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Jan 16, 2025 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Madeline Thigpen |Alyssa Johnson |Chauncey Alcorn |Dante Miller
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis issued a seven-page letter to the Fulton County Board of Commissioners last month threatening to sue if her office is not sufficiently funded in 2025. Through an open records request, Capital B Atlanta obtained documents Willis’ office sent to the Board of Commissioners on Dec.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Chauncey Alcorn |Madeline Thigpen |Dante Miller |Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Georgia Democrats were caught off guard Monday during the first day of legislative session when state Senate Republicans voted to reopen their investigation into alleged misdeeds committed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis during her 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump. Sen. Harold Jones, D-Augusta, said day one of the General Assembly’s annual 40-day lawmaking blitz is typically more procedural, but Monday’s start under the Gold Dome was anything but.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Madeline Thigpen |Chauncey Alcorn |Dante Miller |Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Young Thug accepted a plea deal last month in what has become the longest criminal trial in Georgia history — but the YSL case is not yet done.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Chauncey Alcorn |Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg |Dante Miller
Addressing Black voters’ economic concerns, including the higher cost of housing and child care, is among the top priorities for state Democratic lawmakers ahead of the Georgia General Assembly’s upcoming legislative session, which begins Monday. Democratic Party leaders in the state legislature, including state Rep.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Dante Miller |Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg |Chauncey Alcorn |Sydney Sims
As winter brings below-freezing temperatures to Atlanta, housing-insecure residents are at risk of being negatively affected by the extreme chill. But warming centers around the city won’t leave them out in the cold. The National Weather Service has declared a Winter Storm Watch in northern Georgia from Friday morning to Saturday morning, warning that snow, sleet, and freezing rain could pour down on Atlanta, leaving icy streets and 1 to 3 inches of snow on the ground.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Madeline Thigpen |Chauncey Alcorn |John Kennedy |Dante Miller
A Fulton County judge is deciding whether District Attorney Fani Willis has to comply with a subpoena issued by a Georgia Senate subcommittee investigating her alleged misconduct during her prosecution of former President Donald Trump. The subpoena, issued in August, called on Willis to turn over dozens of documents related to the prosecution and to testify in front of the Senate committee, potentially impacting the election interference case that Trump is seeking to have dismissed.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Chauncey Alcorn |John Kennedy |Dante Miller |Rebecca Grapevine
Atlanta voters decide today which City Council post-3 at-large runoff race candidate they want to represent them in 2025. Civil rights attorney Eshé Collins and business owner Nicole Evans Jones are vying to complete the remainder of former council member Keisha Sean Waites’ four-year term. Waites resigned earlier this year to run an unsuccessful campaign for Fulton County Superior Court Clerk. Evans Jones and Collins were the top two vote recipients in a Nov.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | John Kennedy |Dante Miller |Rebecca Grapevine |Healthbeat Atlanta
We’ve partnered with the AJC to help recognize amazing Georgians who have done their small part to make a big difference. We’ve profiled two of the 48 people who remind each of us that acts of kindness are never random. You can meet the rest of this year’s ‘Everyday Heroes’: ajc.com/heroesClarenton “Nicky” Crawford has devoted his golden years to serving unhoused people in Atlanta — but he’s quick to deflect any praise or recognition for his work.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Dante Miller |Chauncey Alcorn |John Kennedy |Rebecca Grapevine
Christina Louma has just one word to describe former President Donald Trump and his supporters’ claims of rampant noncitizen voting leading up to Election Day: “foolishness.”“I feel like they’re indirectly trying to intimidate us against voting,” Louma, a DeKalb County resident whose parents immigrated to the U.S. 25 years ago, told Capital B Atlanta. Louma echoes the concerns of Trump critics who say his voter fraud allegations are not only unfounded but also dangerous.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
atlanta.capitalbnews.org | Madeline Thigpen |Dante Miller |Rebecca Grapevine |Healthbeat Atlanta
Protesters gathered outside Fulton County Jail and Fulton County Courthouse on Thursday demanding change and accountability in response to a 97-page report released by the U.S. Department of Justice last week that exposed inhumane conditions at the facility. “I want them to know and to hear that this is not normal.
