CHARLOTTE KRAMON

Pamela Winn and Dr. Travis Emory Barber sit under a tent to register voters in west Atlanta, on Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)
Advocates in Georgia face barriers getting people who were formerly incarcerated to vote
A new report from The Sentencing Project estimates that the number of people who cannot vote because of prior convictions has decreased slightly, but advocates still struggle to turn this population out.
October 10, 2024
District Attorney Shalena Cook Jones responds to a question during the League of Women Voters of Coastal Georgia candidate forum with Republican challenger Andre Pretorius on Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah, Ga. (Richard Burkhart/Savannah Morning News via AP)
Progressive prosecutors in Georgia faced backlash from the start. They say it’s all politics.
Two progressive district attorneys up for reelection in Georgia are under attack for low conviction rates and allegations of poor management.
October 4, 2024
A person holds a program after a naturalization ceremony one hundred people to become U.S. citizens at the high school attended by former President Jimmy Carter on Carter's 100th birthday Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Jimmy Carter and his hometown of Plains celebrate the 39th president’s 100th birthday
Former president Jimmy Carter has reached his 100th birthday. It is the first time an American president has lived a full century, a life that took the Depression-era farmer’s son to the White House and beyond as an advocate for democracy.
October 2, 2024
Students arrive at Apalachee High School, after the school reopened almost three weeks after a deadly shooting on campus, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Weeks after a school shooting, students return for classes at Apalachee High School
Students have begun pouring into Apalachee High School weeks after a school shooter killed two students and two teachers. Some students were still uneasy Tuesday about returning.
September 24, 2024
Parents and children speak in a meeting at the state Capitol, where children spoke to legislators about gun violence, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
Young students protest against gun violence at Georgia Senate meeting
Students as young as five demanded stricter gun laws Thursday at the Georgia Capitol, weeks after a deadly school shooting northeast of Atlanta.
September 19, 2024
FILE - Chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during the hearing on Sexual Abuse of Female Inmates in Federal Prisons, Dec. 13, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff seeks more control over postmaster general after mail meltdown
As the U.S. Postal Service faces delivery slowdowns, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia, has proposed legislation to impose stricter oversight on who leads the agency.
September 19, 2024
FILE - Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns, R-Newington speaks to reporters after the House adjourns in the early hours of Friday, March 29, 2024 in Atlanta. (Matthew Pearson/WABE via AP, File)
Georgia Republican leader seeks policy changes after school shooting but Democrats want more
Georgia’s state House speaker says lawmakers in 2025 will consider new policies after a school shooting killed four at a high school northeast of Atlanta.
September 12, 2024
A poster with images of shooting victims from left, Cristina Irimie, Mason Schermerhorn, Richard Aspinwall and Christian Angulo is displayed at a memorial outside Apalachee High School, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)
Most students in a Georgia district return to class nearly a week after a school shooting
Many students in Georgia’s Barrow County headed back to class six days after a school shooting killed two teachers and two students at Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta. No return date is set for that high school.
September 10, 2024
FILE - The five Republican members of the Georgia Public Service Commission discuss a rate increase for Georgia Power Co. to pay costs at the utility's Vogtle nuclear power plant, Dec. 19, 2023 in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)
Residents are ready to appeal after a Georgia railroad company got approval to forcibly buy land
Residents in one of Georgia’s poorest areas vow to appeal a ruling that allows a railroad company to force them to sell their land.
September 6, 2024
Mark Gorman holds a candle during a candlelight vigil for the slain students and teachers at Apalachee High School, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
What we know so far about the victims of the Apalachee school shooting in Georgia
Authorities in Georgia say a 14-year-old high school student has been charged as an adult with using an assault-style rifle to kill two students and two teachers in the hallway outside his algebra classroom.
September 6, 2024
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens speaks at a press conference in Woodruff Park on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024. Cathryn Vassell, CEO of Partners for Home, and Frank Fernandez, President and CEO at Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, stand beside him. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)
Atlanta mayor proposes $60M to house the homeless
Atlanta’s mayor wants the city to spend an additional $60 million to house homeless residents. If the City Council approves it, officials plan to use a combination of public and private funding to build permanent affordable housing and rapid rehousing units with supportive services.
September 3, 2024
FILE - Democrat Ashwin Ramaswami, who is currently running for a Georgia state Senate seat in a suburban Atlanta district against Republican incumbent Shawn Still, speaks during an interview on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Cumming, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)
A Georgia Democrat seeks to unseat an indicted Trump elector who says he only did what he was told
A suburban Atlanta senate race is receiving national attention and money as a young Georgia Democrat charges his opponent with election denial and extremism.
August 31, 2024
Georgia lawmakers seek answers to deaths and violence plaguing the state’s prisons
Statistics presented to Georgia lawmakers indicate that the state’s prisons remain seriously understaffed and plagued by violence and deaths.
