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News Articles: 911

Chatham Emergency Services ambulance

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Lawmakers are considering multi-million-dollar upgrade to Georgia’s aging 911 infrastructure

The Next Generation 911 system would include technology used to improve response times.

March 03, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
Steve Hochman speaks with GPB's Peter Biello at the Carter Center on October 1, 2024.

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  • News

Jimmy Carter's editor says he preferred 'peanut farmer language'

After leaving office in 1981, former President Jimmy Carter continued to write and give speeches. But all writers, even former presidents, need editors. And for Carter, Steve Hochman filled that role.

January 03, 2025
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  • Peter Biello
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin nullified the plea deal with the defendants accused of plotting the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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  • National Security

Defense secretary revokes plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters

The previous agreements exchanged guilty pleas from the men for sentences of at most, life in prison.

August 03, 2024
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged 9/11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in March 2003 in this photo obtained by The Associated Press. The man accused of being the main plotter in al-Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has agreed to plead guilty, The Defense Department said Wednesday.

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  • Law

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter of 9/11, agrees to plead guilty

Mohammed and two accomplices agreed to plead guilty in exchange for sentences of up to life in prison rather than face a death-penalty trial.

August 01, 2024
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer
pinning ceremony

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  • Health

Macon celebrates new class of firefighters amid efforts to beat shortage

Firefighters do more than just put out fires -- they also respond to 9-1-1 calls when police can’t make it. But nationwide, employing firefighters has been a challenge while calls for service have gone up.

July 04, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
A volunteer group of retirees, known as the Skidaway Island First Responders, are in a dispute with Chatham County emergency officials over dispatching to emergency calls in their community. Credit: Facebook screenshot

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  • News

Skidaway volunteer group disputes with Chatham over emergency calls

Chatham officials say the group is unlicensed and a legal liability. 

March 14, 2024
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  • Jake Shore
On Sept. 11, 2001, 343 firefighters and paramedics were killed, most when the towers collapsed. Now, an equal number have died from 9/11-related illnesses, the FDNY says.

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  • National

FDNY deaths from 9/11-related illnesses now equal the number killed on Sept. 11

Two recent deaths brought the total to 343, matching the death toll from Sept. 11, the FDNY said. Some 11,000 former and current FDNY employees suffer from 9/11-related illnesses, 3,500 with cancer.

September 26, 2023
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  • Becky Sullivan
A U.S. Naval officer stands at the entrance of the U.S. prison at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Oct. 22, 2016.

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  • National Security

Guantánamo Bay detainees continue to face 'inhuman' treatment, U.N. investigator finds

The United Nations report says 30 men remained detained at Guantánamo Bay — 19 of whom have never been charged with a crime. The investigator says the infamous site should be shuttered.

June 27, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
More than two decades after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, the five men accused have still not gone to trial, and four presidential administrations have wrestled with the Guantánamo problem.

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  • Investigations

A year after plea talks began, the 9/11 case is still in limbo, frustrating families

Settlement talks began a year ago in the 9/11 terrorism case. But little progress has been made, dragging out the future of the problem-plagued U.S. military court and prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

March 11, 2023
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  • Sacha Pfeiffer
Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Health care top campaign issue; 9/11 tributes; Pine Lake decriminalizes abortion

Monday on Political Rewind: The Atlanta Medical Center is closing. How will candidates motivate voters concerned by a shrinking health care safety net? Meanwhile, the Walker campaign says Sen. Raphael Warnock and other Democrats "use race to divide us." Elsewhere, a women-led city moves to decriminalize abortion.

September 12, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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Photo of person hit by car

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  • Investigations

17 pedestrians died on Bibb County roads in 2021. How long did they wait for help?

An analysis of 17 reports involving pedestrian deaths in 2021 showed the average time from the 911 call to the Bibb County deputy’s arrival was 9 minutes and 30 seconds. However, several response times neared or exceeded 20 minutes.

April 11, 2022
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  • Laura Corley
Family members and loved ones of victims of those who died on 9/11 attend the 20th anniversary commemoration ceremony on Saturday at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City.

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  • National

A Day Of Remembrances And Reflection: 20 Years After The 9/11 Attacks

On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation paused to remember. Ceremonies took place at memorials in New York City; in Shanksville, Pa.; and at the Pentagon.

September 11, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
Danielle Booker hugs her mother, Sharon Booker, as the two remember Sean Booker, Danielle's father and Sharon's husband, at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum during a ceremony on Saturday in Manhattan. Sean Booker was a technician on the 93rd floor of the World Trade Center's north tower when he was killed during the 2001 attacks.

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  • National

Photos: Scenes From 9/11 National Memorials

On the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, multiple ceremonies commemorated the nearly 3,000 lives that were lost on that day.

September 11, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin,
  • Catie Dull,
  • and 1 more
Ali Malik, 37, with his sons Muhammad Binyamin, 9, and Layth Noah, 5. Malik is part of a class action lawsuit against the FBI alleging religious discrimination and violations of surveillance laws.

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  • National

For Many American Muslims, The Legacy Of 9/11 Lies In The Battle For Civil Rights

A Southern California community grapples with the legacy of being secretly surveilled by the FBI. Twenty years later, the matter is a legal fight that has reached the Supreme Court.

September 11, 2021
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  • Leila Fadel
<strong>Left:</strong> Upper West Side; <strong>Right:</strong> Harlem. Summer 2002

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  • National

The Summer After 9/11, A Photographer Documents A City's Healing

Photographer Lucas Foglia was 19 during the summer of 2002 when he made portraits NYC residents.

September 11, 2021
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  • Lucas Foglia and
  • Michele Abercrombie
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