Local lawmakers are celebrating this week's passage of Senate Bill 356 , which will amend an existing law so the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust can better serve the state.
"It's just so wonderful to have a potential for a progressive Democrat to capture the district, and to send a message that we don't approve of the Trump agenda and the direction he's taking the country in," Bruce Johnson said as he gathered at Jon Ossoff's campaign office on Saturday morning to begin knocking on doors ahead of Tuesday's Johnson, 58, is an attorney in Silver Spring who's lived in the area for more than 20 years. He lamented that Democrats have never put up anyone other than a sacrificial lamb to run against Republican candidates here, particularly former Rep. Tom Price, whose appointment as President Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services triggered Tuesday's special election.
Police announced 12 additional felony charges against a man accused of holding eight women against their will inside a multimillion-dollar home in Sandy Springs, Ga. Friday, police said Kenndric Roberts, 33, is now facing five counts of false imprisonment, five counts of trafficking a person for labor and two counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
A federal appeals court has upheld a ban on the sale of sex toys in Sandy Springs, Georgia - but acknowledged the decision probably won't stand, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports . A panel of three judges on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta made the decision, saying they had no choice but to follow a 2004 case precedent.