georgia

Hamilton Nolan · 12/09/14 04:30PM

Robert Wayne Holsey, an intellectually disabled man who was represented at trial by an active alcoholic, is scheduled to be executed at 7 p.m. by the state of Georgia unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in. His final petition for his life can be seen here.

Woman Jailed for One Month After Cops Confused Her SpaghettiOs for Meth

Allie Jones · 09/29/14 03:29PM

Think twice the next time you want to gorge on SpaghettiOs in the privacy of your own car. Georgia resident Ashley Gabrielle Huff, 23, just got out of jail after spending over a month there because cops confused some leftover SpaghettiOs on her car spoon (we all have them) for meth.

Georgia Gov. Mistakes Hispanic College Student for an "Illegal"

Adam Weinstein · 08/28/14 12:40PM

Nathan Deal, the conservative Georgia governor who's in a tight re-election race against a grandson of Jimmy Carter, suffered a misstep Tuesday when he mistakenly assumed a Hispanic student speaking to him at the University of Georgia was an undocumented immigrant.

Good Guys Celebrate New Georgia Gun Law By Almost Shooting Each Other

Adam Weinstein · 07/02/14 09:57AM

Two legally armed Georgia men made good use of the state's open-carry law on its first day of implementation by starting a gun-rights pissing match in a convenience store, challenging each other's authority, and occasioning a drawdown and an arrest.

Ga. Teen Tied to Shopping Cart Drowns After Being Pushed In Lake

Dayna Evans · 05/26/14 06:35PM

Chance Werner, an eighteen-year-old from Cartersville, Georgia died on Saturday after he was tied to a shopping cart and pushed into a Lake Allatoona only hours after graduating from high school. The death was a result of a botched game he was playing with friends.

Vote for This Republican or He'll Use a Cannon on Obama or Something

Adam Weinstein · 04/25/14 03:25PM

Meet "the only licensed firearms dealer in America running for Congress," and by his own account, maybe the only congressional candidate "who will stand up to Obama" with a cannon if necessary, which it won't be, if only you'll vote for him.