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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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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Instead of holding arraignment hearings today, a judge will take up scheduling issues surrounding speedy trial requests.
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The “Stop Cop City” effort has gone on for more than two years.
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Trump pleads not guilty, waives arraignment | Kemp rejects special session to sanction Willis | Continuing coverage
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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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Complete reports on Trump's booking, remarks, arrival and departure.
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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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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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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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Numerous allegations against the county's election department and two workers were false, Georgia's Elections Board has ruled.
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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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Lashawn Thompson was found dead in his jail cell after being in the Fulton County Jail for three months on a misdemeanor charge.
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The checks will examine election management systems, ballot marking devices and scanners, as well as software checks.
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Last year, Willis opened a criminal investigation into alleged attempts from the nation's 45th president to influence Georgia's 2020 election.
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Southern Democratic leaders had been urging President Joe Biden to choose Atlanta as the host for its next convention.
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Fulton County special grand jury finds no widespread fraud in Georgia's 2020 presidential election outcome.
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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 senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church won reelection this past December.
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The Republican secretary of state wants state lawmakers to consider reforms.
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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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With Brian Kemp entering a second term as governor, the state legislature has two new leaders for the first time in decades.
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Georgia's nationally watched 2022 midterm elections were held Tuesday.
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Georgia's secretary of state campaign attracted national attention after the 2020 election controversy.
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Georgia's nationally watched governor's race is entering its final weeks.
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Wellstar is closing Atlanta Medical Center, which has stunned the city's political, business and social communities.
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Georgia's governor asks for more time to work with investigators after this fall's midterms.
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Atlanta becomes the first city to host a second national football championship game since the playoff format began.
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On Monday, the Superior Court of Fulton County declined to place an injunction while another lawsuit proceeds through the courts.
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Rudy Guiliani will testify as part of a grand jury investigation into alleged attempts to tamper with the 2020 presidential election.
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Georgia U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff convened a hearing Tuesday examining alleged corruption at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta.
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Fulton Superior Court said Fani Willis' fundraiser for Democrat Charlie Bailey has caused concerns about her impartiality.
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The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the injunction on the 'heartbeat bill,' which mostly outlaws abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.
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The city was officially named Thursday afternoon as a host city for the tournament, an event that could bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the metro area.
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