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Fork in the Road Podcast - Southern Drawl Cotton

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GPB evening headlines for June 7, 2024

The Athens-Clarke County manager says his resignation has nothing to do with a recent heating-up of rhetoric in local politics.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has new guidelines on medication to prevent sexually transmitted infections. 

A wet spring has delayed the planting season for the state's cotton crops. But cotton experts urge producers not to rush planting.

June 07, 2024
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Voting machines

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What to know about early voting in Georgia's June 18 runoff election

When can you vote early in Georgia's primary runoff election? Answer: It depends.

June 07, 2024
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  • GPB News Staff
Ashley Desensi, Technical Programs Specialist for the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper taking samples of E.Coli bacteria at the wastewater treatment plant outfall in Chattahoochee River on June 4, 2024. Chattahoochee Riverkeeper

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Unsafe levels of bacteria in Chattahoochee River from Phenix City plant, watchdog says

The Phenix City wastewater treatment plant is discharging significantly more E. coli bacteria into the Chattahoochee River than the facility is permitted to, a river watchdog group has alleged.

June 07, 2024
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  • Kala Hunter
The New Manchester Mill Ruins in Sweetwater Creek State Park, which can be seen in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” (Photo courtesy Pineapple Public Relations). Credit: Photo courtesy Pineapple Public Relations

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Nature in Cinema: a movie tour through Georgia’s parks

The film industry in Georgia has grown exponentially over the past few decades, and so much of the state’s beautiful scenery can be found in some of Hollywood’s biggest films and television shows. Keep scrolling for a Georgia movie tour through some of the projects that have put the state’s natural beauty on the big screen.

June 07, 2024
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  • Sammie Purcell
Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling delivers a pitch at Fenway Park in 2006.

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Savannah Bananas to play at Fenway Park on Saturday, in team's first game at famed Boston ballpark

The sold-out matchup will be live-streamed, with first pitch set for 7 p.m.

June 07, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
A red mangrove tree is shown near Cumberland Island, Georgia.

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Tropical mangrove trees discovered in Georgia as climate warms

They're not in large stands like they are in South Florida, but their presence in Georgia marks another milestone for a warming planet

June 07, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya
Sens. Raphael Warnock (center), Jon Ossoff (right), and Congresswoman Nikema Williams (left) at the 3rd Good Trouble Gala on June 3, 2024, in honor of the late lives of Congressman John Lewis and his wife, Lillian Miles Lewis. (Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock/Twitter)

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Taxpayer dollars at work: Warnock on helping new farmers, Ossoff on protecting contraception rights

For the week ending June 7, Warnock and Ossoff focused on protecting former Georgia U.S. Rep. John Lewis's legacy, introducing legislation to stop fentanyl trafficking at the southern border, protecting women's rights to contraception, and previewing new legislation that would help new farmers enter the profession.

June 07, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Gov. Brian Kemp driving the all-electric EV-9 at the West Point manufacturing facility on May 30, 2024. Kia Georgia

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Kia at West Point just made history, rolling out first-ever EV made in Georgia, an EV9 SUV

Just 10 months after Kia invested $200 million to expand operations at its plant in West Point, Georgia, the company released its EV9, the first electric vehicle manufactured in the state of Georgia.

June 07, 2024
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  • Kala Hunter
Cereal maker General Mills is facing a federal lawsuit from some of its Black employees who argue that the company's plant in Covington, Ga., has "embraced a racially hostile work environment." Here, a photo shows General Mills cereal products on display at a supermarket in Miami in May 2017.

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Black workers sue General Mills over alleged racial discrimination at a Georgia plant

The eight employees say that since the plant opened in 1988, many systems in place have benefited white workers more than Black staff. They claim that HR has ignored “egregious incidents of racism.”

June 07, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
The Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections concluded there was no way to be ready to hold Saturday voting for the June 18 runoff election.

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‘I hope never to be in this position again,' elections board member says of no Saturday voting

Amid a storm of problems, the Macon-Bibb Board of Elections could not meet a tight deadline as advanced voting runs June 10 through June 14.

June 07, 2024
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  • Liz Fabian

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On 80th anniversary of D-Day invasion, Biden and Macron honor WWII veterans at Normandy

Biden and dozens of U.S. lawmakers traveled to Normandy to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, the largest land, air and sea operation in military history. Georgia veteran among those honored at Omaha Beach.

June 07, 2024
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  • Ashley Murray
A fire heavily damaged the historic Kodak and Atlanta Eagle buildings in Midtown on June 6. (Photo by Dyana Bagby)

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Fire damages historic Atlanta Eagle and Kodak buildings in Midtown

Fire heavily damaged the Kodak building and the former site of the LGBTQ bar Atlanta Eagle on Thursday evening. Atlanta Fire Rescue officials got a call about 8 p.m. of a fire at the two historic buildings at the intersection of Ponce de Leon and Argonne avenues in Midtown.

June 07, 2024
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  • Dyana Bagby
Biden event

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Democrats urge voters to vote for Biden after contraception bill fails in Senate

Georgia lawmakers and Democratic advocates are urging voters to cast their ballots for President Biden in November after Republicans in Congress voted against a bill to codify the right to contraception.

June 07, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
Wide exterior shot of the Georgia state capitol

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GPB morning headlines for June 7, 2024

Republicans in the U.S. Senate have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception.

Scaffolding is going up this week around the state capitol as part of a nearly $400 million renovation project.

The Savannah Bananas will be traveling this weekend to one of baseball's most iconic ballparks.

June 07, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
The Trump Impeachment Trial - Day 11: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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Georgia Today: Election interference case halted; State capitol renovations; Tech students help cats

On the Thursday, June 6 edition of Georgia Today: The Georgia Court of Appeals put a pause on the election interference case against Donald Trump; the state capitol gets a $400 million face lift; and a student organization at Georgia Tech helps rehabilitate the school's feral cat population.

June 06, 2024
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  • Jake Cook
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