The Latest Breaking News from Atlanta

ATLANTA — The Fulton County judge overseeing the special grand jury that’s examining whether there was any criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 elections said Thursday that 11 “alternate” Republican electors who were recently deemed targets of the probe would need to honor subpoenas for their testimony.

ATLANTA — SEC Media Days 2022 closed with a bang Thursday. How could anything that ends with Jimbo Fisher talking not?

ATLANTA — Not that he wasn’t already well-compensated, but Georgia’s Kirby Smart now ranks among the highest paid college football coaches in the country.

ATLANTA — Georgia resident Alana Thompson, the 16-year-old made famous a decade ago with the reality show "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo," is planning to undergo weight-loss surgery in hopes of getting healthier.

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp's internal metrics paint an optimistic portrait of his chances in November against Stacey Abrams. They also signal a potential opening among voters of color.

ATLANTA — It was Nov. 16, 2002, a cold day at Auburn. On fourth-and-15 with 1:25 left, David Greene threw long for Michael Johnson, who outjumped Horace Willis, who didn’t jump. On that day of deliverance, coach Mark Richt said his Bulldogs “knocked the lid off the Georgia program.”

ATLANTA — The SEC in 2022 is not without excellent quarterbacks. Alabama’s Bryce Young. Tennessee’s Hendon Hooker. Georgia’s Stetson Bennett. Arkansas’ KJ Jefferson. None, however, not even Young, returning Heisman Trophy winner, has felt the summer spotlight quite like Kentucky’s Will Levis.

ATLANTA — Stetson Bennett asked to hear the question three times, addressing a scrum of reporters at SEC Media Day on Wednesday.

ATLANTA — Florida Gators quarterback Anthony Richardson has been on the cover of preseason magazines, mentioned as a possible top-10 NFL draft pick and gone viral with a 73-yard throw at the Manning Passing Academy.

ATLANTA — A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that Georgia’s restrictive abortion law should be allowed to take effect, an outcome that’s been expected since the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion for nearly 50 years.

ATLANTA — Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, is being ordered to appear in front of a Fulton County special grand jury next month after failing to attend a hearing in New York to challenge a recent subpoena.