An Athens-Clarke County judge has convicted a Venezuelan national who entered the country illegally of murdering a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student, Laken Riley, on the University of Georgia campus in Athens.
Following the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation into Georgia’s state prisons, the state’s two senators urged the state to swiftly improve conditions in Georgia prisons, which the DOJ found were “unconstitutional.”
The city council opted to cancel a contract with a company building a surface parking lot near downtown and look for a new partner after “unanticipated conditions” arose.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Ohio EPA Director Anne M. Vogel announced $16.7 million in H2Ohio funding for 13 water infrastructure projects across the state.