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Another one bites the dust. Coming right on the heels of North Carolina’s bold stance for gender-exclusive bathrooms, Georgia governor Nathan Deal, facing immense pressure, made headlines last week when he caved and promised to veto what could have been ...

Farms and property owners in Georgia have won a big victory in the battle against eminent domain. The state’s Department of Transportation Commissioner rejected an application that would have given energy company Kinder Morgan the right to seize private property ...

Parents in one Georgia county can be arrested and tossed in jail for a month if their children miss too much school – even if the child is sick. Mother and substitute teacher Julie Giles was arrested because she did ...

Sherriff’s deputies who killed an innocent Georgia businessman and grandfather in his own home during a no-knock drug raid were apparently acting on a tip from a known methamphetamine addict. To make matters worse, the addict had reportedly stolen the ...

A state taskforce with a helicopter and drug-sniffing dogs raided a Georgia man’s house and garden – only to find okra. The Governor’s Taskforce for Drug Suppression mistook okra, a popular vegetable widely grown in the South, for marijuana.   ...

The family of the toddler severely burned by a SWAT team’s flash-bang grenade has had another trauma inflicted upon them by local authorities: Habersham County, Georgia, officials are refusing to pay the child’s medical bills. Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh had ...

Is taking a full set of fingerprints simply to garner a driver’s license legal? Government officials in Texas and a series of other states appear to think so. Since the 1960s Texas has required thumbprints for license renewals – index ...

A 19-month-old boy is in a medically induced coma after being badly injured when a flash-bang grenade tossed by a policeman landed in his playpen during an early morning SWAT team raid in Habersham County, Georgia. “Cops busted in the ...

While some states pass bills infringing on Second Amendment rights, Georgia is working to expand them. The bill that has passed the Georgia House and Senate would, according to the National Rifle Association, prohibit the state from “creating and maintaining ...

A movement for a constitutional convention or “Convention of States” is gaining ground and igniting controversy across the nation. The lower houses of Alaska and Arizona passed resolutions calling for such a convention on March 12, days after Georgia became ...