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The front of the DeKalb County Crisis Center

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DeKalb County asks voters to help fund mental health crisis center

Part of the proposed special purpose local option sales tax — or SPLOST— will help the DeKalb County Regional Crisis Center meet the growing demand for access to mental health crisis intervention and stabilization services, Commissioner Ted Terry said. 

August 28, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. Meadows is trying to avoid having to testify before a Georgia special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the state's 2020 election. A lawyer for Meadows on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, argued in a court filing in South Carolina that Meadows shouldn't have to go to Atlanta to testify.

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Trump's top aide Meadows testifies at hearing on bid to move Georgia election case to federal court

Two of former President Donald Trump's lawyers are in an Atlanta courtroom listening in as his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows takes the witness stand. Meadows has a hearing over whether he should be allowed to fight a Georgia indictment accusing him of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election in federal court rather than state court.

August 28, 2023
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  • Associated Press
The cover of the book "King: A Life" by Jonathan Eig is shown.

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60 years since his landmark 'I Have a Dream' speech, a new biography takes fresh look at King

A newly published biography about one of history’s most towering figures from Georgia is being described as the first major biography of the Revered Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior in decades.

August 28, 2023
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  • Orlando Montoya
Tropical Storm Idalia is currently forecast to make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane along the Florida Big Bend on the morning of August 30, 2023. Meteorologists expect it will then weaken to a Category 1 hurricane as the center moves into far southeast Georgia later that evening.

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Idalia is coming. Here's how the storm might impact Georgia

Tropical Storm Idalia is currently forecast to make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane along the Florida Big Bend on Wednesday morning before moving across South Georgia.

August 28, 2023
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  • GPB News Staff
Former President Donald Trump steps off his plane as he arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in Atlanta.

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Trump and 18 others charged in the Georgia election case are scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 6

Former President Donald Trump and the 18 people indicted along with him in Georgia are scheduled to be arraigned next week on charges they participated in a wide-ranging illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

August 28, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Marc Tyler Nobleman is pictured in this posed photo.

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Forsyth County schools cancel talks after author says the word 'gay' to elementary school students

Marc Nobleman came to Forsyth County schools to give an inspirational talk to elementary school students about the origins of the superhero Batman. He left with a lesson on the county's policies about the word "gay."

August 28, 2023
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  • Orlando Montoya
Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Fla. Lawyers for Trump are due back in court Monday, Aug. 28, as a federal judge considers radically conflicting proposals for a trial date in the case accusing him of working to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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March 4 trial date set for Trump in federal case charging him with plotting to overturn election

A judge has set a March 4 trial date for Donald Trump in the federal case in Washington charging the former president with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

August 28, 2023
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  • Associated Press
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Georgia Today: Trump arraignment date set; Storm coming to South GA; 'I Have A Dream' anniversary

On the Monday, Aug. 28 edition of Georgia Today: Former President Donald Trump and 18 others accused of election fraud conspiracy now have an arraignment date; South Georgians prepare for the arrival of a powerful storm; and on the anniversary of the "I Have A Dream" speech, we hear about a new biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

August 28, 2023
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. A federal judge in Atlanta is set to hear arguments Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, on whether Mark Meadows should be allowed to fight the Georgia indictment accusing him of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election in federal court rather than in a state court.

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Judge to hear arguments on Mark Meadows' request to move Georgia election case to federal court

A federal judge in Atlanta is set to hear arguments Monday on whether Mark Meadows should be allowed to fight the Georgia indictment accusing him of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election in federal court rather than in a state court.

August 28, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. Meadows is trying to avoid having to testify before a Georgia special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the state's 2020 election. A lawyer for Meadows on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, argued in a court filing in South Carolina that Meadows shouldn't have to go to Atlanta to testify.

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GPB morning headlines for August 28, 2023

Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows is one of several defendants charged with trying to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election. Meadows is seeking to move his charges from state to federal court.

State agriculture officials say Savannah is the site of the first known nest in the United States of the invasive yellow-legged hornet.

Some Georgia families may qualify for assistance with their water bills through the federally funded Low Income Household Water Assistance Program.

August 28, 2023
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  • GPB News Radio
Georgia Mountain Fair

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Welcome to Weekends, an exciting update from GPB News

Weekends is a weekly dispatch packed with top stories from around the state, including politics, health, economy, sports, arts, events and more. 

 

August 26, 2023
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Donald Trump is shown in a mugshot photo.

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GPB evening headlines for August 25, 2023

All nineteen people indicted in Georgia's illegal election interference case have turned themselves in at the Fulton County Jail.

Three high school students were hospitalized in Augusta yesterday after suffering from heat-related illnesses at a track meet.

Savannah city council members have chosen the name of a formerly enslaved Union Army nurse for one its town squares.

August 25, 2023
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  • GPB News Radio
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Georgia Today: Donald Trump surrenders in Atlanta; State unemployment declines; Savannah town square

On the Friday, Aug. 25 edition of Georgia Today: Former President Donald Trump surrendered to authorities in Fulton County yesterday after being indicted last week; Georgia reports a decline in unemployment; and a controversial town square in Savannah finally has a new name.

 

August 25, 2023
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Donald Trump is shown in a mugshot photo.

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Historian on Trump: 'The most serious indictment in the history of the United States'

American University history professor Allan Lichtman talks about the ex-presidential mugshot and how Donald Trump's indictment won't affect his prediction for who'll be the next president.

August 25, 2023
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  • Orlando Montoya
Sen. Warnock pictured with Savannah Head Start Program leaders.

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  • Politics

Taxpayer dollars at work: What your U.S. senators from Georgia are doing the week ending Aug. 25

This week, Ossoff and Warnock focused on providing counseling and mental health services to Georgia military families; delivering resources to improve early childhood education across Northwest Georgia; previewing new legislation improving workforce shortages in childcare; and upgrading Georgia’s Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base.

August 25, 2023
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  • Ambria Burton
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