A new book called ‘The Newcomer’s Guide to Georgia’ is full of tips and information for people new to the Peach State, but it’s also got some things to do and see that even native Georgians might not know about. Before penning his latest book, former ‘Atlanta Journal and Constitution’ reporter Don O’Briant helped the founder of WJBF News Channel 6, J.B. Fuqua, write his autobiography.

A new book called ‘The Newcomer’s Guide to Georgia’ is full of tips and information for people new to the Peach State, but it’s also got some things to do and see that even native Georgians might not know about. Before penning his latest book, former ‘Atlanta Journal and Constitution’ reporter Don O’Briant helped the founder of WJBF News Channel 6, J.B. Fuqua, write his autobiography.

Federal prosecutors will not bring charges against Atlanta courthouse gunman Brian Nichols, who was convicted last year of murdering a judge, a court reporter, a sheriff’s deputy and a federal agent. Local prosecutors encouraged their federal counterparts to bring additional charges in hopes that Nichols could still face lethal injection after he avoided the state’s death penalty.

A juror in the trial against courthouse gunman Brian Nichols says the three holdouts who voted against the death penalty for the gunman may have already made their minds up before the trial began.

A judge has sentenced the man who killed four people in a brazen courthouse escape to life in prison and hundreds of years on more than fifty charges.  Superior Court Judge James Bodiford was required by law to sentence Brian Nichols to life in prison with or without chance of parole after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on a death sentence.

A jury has failed to reach a unanimous decision on how to sentence a man who killed a judge and three other people in a shooting spree that started in a downtown Atlanta courthouse.  Prosecutors had asked the jury to sentence Brian Nichols to death. Under Georgia law, the judge will now decide whether to sentence the 37-year-old to life in prison with parole eligibility or life in prison without parole. He has set a hearing Saturday to decide.

Jurors have returned for a fourth day of deliberations over whether to sentence courthouse gunman Brian Nichols to life in prison or death.

A jury has told a judge that it is unable to reach a unanimous decision on a sentence in the case against a man who killed a judge and three other people in a shooting spree that started in a downtown Atlanta courthouse.

Jurors will return Wednesday to continue deliberating whether to condemn gunman Brian Nichols to death or sentence him to life behind bars for murdering a judge and three other people in violence that began at a downtown Atlanta courthouse.

Testimony has ended in the trial of an Atlanta man who escaped during his rape trial and went on a courthouse shooting spree that left four people dead.

Twice in the past week weapons have been discovered and confiscated from persons attending the trial of Brian Gene Nichols.

Fulton County deputies have emptied the courtroom used to hold the trial of courthouse gunman Brian Nichols. The officers emptied the courtroom Tuesday morning and used security dogs to sweep the courtroom and most of the sixth floor of the Atlanta Municipal Courthouse. Court spokesman Don Plummer said there was a “security issue” but did not elaborate.

The death penalty phase is under way in the case of a gunman found guilty of killing four people in a shooting spree that began at a downtown Atlanta courthouse. Brian Nichols was found guilty Friday in the fatal shootings of a judge, a court reporter, a deputy and a federal agent in the 2005 rampage.

The death penalty phase has been delayed until Wednesday in the case of a gunman found guilty of killing four people in a shooting spree that began at a downtown Atlanta courthouse.

A jury has convicted a man of murder in a 2005 shooting spree that began at an Atlanta courthouse and left a judge and three others dead.    The jury deliberated for 12 hours before finding 36-year-old Brian Nichols guilty Friday.