WRIGHTSVILLE, Ga. — The Georgia Department of Corrections is responding after a corrections officer at Johnson State Prison was arrested for allegedly allowing the beating of two inmates ...

A convicted murderer and trained MMA fighter is on the loose after he was mistakenly released from Georgia prison when workers were not paying attention on the job, officials said. Kathan Guzman ...

But he didn’t decide to try to leave until the fall of 2022, when he found out that Russia’s Federal Security Service was ...

FILE - House Election Integrity Chairman Stan Gunter speaks about election bill SB 89 on Sine Die, the last day of the General Assembly at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Monday ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A Georgia bill that would reduce sentences for those who could tie their crimes to domestic abuse is on its way to becoming law. Women nationwide are in prison for killing their abusive partners ...

NEW YORK -- A Georgia businessman who scammed former NBA players Dwight Howard and Chandler Parsons out of millions of dollars was sentenced Thursday to more than 12 years in federal prison.