Kate Brumback

A judge considering whether to grant a new trial to the Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley heard testimony Friday from a DNA expert retained by his attorneys to analyze evidence in his murder case.

An elected leader in Georgia's Fulton County, which drew national attention after the 2020 election when President Donald Trump claimed without proof that voter fraud there cost him victory in Georgia, announced that she is running to be the state's top election official.

A judge on Wednesday dismissed the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others after the prosecutor who took over the case said he would not pursue the charges, ending the last effort to punish the president in the courts for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

The head of a nonpartisan agency tasked with finding a prosecutor to take over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others is asking for more time after a judge set a two-week deadline for that appointment to be made.

After previous attempts to bring Fani Willis before a special state Senate committee formed to investigate her failed, the committee chairman said Friday that he expects the Fulton County district attorney to appear for questioning next month.

Georgia’s highest court has declined to consider Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ appeal of her removal from the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others.

A judge has ordered a mental evaluation of the Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.

Georgia's highest court heard arguments Wednesday on whether a lower court judge ruled correctly when he blocked seven rules passed by the State Election Board just before last year's general election and declared that the board didn't have the authority to pass them.

A judge has ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to pay more than $54,000 in attorneys' fees and to turn over documents after finding that her office violated Georgia's Open Records Act.

A judge on Friday declined a Georgia state senator's request for an arrest warrant against a state House staffer following a confrontation between the two earlier this year.