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GPB evening headlines for April 3, 2024

Spelman College extends the deadline for enrollment deposits. 

Norfolk Southern derailment last year in eastern Ohio was not declared a public health emergency.

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GPB morning headlines for April 3, 2024

Powerful thunderstorms moved across Georgia over night and into this morning. 

Kaiser Permanente is investing nearly $500,000 to support the work of Resilient Georgia and its Mental Health Workforce Accelerator program.

Over the last year, over 500,000 adults and kids in Georgia have lost their Medicaid coverage during a nationwide check of program eligibility, dubbed Medicaid unwinding. 

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GPB evening headlines for April 2, 2024

Over the last year, more than a half-million Georgians have lost their Medicaid coverage in a nationwide review of program eligibility.

A line of strong thunderstorms is expected to roll into Georgia tonight, starting in Northwest Georgia, with damaging winds possible.

Warmer spring weather also brings more snakes slithering around Georgia.  But most of them you'll encounter are not dangerous.

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GPB morning headlines for April 2, 2024

Georgia regulators have found in favor of a small railroad in an eminent domain dispute between the company and landowners in rural Hancock County.

The Port of Brunswick is expected to handle a wave of diverted shipments from the Port of Baltimore, where terminal traffic is reduced because of last week's bridge collapse.

New funding will help reopen the hospital in Cuthbert. 

April 02, 2024
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A view of the Dali cargo vessel which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., March 26, 2024. REUTERS/Julia Nikhinson

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GPB evening headlines for April 1, 2024

The Port of Brunswick is expected to handle a wave of new shipments from the Port of Baltimore after last week's bridge collapse.

A new study finds that human-caused climate change is threatening thousands of archaeological sites along Georgia's coastline.

It'll be a little more expensive to go shopping in Augusta-Richmond County starting today because of a voter-approved sales tax.

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GPB morning headlines for April 1, 2024

A new study finds that human-caused climate change is jeopardizing thousands of archeological sites in coastal Georgia.

Georgians have until April 2, 2024 to make sure their homes, businesses and neighborhoods are accurately represented on a map of areas that lack high-speed Internet access.

The Macon Bibb County Sheriff’s office is asking people who own doorbell cameras and other surveillance systems to join a new program giving officers easier access to the footage.

April 01, 2024
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GPB evening headlines for March 29, 2024

State lawmakers stayed up past midnight last night to pass bills and reject others on the last day of this year's General Assembly.

The legislature handed Governor Brian Kemp many of his top economic priorities.  Many of the Senate's "culture war" bills stalled.

The sheriff's department in Macon-Bibb County wants residents with doorbell cameras to join a program to help share the footage.

March 29, 2024
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023 in Waco, Texas. Former U.S. president Donald Trump attended and spoke at his first rally since announcing his 2024 presidential campaign. Today in Waco also marks the 30 year anniversary of the weeks deadly standoff involving Branch Davidians and federal law enforcement. 82 Davidians were killed, and four agents left dead. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

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GPB evening headlines for March 28, 2024

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump told a Georgia court the charges against him are based on protected political speech.

Hyundai is re-evaluating its decision to produce only electric-only vehicles at its plant under construction in Southeast Georgia.

Harm reduction advocates celebrate the 10-year anniversary of a law encouraging people to call for help during a drug overdose.

March 28, 2024
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GPB morning headlines for March 28, 2024

Today is the last day of Georgia's two-year legislative session.

The state Senate has given final passage to a bill that would ban what it calls quote "foreign adversaries" from buying certain pieces of property.

Georgia Power and state regulators have reached a tentative agreement on Georgia Power’s request to update its integrated resource plan, or IRP, and ramp up energy production in the face of new demand from things like data centers and electric vehicle manufacture.

March 28, 2024
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People rally to protest the Trump administration's reported transgender proposal to narrow the definition of gender to male or female at birth, in Los Angeles, California, United States, October 22, 2018. Photo by Lucy Nicholson/REUTERS

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GPB evening headlines for March 27, 2024

Georgia's Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the state's public schools.

Georgia Power and state regulators have reached a deal on the company's request to ramp up energy production with fossil fuels.

Communities across Georgia soon will decide how to spend their share of millions of dollars from a massive opioid settlement

March 27, 2024
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GPB evening headlines for March 27, 2024

Enrollment in the federal marketplace continues to grow nationally.

The Georgia Senate has passed a controversial bill that would place restrictions on LGBTQ students.

The City of Roswell is making a bid for two professional soccer teams.

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GPB morning headlines for March 27, 2024

The three white men convicted of murder and hate crimes in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year old Black man, are asking an appeals court Wednesday to throw out their hate crimes conviction. 

The Georgia Senate has passed a controversial bill that could place restrictions on LGBTQ students.

The Georgia Senate passed their version of the fiscal year 2025 budget.

The Association of County Commissioners of Georgia is hosting elections for regional advisory councils this month. Those selected will recommend how best to spend their communities’ share of opioid settlement money.

March 27, 2024
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A helicopter flies over the scene of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 26, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ Reuters

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GPB evening headlines for March 26, 2024

The Georgia Ports Authority is reacting to a bridge collapse in Baltimore, pointing out major differences with a bridge in Savannah.

The state Senate has passed a $36 billion fiscal year 2025 state budget that includes state employee and teacher pay raises.

More Georgians are signing up for health insurance in the federal marketplace, in part because they were kicked off of Medicaid.

March 26, 2024
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GPB morning headlines for March 26, 2024

The Atlanta Veteran’s Affairs office has a new name honoring the late Georgia senator and veteran.

Georgia U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is demanding answers from the U.S. Postal Service about reported delays at a new processing and distribution center in Palmetto, southwest of Atlanta.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens announced new transportation projects in his State of the City address Monday.

March 26, 2024
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More than 1,000 people age 50 or older took one of four versions of the SAGE test.

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GPB morning headlines for March 25, 2024

A new report from the Alzheimer’s Association estimates 70% of family caregivers are stressed by coordinating care for someone with dementia. In Georgia, that’s about 374,000 family caregivers.

Georgia lawmakers are considering a new effort to block a proposed titanium mine near the Okefenokee Swamp.

Researchers from Emory and Georgia Tech are working together on a device that would help prevent heat related injuries.

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