvin | The Associated Press

6 minute read

July 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

In his nine-page ruling, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney said Trump lacked the legal grounds to bring the challenge before any indictment has been filed in the case. Any harm alleged by Trump and by Cathy Latham, a Republican fake elector from Georgia who had joined his motion, is "either insufficient or else speculative and unrealized," he wrote.

By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press

5 minute read

July 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis began investigating more than two years ago, shortly after a recording was released of a January 2021 phone call Trump made to Georgia's secretary of state.

By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press

7 minute read

July 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

An investigation revealed that a clerk for the Southern chain did not stop Paul Murdaugh from using his older brother's ID to buy beer on the same February 2019 night that authorities said the 19-year-old steered a boat into a bridge in Beaufort County, South Carolina.

By The Associated Press

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July 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Unionized dockworkers have the right to staff every job at a new container terminal in South Carolina under a federal court decision — but there…

By The Associated Press

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July 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Jurors on Wednesday convicted Candra Clark, 41, of Ridgeland, of sending two threats-filled emails to U.S. Magistrate Judge Roy Percy, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported. She faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

By The Associated Press

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