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Efforts to help Georgia’s homeless population advanced by local governments, volunteers

Thousands gather each year in Georgia and nationwide during the last 10 days of January to conduct the annual homelessness census that guides legislative, funding and support efforts. The Point-in-Time headcount is the most comprehensive census for sheltered and unsheltered individuals.

March 18, 2024
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  • Adalei Stevens
Laken Riley

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Georgia Today: Father of Laken Riley speaks; Savannah interstate flyover; Freezing temps in Georgia

On the Monday, March 18 edition of Georgia Today: The father of Laken Riley, the nursing student killed on the UGA campus last month, makes a public statement; a push to remove an interstate flyover in Savannah picks up steam; and a day before the start of spring, parts of Georgia are NOT done with freezing temperatures.

March 18, 2024
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Savannah College of Art and Design

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SCAD generated $1.3 billion in economic impact for Georgia in 2023

The Savannah College of Art and Design’s (SCAD) economic impact on Georgia has reached an all-time high, according to a study conducted by Tripp Umbach, a national consulting firm for not-for-profit, arts, and tourism sectors.

March 18, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
The Interstate 16 flyover crosses Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Savannah, exiting onto nearby Montgomery Street.

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GPB morning headlines for March 18, 2024

A push to remove an interstate flyover from part of downtown Savannah is picking up steam thanks to new federal funding.

Georgia lawmakers have passed legislation that pauses a state sales tax that's meant to attract data centers to the state.

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff held a roundtable with veterans in Smyrna on Friday to discuss his inquiry into a scam targeting veterans.

March 18, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Clyde and Renee Smith outside their Atlanta home on Feb. 5, 2021.

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One of the first Georgians with COVID-19, now 84, discusses vaccines, reinfection

Atlanta residents Renee and Clyde Smith were among the first Americans to contract the virus in February of 2020 while passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. The couple, now 84 years old, spent three weeks quarantining in Japan. 

March 15, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
 Special prosecutor Nathan Wade looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump's administration entered the Fulton County district attorney's race Friday, March 8, 2024, as the current officeholder, Fani Willis, awaits a judge's decision on whether she will be removed from the Georgia election interference case against the former president because of a relationship with Wade.

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Georgia Today: Special prosecutor resigns; Spa shootings anniversary; Savannah St. Patty's Parade

On the Friday, March 15 edition of Georgia Today: The special prosecutor resigns in the Georgia election interference case; Asian American legislators remember Atlanta spa shootings victims; and this Savannah celebrates the 200th anniversary of one of the country's most famous St. Patrick's Day parades.

March 15, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Jake Cook
 Special prosecutor Nathan Wade looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A progressive Democrat and a Republican who briefly worked in Donald Trump's administration entered the Fulton County district attorney's race Friday, March 8, 2024, as the current officeholder, Fani Willis, awaits a judge's decision on whether she will be removed from the Georgia election interference case against the former president because of a relationship with Wade.

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Prosecutor leaves Georgia election case against Trump after relationship with district attorney

A special prosecutor who had a romantic relationship with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has withdrawn from the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump. A judge had ruled Willis or special prosecutor Nathan Wade had to leave the case for it to move forward.

March 15, 2024
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  • Associated Press
LGBTQ+ rights supporters rally in the hallway outside an Iowa House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. The rights of LGBTQ+ people continue to be in flux across the U.S. with a new flurry of developments.

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Things to know about developments impacting LGBTQ+ rights across the US

The rights of LGBTQ+ people continue to be in flux across the U.S. with a new flurry of developments.

March 15, 2024
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  • Associated Press and
  • GPB News Staff
The June 2020 primary elections, delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, were chaotic as counties grappled with fewer poll workers and places to vote as more people cast mail-in absentee ballots.

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GPB News to focus on voters' voices in 2024 election coverage

To help cover the 2024 election, GPB News will be working with America Amplified an organization partnering with public media newsrooms across the nation to more deeply engage the communities we serve.

March 15, 2024
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  • Josephine Bennett
District Attorney for Fulton County, Fani Willis speaks during an Associated Press interview on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Atlanta.

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GPB evening headlines for March 15, 2024

The District Attorney leading Georgia's election interference case either has to step down or remove a special prosecutor from it.

The state Senate is backing major reforms to Georgia's contentious regulations on construction for hospital and medical services.

Saturday marks the third anniversary of a series of Atlanta-area spa shootings that killed eight people, six of them Asian women.

March 15, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Brandon Carter, far left, begins a historical tour in downtown Savannah near the site of the now-gone St. John the Baptist Church, where Catholic Bishop John England ushered in the city's first public St. Patrick's Day parade on March 17, 1824.

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  • History

A blast from St. Patrick's Day past: Savannah tour guide tells story of city's inaugural 1824 parade

200 years later, tour guide Brandon Carter retraces the origins of Savannah's popular St. Patrick's Day parade.

March 15, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
Sen. Jon Ossoff

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U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff introduces legislation to protect election workers, polling places from threats

This week in Congress, Sen. Jon Ossoff introduced legislation that would prevent acts of violence and threats against election workers and at poll places after Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman were threatened after the 2020 election.

March 15, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
The APD Narcotics Unit called the 580 pounds of marijuana and other drugs a ‘significant seizure.”

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‘Extremely large’ drug bust in Buckhead nets 580 pounds of pot valued at $2 million

The Atlanta Police Department Narcotics Unit made an “extremely large marijuana bust” with 580 pounds found inside a Buckhead apartment.

March 15, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee presides over a hearing is to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta.

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Fulton County DA Fani Willis must step aside or remove special prosecutor in Trump case, judge says

The judge in the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others says that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis must step aside from the case or remove the special prosecutor with whom she had a romantic relationship before case can proceed.

March 15, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Macon-Bibb County installed a headstone near the entrance of Rose Hill Cemetery to honor deceased people whose cremains have for years been unclaimed and stored in county archives. A ceremony to scatter the ashes in a grassy plot by the headstone is set for late March.

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Hundreds of unclaimed human cremains to be scattered in upcoming ceremony at Rose Hill Cemetery

Macon-Bibb County has erected a headstone and plans to scatter the unclaimed ashes.

March 15, 2024
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  • Laura Corley
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