Georgia

A split Eleventh Circuit panel refused to unwind $20 million in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages against Officer Jon Grubbs after he fired a Taser into Jerry…

A Decatur County grand jury indicted former Climax Mayor Joseph Melvin Kelly on five child molestation counts, enticing a child, and violation of oath. He resigned June 2, 2025. No…

St. Petersburg physician Stephen Andrew Leedy is charged with producing child sexual abuse material and enticing minors. He is presumed innocent. The Florida medical board already suspended his license.

Investigators in Tift County are being asked to treat boiling water on a sleeping child as a child-injury case, not a joke that got out of hand.

A deputy found Judge Stephen Yekel, 74, in the Springfield courthouse on December 31, 2024. The sheriff opened a death investigation. His family asked for room.

An 11-year-old admitted pushing Noah Bush into a Jesup borrow pit and holding him under in May 2024. Georgia's juvenile cap produced a two-year term. He was released after 186…

Katie, who lives on Georgia's Satilla River, kayaks through floodwater in gator waders every week to reach the dumpster. Her TikTok made the chore a spectacle.

Tybee Island's unpermitted Orange Crush weekend produced 54 arrests and more than 100 citations. The gathering later became a permitted one-day festival.

Former Boulder Swimming coach Jon Beber was convicted of sexually abusing three teenage athletes. A judge sentenced him to 42 years to life in July 2024. He is not eligible…

Fourteen men, including Valdosta State University dean Keith Walters, were arrested in Georgia's Operation Broken Arrow after traveling to meet children for sex.