Jeff Martin

1 month ago | telegraphherald.com | Jeff Martin |Jack Brook

NEW ORLEANS — Powerful storms with a threat of tornadoes are expected to punch through Louisiana and other parts of the South today just as costumed revelers celebrate Mardi Gras with huge parades and partying in the streets of New Orleans and other cities in the region. New Orleans moved up its two biggest Mardi Gras Day parades and cut down their routes to try to avoid the potentially destructive weather.

Nov 10, 2024 | telegraphherald.com | Jeff Martin

ATLANTA — A shooting early Sunday during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire, authorities said. One arrest was announced hours later. The agency did not say whether Myrick was a student at the historically Black university where the shooting erupted as the school’s 100th Homecoming Week was winding down.

Sep 6, 2024 | law.com | Jeff Amy |Jeff Martin

The 14-year-old suspect in a shooting that killed four people at a Georgia high school and his father will stay in custody after back-to-back court hearings Friday morning where their lawyers declined to seek bail. At Colt Gray’s hearing, the teen was advised of his rights along with the charges and penalties he faced for the shooting at the school where he was a student. Want to continue reading?

Jul 19, 2024 | law.com | Jeff Martin

A Georgia man was arraigned Thursday on federal charges of threatening to kill the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. John Donovan Woodbury, 34, of Roswell was arraigned in federal court in Atlanta, U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan announced. Woodbury was indicted by a grand jury on charges that he threatened to “assault, kidnap and murder” FBI Director Christopher Wray, court documents state. Want to continue reading?

Apr 27, 2024 | telegraphherald.com | Nick Ingram |Jeff Martin |Heather Hollingsworth

OMAHA, Neb. — Residents began sifting through the rubble Saturday after a tornado plowed through suburban Omaha, demolishing homes and businesses as it moved for miles through farmland and into subdivisions, then slamming an Iowa town. The Friday night tornadoes wreaked havoc in the Midwest, causing a building to collapse with dozens of people inside and destroying and damaging hundreds of homes. There were several injuries but no fatalities reported.