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News Articles: Floyd County

Georgia Power hosted company and project leaders, as well as state and local elected officials, for a groundbreaking ceremony at the BESS location in Floyd County on April 18, 2025. Georgia Power

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Georgia Power builds four new battery storage facilities. One’s in Bibb County.

Construction is underway at four new battery energy storage system sites located across Georgia, including one in Bibb County, totaling 765 megawatts of power.

May 09, 2025
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  • Margaret Walker and
  • The Telegraph
Jamie Barton

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Meet Jamie Barton, Georgia’s international opera star with roots in Floyd County

She crosses the globe for her career, but she is still close with her family and community in the Northwest Georgia valley where she grew up.

October 23, 2024
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  • Sarah Zaslaw
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Unusual haul of fish illegally caught in Georgia given to family in need, officials say

An unusual wildlife seizure didn’t go to waste when Georgia wildlife officials gave the catch to a local family in need.

December 12, 2023
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  • Makiya Seminera
This is a screenshot of drone video captured in Summerville, Georgia that shows some of the damage to the community. Gov. Brian Kemp declared a State of Emergency in Chattooga and Floyd Counties over the Labor Day weekend.

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Flood threat continued in Georgia, other states over Labor Day weekend

Parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were under flash flood watches through Monday evening. Among the hardest-hit areas in this weekend's storm was northwest Georgia.

September 06, 2022
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  • Associated Press
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A ‘Christmas to remember.’ 6 siblings reunited through surprise adoption by Columbus couple

This past spring, the Turbevilles learned the juvenile court in Floyd County had terminated the parental rights of the biological mother and fathers for the six oldest siblings, allowing them to start the adoption process.

December 24, 2021
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  • Associated Press
In this Aug. 3, 2020, file photo, Paul Adamus, 7, waits at the bus stop for the first day of 2020-2021 school year in Dallas, Ga.

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Political Rewind: Déjà Vu As Schools Return Amid Rising Cases, Without State Guidance

Monday on Political Rewind: Officials continue to resist establishing a statewide procedure for mitigating the possible spread of COVID-19 in schools. Cases are rising in some systems in the first week of classes. In Atlanta, public schools will begin offering vaccines to middle and high school students next week.

August 09, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo Trump supporters gather on the Washington Monument grounds in advance of a rally in Washington. Both within and outside the walls of the Capitol, banners and symbols of white supremacy and anti-government extremism were displayed as an insurrectionist mob swarmed the U.S. Capitol.

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Georgia Today: What's Behind An Alleged White Supremacist Conspiracy In Floyd County?

The deadly Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol building by a pro-Trump mob was a glimpse into what many experts have long warned: Homegrown extremism is on the rise across the U.S. On Georgia Today, guest Chris Joyner from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution speaks on what’s known about violent white supremacist groups operating in Georgia.

April 30, 2021
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  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like.

Floyd County Woman Preliminarily Tests Positive For Coronavirus

UPDATE: The state health department updated this case as a Polk County woman and confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis. The Georgia Department of Public Health...

March 08, 2020
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  • Taylor Gantt
More than 500 Georgia jail inmates have died over the last 10 years.

Mental Illness Factored Into 1 In 10 Georgia Jail Deaths Since 2008

The United States Department of Justice estimates nearly two-thirds of all jail inmates have mental health problems. In Georgia, a new investigation...

May 21, 2018
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By:
  • Leighton Rowell and
  • Adam Ragusea

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