Tim Darnell
Investigative Digital Content Producer
Atlanta News First
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Tim Darnell is the Investigative Digital Content Producer for Atlanta News First.
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Georgia's favorite son entered hospice care months ago, yet is about to mark another milestone.
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Police said he was identified as a suspect through open source ancestry sites to which law enforcement has access.
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Former President Donald Trump’s lead Georgia attorney has notified Fulton County Superior Court that he may move to transfer his case out of state court and into a federal one.
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The “Stop Cop City” effort has gone on for more than two years.
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At this hearing, Donald Trump and his lawyers are expected to hear his charges and will be able to enter a plea.
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Rudy Giuliani surrendered to authorities in Georgia on Wednesday on charges alleging he acted as former President Donald Trump’s chief co-conspirator in a plot to subvert the 2020 election.
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A list of bond agreements and surrenders in Fulton County's indictment of the 45th president.
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The first co-defendant in a sweeping indictment out of Fulton County has surrendered to Fulton County jail, according to the sheriff’s office website.
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A $200,000 bond agreement was reached for former President Donald Trump hours before he made his announcement.
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The nation's 45th president is facing a host of legal troubles as he campaigns to retake the White House in 2024, including here in metro Atlanta.
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Following his exit from “Claim to Fame,” Hugo Wentzel gave an update on his famous grandparents.
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Over the weekend, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis shared at least one message with Fulton County commissioners and staffers in the county’s judicial system
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The former president's attorneys were hoping the court would also prohibit further investigation from Fulton DA Fani Willis.
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The nation’s 45th president also wants Fulton DA Fani Willis to be blocked from further investigations.
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Victoria Bowles was one of two survivors in a January 2023 crash that killed Chandler LeCroy and Devin Willock.
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Vaping in public, dogfighting, teacher pay raises and other new laws were passed by Georgia lawmakers earlier this year.
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Numerous allegations against the county's election department and two workers were false, Georgia's Elections Board has ruled.
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Speculation continues to mount that Georgia's popular two-term governor could enter next year's presidential race.
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Georgia is once again the focus of the nation's political attention, with this weekend's state Republican convention.
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Justin Harris left his son Cooper in his car in June 2014. Harris was supposed to drop his son off at daycare on the way to his job at Home Depot but did not do so.
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Eric Tolbert was facing five charges related to the heat-related deaths of three of his dogs last year.
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Jeffery Williams is involved in a massive racketeering and organized crime trial in Fulton County.
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The DA has been investigating Donald Trump's campaign for almost a year into alleged interference in Georgia's 2020 presidential election.
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The nation's 45th president has been charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records.
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The Georgia state legislature is convening for its final day on Wednesday.
Fulton County District Fani Willis, who has been investigating alleged election interference from Donald Trump for almost a year, has been ordered to respond by May 1 to the former president’s request to quash her special grand jury’s report.
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On March 16, 2021, eight people were killed and metro Atlanta's entire Asian community was traumatized.
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Jury selection in Jeffery Williams' RICO trial has already lasted more than eight weeks with not a single juror seated.
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The Republican congresswoman posted details about the alleged incident on Twitter.
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The nation's 39th president continues receiving hospice care at his Plains, Georgia, home.
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The Georgia Sports Betting Integrity Act is this year's first legislative attempt to legalize online sports betting in Georgia.
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The governor's proposed budget was presented to lawmakers on Friday.
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Hanwha Q CELLS’ investment will bring about 2,500 jobs to the state, according to U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and the Biden administration.
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A federal judge has ruled against Fair Fight Action’s claims of voter suppression in Georgia.
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Jon Burns was elected 75th speaker of the House on lawmakers first day in session.
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Jurors are watching a four-hour video of Judge Ural Glanville reading the entire indictment involving the rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Williams.
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The senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church won reelection this past December.
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A new lieutenant governor and a new House Speaker are joining Gov. Brian Kemp as the state’s top political leaders.
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Brian Kemp, Herschel Walker, Raphael Warnock, Stacey Abrams and Andre Dickens also dominated this year’s political headlines.
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The Republican secretary of state wants state lawmakers to consider reforms.
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Former president Barack Obama returned to Atlanta Thursday to campaign for Warnock. Georgia’s nationally watched U.S. Senate runoff is set for Dec. 6.
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Georgia is also recording a huge number of absentee ballots and will break the 2018 record.
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The race between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker could have national political implications heading into 2024.
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The court rejected a GOP request to stop Saturday early voting in the Senate runoff between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker.
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Neither candidate in Georgia's nationally watched U.S. Senate runoff has enough of a majority to win the race outright.
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The Georgia Trust is hoping its annual Places in Peril list will help save some of the state's most historic locations from demolition.
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Georgia's Dec. 6 runoff will either increase Democrats' majority in the Senate or split the body evenly at 50-50.
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Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker are set to meet in a Dec. 6 Senate runoff.
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Neither candidate have earned the required majority to win Georgia's nationally watched Senate race outright.
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Georgia's governor's race was one of the most watched campaigns in the nation.
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