Latest Ahmaud Arbery News
A police officer testifies that an ex-prosecutor never obstructed her in the Ahmaud Arbery case
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The case against a former Georgia district attorney charged with discouraging police from arresting the man who killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 took a blow Thursday as a police supervisor testified that the accused prosecutor never obstructed her during the investigation. ...
`You're going home,' police tell Ahmaud Arbery's killer in video shown to jury
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A jury watched video Wednesday of a police investigator telling the man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery that he wasn't being arrested soon after he, along with his father and a neighbor, chased and killed the Black man after spotting him running in their neighborhood. ...
Did Ahmaud Arbery's killers get help from a prosecutor? A jury hears clashing accounts
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys clashed before a trial jury Tuesday over whether a former prosecutor abused her power to try to protect the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in the streets of a quiet Georgia neighborhood nearly five years ago. Jackie Johnson served as...
Ahmaud Arbery's killers avoided arrest at first. Now an ex-prosecutor faces trial for misconduct
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Barely an hour after his son killed Ahmaud Arbery with a shotgun after they chased him through their neighborhood, Greg McMichael made a call for help to his former boss, the area's chief state prosecutor. “My son and I have been involved in a shooting, and I...
More than 200 potential jurors summoned for trial of prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery's death
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — More than 200 potential jurors were summoned Tuesday to a Georgia courthouse for questioning about whether they can serve impartially in the trial of a former prosecutor accused of meddling with police as they investigated the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery. ...
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wants to again speed up income tax cuts
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wants to again speed up state income tax cuts and is warning lawmakers that he'll call them back into special session later this year if that's what it takes to push through his priority of limiting lawsuit verdicts. The second-term governor...
Today in History: January 7, gunmen kill 12 at Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris
Today is Tuesday, Jan. 7, the seventh day of 2025. There are 358 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 7, 2015, masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a French newspaper that had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, methodically killing 12...