August 29, 2024
FILE - Georgia Sen. Emanuel Jones, D-Decatur, speaks in opposition to a bill loosening gun laws, March 28, 2017, at the state Capitol in Atlanta. (Bob Andres/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
Georgia lawmaker urges panel to consider better firearms safety rules to deter child gun deaths
Georgia gun owners, lawmakers and national advocates have been discussing how to encourage people to secure their firearms. The Senate Safe Firearm Storage Study Committee met for the first time Tuesday. Georgia Sen.
August 20, 2024
FILE - Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., center right, leaves the Albany County Courthouse, Aug. 6, 2024, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)
Democrats, others seek to toss Kennedy off November ballot in Georgia and New York
Challengers seeking to throw Robert F. Kennedy Jr. off Georgia’s presidential ballot say he must be disqualified because the New York address he used on Georgia ballot access petitions is a sham.
August 19, 2024
Former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal poses. in Atlanta, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. Deal has written a children’s book about his two cats, continuing his efforts to improve the state's literacy rates. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)
A Georgia governor’s latest work after politics: a children’s book on his cats ‘Veto’ and ‘Bill’
Former Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has written a children’s book about his two cats, continuing to champion for early literacy efforts.
August 7, 2024
Sparta residents attend a Georgia Public Service Commission hearing on whether a railroad company can use eminent domain to condemn property in their community, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)
Georgia property owners battle railroad company in ongoing eminent domain case
A railroad company wants to use eminent domain to condemn property in one of Georgia’s poorest areas.
August 6, 2024
Former Georgia gym owner indicted for sexual exploitation of children
A Georgia man who used to own a gym has been indicted on federal charges involving sexual exploitation of children. The federal indictment charged Walter Joey Drew, who is 41, on 17 counts.
August 1, 2024
Joan Browning and Charles Person chat at Emory University in Atlanta, Fridy, July 26, 2024. They were Freedom Riders. activists who rode buses into the Deep South in 1961, aiming to desegregate interstate transportation. Browning and Person are donating their archives to the university's Rose Library. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)
Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders urge younger activists to get out the vote
During the Civil Rights Movement, young people put their bodies on the line as Freedom Riders, boarding buses to protest segregation.
July 31, 2024
FILE -- Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger attends the National Association of Secretaries of State winter meeting, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023, in Washington. A site unveiled by the Republican Raffensperger on Monday, July 29, 2024, allows people to cancel voter registrations more easily, but a glitch briefly displayed personal information of voters. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)
Georgia website that lets people cancel voter registrations briefly displayed personal data
Georgia election officials are encouraging people to use a state website to cancel voter registrations when someone moves out of state or dies.
July 30, 2024
Norma Bibiano, center, holds a news conference with her attorney, left, in Decatur, Ga., on Thursday, July 25, 2024. Norma Bibiano son, Juan Ramirez Bibiano, an inmate at Telfair State Prison in Georgia, died of heart and lung failure after officers left him in an outdoor cell in the summer heat for five hours without water or ice, despite instructions from a warden to limit the amount of time inmates spend outdoors, a lawsuit filed by his family says (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)
Man dies at 27 from heat exposure at a Georgia prison, lawsuit says
Officers left Ramirez in an outdoor cell at Telfair State Prison on July 20, 2023, for five hours without water, shade or ice, even as the outside temperature climbed to 96 degrees by the afternoon, according to a lawsuit brought by his family. That evening, the complaint says, Ramirez died of heart
July 25, 2024
Hugh Kieve, 10, of Washington, holds a sign outside the White House in Washington, Sunday, July 21, 2024, as he and his family come out to show support for President Joe Biden. Biden dropped out of the 2024 race for the White House on Sunday, ending his bid for reelection following a disastrous debate with Donald Trump that raised doubts about his fitness for office just four months before the election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Biden’s decision to drop out leaves Democrats across the country relieved and looking toward future
Voters nationwide reacted with relief and hope to news that President Joe Biden would drop his reelection bid.
July 22, 2024
A dining area at Francis Ford Coppola's All-Movie Hotel is shown on Monday, July 15, 2024, in Peachtree City, Ga. The hotel is a mixed-use property for production companies and tourists excited about film. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ wrapped at this Georgia hotel. Soon, it’ll be open for business
The newest Coppola family property, The All-Movie, will soon host production companies and tourists in Peachtree City, an Atlanta suburb.
July 17, 2024
FILE - Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, May 24, 2024. Georgia Democrats are challenging efforts to place Kennedy and three other candidates on the state's presidential ballots, part of a nationwide effort to block candidates who could siphon votes from incumbent President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Georgia Democrats file challenges to keep Kennedy and others off presidential ballot
Georgia Democrats are challenging efforts to place Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and three other candidates on the state’s presidential ballots It’s part of a nationwide effort to block candidates who could siphon votes from incumbent President Joe Biden.
July 15, 2024
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