A federal grand jury has indicted a former Georgia sheriff's sergeant on civil rights charges.

A former Georgia sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to federal prison in the beating three years ago of a Black jail detainee who was punched repeatedly by guards who rushed into his cell.

Attorneys for a Georgia jail detainee are demanding the firings and arrests of guards recorded by security cameras repeatedly punching the inmate in his cell.

The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire as sheriff's deputies with a drug warrant raided her cousin's home have filed a lawsuit in federal court.

A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force a company to sell it 4,000 acres on which the county has long planned to build a launch pad for commercial rockets.

A Georgia county’s plan to buy land for launching commercial rockets has been rejected by voters in a referendum forced by opponents concerned about environmental and safety risks.

A federal agency on Monday granted a license for a launchpad that would fly commercial rockets from coastal Georgia.

The National Park Service is pushing back against a Federal Aviation Administration report recommending approval of a launch pad for commercial rockets off the Georgia coast.

A coastal community in southeast Georgia hopes to soon find out whether the federal government will allow it to build a launch site for commercial rockets.

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. – A local high school graduate is getting special recognition from U.S. Senator Tim Kaine. “Roughly 12 years ago this time we were finishing up Kindergarten,” Maggie Mace said in her three minute graduation video. Mace is a 2020 Brookville High School graduate who sent in a video for Tim Kaine’s “Everybody’s the Graduation Speaker” contest. Click here to watch Mace’s entire three-minute graduation video.

Health officials said Friday that they were seeking to inform mass numbers of unknown people after a person who attended crowded pool parties over Memorial Day weekend at Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks tested positive for COVID-19. Camden County Health Department said in a release that the resident of Boone County in mid-Missouri tested positive on Sunday after arriving at the lake area a day earlier. Backwater Jacks owner Gary Prewitt said previously in a statement that no laws were broken, though the images appeared to show people violating Republican Gov. Mike Parsons state order requiring social distancing. Parson allowed businesses and attractions to reopen May 4, but the state order requires 6-foot (2-meter) social distancing through at least the end of May.

A 22-month-old girl died Friday afternoon after being left inside a hot car in New Jersey. Anyone with information is asked to call the Camden County Prosecutors Office at 856-676-8175 or email ccpotips@ccprosecutor.org. The majority of hot car deaths are accidental, according to NoHeatStroke.org. Last year was the deadliest on record, with 52 children dying inside hot cars. RELATED STORIESHero 12-Year-Old Bashes in Car's Windshield to Save Toddler in Hot CarMom Desperately Tries to Free 10-Month-Old Baby Accidentally Locked in Hot Car13-Year-Old Girl With Special Needs Dies in Hot Car