Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former state Rep. Dexter Sharper, a seven-term lawmaker who was first elected in 2012, resigned from his seat in the state House ...

Former state Rep. Dexter Sharper pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to the government to receive unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic, making him the second Democratic legislator to do so ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. Another Democratic member of the Georgia House of ...

Former Georgia state Rep. Dexter Sharper, a Valdosta Democrat, pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges in court as part of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into pandemic-related fraud.