On the Monday, April 24 edition of Georgia Today: Augusta wants a new arena; the FDA may ban menthol cigarettes; and backyard chicken regulations in Northwest Georgia have some residents crying foul.
Monday on Political Rewind: The New York Times reported on testimony alleging Donald Trump took part in a discussion about plans to access sensitive election data in Coffee County. Plus, Gov. Brian Kemp will not attend the state GOP convention, another sign of his disapproval with the political party.
More women are serving in the U.S. military, and women are the fastest-growing group among U.S. veterans. The Veterans Administration is trying to meet their health needs, including pregnancy care.
The family of a man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail's psychiatric wing is calling for a U.S. Justice Department investigation of the facility. Nationally known civil rights attorney Ben Crump represents the family of Lashawn Thompson, who died in September, three months after being booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta
Koko Da Doll, an Atlanta woman who gained notice in a documentary about transgender Black women, was shot to death in Atlanta. Her sister Kilya Williams and other relatives said police told them the 35-year-old transgender woman appears to have been shot after leaving an apartment complex.
An amendment regulating backyard hens in the residential zone was passed by the Catoosa County Board of Commissioners, a decision that brought pledges to unseat the current board from the capacity crowd of Catoosa County chicken advocates.
At the sprawling array of laboratories and test facilities in the southeastern Idaho desert where the U.S. nuclear power industry was born more than 70 years ago, past, present and future are converging — even as the latest nuclear power plants begin to go online in Georgia.
A recent report finds that banning menthol and flavored cigarettes would eliminate disparities in lung cancer death rates between Black Americans and other racial groups within the next five years.
On the Friday April 21 edition of GeorgiaToday: Senator Jon Ossoff is investigating incarcerations; the future of bats may lie here in Georgia; tomorrow is Record Store Day
A new $30 million mixed-income housing development opened in Columbus Tuesday that is the first phase of revitalizing the Louis T. Chase Homes and will provide access to preventive healthcare services for its residents.
DeKalb County Medical Examiner released the official autopsy report for Manuel Paez Terán, the activist killed during a law enforcement raid in the South Atlanta forest. Attorneys for the family said they need the whole story.
