...commissioners have suggested they could be collected through Magistrate Court, but I do believe that will happen over the magistrate judges' dead bodies. DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO: The ambulance contract is also creating controversy. Commissioners agreed...

...officials say.In Gwinnett County, the court administrator called such cases "quite rare."In Cobb County, just 13 cases have been dismissed during the past five years because officers failed to appear, the chief magistrate judge said.

...where he worked, would protect him. Cochran, who's in his early 40s, served one full term as a Murray County magistrate judge and was re-elected by a wide margin last summer even as allegations against him swirled. He stepped down amid...

...with simple battery on Thursday, was granted a $2,500 bond during his first appearance before a Fulton County magistrate judge Friday morning.Moore was in court at the 9 a.m. hearing at the jail, according to Fulton County police spokeswoman...

...County's.James, Chief Civil and Magistrate Judge William Jennings and Presiding Civil and Magistrate Judge Scott Allen are seeking raises...By comparison, civil and magistrate judges earn $163,322 in Chatham...

...members and both Augusta senators must approve it.Among those who have reached out to the delegation are civil and magistrate judges Bill Jennings and Scott Allen and Coroner Grover Tuten, whose salaries the delegation has not examined or adjusted...

...for Armstrong's seventh victory in 2005. Armstrong was stripped of those titles this year.Last week, federal Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson in Washington ordered the subpoena and Armstrong's efforts to keep it private released to the...

...volunteer during a prayer service at a Georgia megachurch will face a murder trial, a judge ruled Friday.Fulton County Magistrate Judge Karen Smith Woodson found there is probable cause to move forward with charges of murder, felony murder, aggravated...

...arrest downtown on Dec. 11. A March 4 trial is scheduled.According to a sworn statement presented to U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Leon Barfield in Augusta to obtain permission to search Abukhdair's belongings last month, Abukhdair had been...

...information confidential.According to the indictment, summarized in federal court Tuesday afternoon by U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Leon Barfield, two of the defendants collected patients' personal identity and health care information through...