SAVANNAH, Ga.—Prosecutors want the rapper Quando Rondo sent back to jail after he crashed a car while free on bond pending trial on gang and drug charges. The 24-year-old rapper, whose given name Tyquian Terrel Bowman, was indicted last month in his hometown of Savannah. He was released from jail June 26 on a $100,000…

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia denied former President Donald J. Trump’s attempt to scuttle a grand jury report in Fulton County on the 2020 presidential election in that state. The July 17 decision follows his repeated attempts to quash that special purpose grand jury report, which could lead…

ALTO, Ga.—Five people are dead after a wreck on a busy northeast Georgia highway. State troopers say Avonlea Holtzclaw of Dahlonega was trying to cross U.S. 23 in a Ford Explorer Sunday afternoon when a driver going northbound hit her. The wreck happened near Alto in Habersham County. Ms. Holtzclaw, 29, died in the wreck…

HAMPTON, Ga.—Officers on Sunday shot and killed a man wanted in four-weekend killings near Atlanta during an exchange of gunfire, with a sheriff’s deputy and two police officers wounded while trying to take the suspect into custody, authorities said. Officials said Andre Longmore was shot during an intense manhunt for the 40-year-old suspect. The exchange…

HAMPTON, Ga.—Authorities in Georgia spent hours Saturday hunting for a man suspected of gunning down three men and a woman in a suburban neighborhood south of Atlanta. Andre Longmore, a 40-year-old from Hampton, is believed to be armed and dangerous, Hampton’s police chief, James Turner, said during a news conference. The shootings happened late Saturday…

ATLANTA—A woman seriously injured in the January car crash that killed Georgia offensive lineman Devin Willock and an athletics staffer has sued the school’s athletics association and former Bulldogs defensive tackle Jalen Carter for damages. Victoria S. Bowles was riding in the backseat of the rented Ford Expedition driven by fellow UGA recruiting analyst Chandler…

Kia said on Wednesday it will invest more than $200 million in its assembly plant in the U.S. state of Georgia to begin production of its electric EV9 SUV next year. The Korean automaker said the company will add about 200 jobs to build the three-row SUV alongside four other models at the West Point,…

A member of the Georgia state House of Representatives has switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, after breaking with her former party over issues like school choice and policing. “My name is Rep. Meisha Mainor and today I made the decision to leave the Democrat Party,” Ms. Mainor wrote on Twitter Tuesday. “I represent…

FORT STEWART, Ga.—A person was arrested after a military Humvee crashed into the Army office building for commanders and other top leaders at Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia. The vehicle plowed through the glass front doors of the Army post’s headquarters building Monday morning. No injuries were reported and a suspect was taken into custody,…

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.—Police arrested a man Monday suspected of shooting and injuring an investigator with a metro Atlanta prosecutor’s office while both were driving. The investigator with the Gwinnett County district attorney’s office was not on duty when he was shot in the leg around 6 p.m. Friday by another driver, police said. The motive was…