Atlanta Mayor Shares New Details About Atlanta Child Murders Memorial

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced a memorial for victims of the Atlanta Child Murders will be placed outside of Atlanta City Hall.

During her Ask: The Mayor monthly conversation with GPB’s Rickey Bevington, Bottoms said the memorial will be in a green space on the Mitchell Street side of City Hall and there will also be an exhibit at Atlanta’s airport.

“Even people on my team had never heard of this part of Atlanta’s history,” Bottoms said. “And for us to now have this for the entire world to see I think is significant.

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Georgia Releases List Of 313,000 Voter Registrations To Be Removed In December

The Georgia Secretary of State’s office has released a list of Georgia voters that will be removed from the rolls later this year if they do not vote or respond to official election mail.

In all, 313,243 names of registered voters, or 4% of the state’s voter roll, are on the spreadsheet published Wednesday. A new state law means that in addition to this public list, those inactive voters set to be purged from the rolls will be notified by mail before being removed.

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Amy Mohon and Tony Spivey quit smoking traditional cigarettes more than two years before vaping-associated lung illness began being investigated by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments. CONTRIBUTED BY AMY MOHON

Third Georgia Death Linked To Vaping, E-Cigarette Users Blame Illegal Products

The Georgia Department of Public Health confirmed this week the third death in the state due to vaping-associated lung illness or EVALI. More than 1,600 people have been sickened nationwide and the Atlanta-based Centers For Disease Control and Prevention continues to investigate both legal and illegal vaping products.

But vaping advocates such as Amy Mohon of Marietta believe it's not the flavors in the e-juice making people sick. She and her husband, Tony Spivey, gave up traditional cigarettes more than two years ago in favor of vapor.

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St. Simons Sound Incident water quality team member Laura Hassold Prévot, environmental scientist, retrieves a water sample from the St. Simons Sound. Altamaha Riverkeeper and UGA are doing their own, separate, collection and testing. ST. SIMONS SOUND INC

Scientists Race To Track Oil From Capsized Ship

The capsized cargo ship Golden Ray is still trapped in St. Simons Sound. And, while trapped, it has repeatedly leaked oil. Teams of scientists are working to trace the oil and limit its impact on the delicate marsh ecosystem. But there could be disagreement about just how far the oil is spreading.

Before dawn on an October morning at the Champney River boat ramp, about half an hour north of where the Golden Ray sits looming over the St. Simon’s pier, Fletcher Sams could see a sheen on the water by the beam of his cellphone’s flashlight.

“It’s hard to see but you see, like, I’m not talking about the brown color I’m talking about the film on the top,” explained Sams, the executive director of Altamaha Riverkeeper. 

Sams used a stick to break up the oily film on the top of the water. It re-formed the second he pulled out the stick, a sign that it’s oil and not something natural

“And so poking it with a stick is the scientific method,” he joked.

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