Almost two years after the murder of Laken Riley, the University of Georgia and Athens communities will gather at UGA’s Tate Plaza on Saturday, Feb. 21 to honor her memory ...

Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and other committee leaders formally discussed skipping the address for the first ...

Bryant Sempoalt Chavez was brought to the U.S. from Mexico in 2002, just before his 4th birthday, with his family settling in ...

They argue that while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee ...

A judge has set a March 2 deadline for lawyers to file briefs regarding a new trial for Jose Ibarra. Ibarra was previously convicted of murdering nursing student Laken Riley on the University of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Over a year after the Laken Riley Act became a federal law, Alabama legislators are now working to get it passed on the state level. The Laken Riley Act is named for a ...

ATHENS, Ga. — The man convicted of killing nursing student Laken Riley on the University of Georgia campus is in court Friday, and a judge is hearing Jose Ibarra’s attorneys’ motion for a new trial.

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A judge considering whether to grant a new trial to the Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley heard testimony Friday from a DNA expert retained by ...