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News Articles: Georgia

Part of the roof at Mary Mac’s Team Room collapsed during heavy rain in Atlanta.

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  • Business

Roof partially collapses at Mary Mac’s Tea Room

The roof of Mary Mac’s Tea Room partially collapsed overnight prompting a temporary closure of the famed Southern eatery.

March 06, 2024
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By:
  • Collin Kelley
A passenger wears a face mask to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as he waits for a Delta Airlines flight at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Feb. 18, 2021. Delta Air Lines said Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022, it will extend through 2023 the window for customers to rebook credits earned when they purchased but then canceled flights during the pandemic.

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  • News

Delta Air Lines is hiking checked-baggage fees 17% following similar moves by United and American

In case you needed yet another incentive to cram all your travel items into a carry-on, Delta Air Lines has just boosted the cost of your first checked bag by 17%.

March 06, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Okefenokee Swamp

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  • Environment

Okefenokee mine opponents, backed by feds, call for Georgia EPD to thwart Twin Pines dig

State regulators heard from dozens of conservationists and Okefenokee Swamp admirers who urged the state to reverse course on plans to allow an Alabama-based company to mine near the wildlife refuge.

March 06, 2024
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
Georgia State Capitol

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  • Politics

Georgia House panel OKs ’25 state budget

Georgia House budget writers approved a $36.1 billion fiscal 2025 state budget Tuesday that includes pay raises for teachers, state and university system employees and judges.

March 06, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
Georgia Supreme Court

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  • Politics

Georgia House GOP advances prosecutor oversight bill as Dems complain of political score-settling

A new disciplinary board could soon  begin investigating complaints against the state’s district attorneys and solicitors general under legislation passed by the Georgia General Assembly.

March 06, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
3490 Riverly Road

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  • Business

Buckhead estate sells for almost $13 million, breaks three-year record

Dorsey Alston, Realtors agent Shanna Smith closed on the record-breaking sale of a 12-acre Buckhead estate listed for $12,900,000.

March 06, 2024
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By:
  • Collin Kelley
With more than 400,000 acres of remote wilderness, the Okefenokee Swamp is among Georgia’s wildest places. It is home to some 200 species of birds and 50 reptiles, including American alligators and snowy egrets.

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GPB morning headlines for March 6, 2024

The Georgia Environmental Protection Division heard public comment Tuesday night from dozens of people concerned about a proposed strip mine near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Georgia.

Debates over district attorney oversight resurfaced in the legislature Tuesday.

How much Delta Airlines customers have to pay to check a bag just went up.

March 06, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
"This city has birthed a lot of pioneers, people that are pushing things," Andre 3000 said. "It's cool to be kind of running [expletive] for like the last 30 years."

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  • Music Features

Inhale. Exhale. Now let these scenes from Andre 3000's Atlanta homecoming wash over you

It's been nearly 10 years since Andre and his partner in Atlanta rap act OutKast, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, headlined a sold-out, three-night stand at Centennial Olympic Park — and two decades since the duo released Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, now the best-selling rap album of all time. 

March 05, 2024
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  • Sonia Murray
Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for March 5, 2024

A Georgia commission to discipline prosecutors now only needs Governor Brian Kemp's signature before it can begin operations.

Some Georgia voters who typically vote for Democrats are hoping to send President Joe Biden a message in next week's primary.

A Georgia company identified exactly how President Joe Biden’s voice was faked in a robo-call before the New Hampshire primary.

March 05, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio

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  • News

Georgia Today: Former superintendent arrested; Prosecutor commission; Columbus DA death hoax

On the Tuesday, March 5 edition of Georgia Today: A former South Georgia superintendent has been arrested; a Georgia commission to discipline and remove prosecutors is one step closer to reality; and the district attorney in Columbus has taken to social media to address rumors that he is dead.

March 05, 2024
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Architectural rendering of C&H Precision's future development in Richmond Hill

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  • Business

Southeast Georgia-based gun parts company to expand, adding to Bryan County's economic development

C&H Precision expects to add about 70 new jobs.

March 05, 2024
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Henry County deputy Daniel D. Podsiadly pictured to the right of Democratic Senator Tonya Anderson and Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett

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  • Politics

Georgia House to consider bills to toughen penalties for fentanyl distribution

The Georgia House is expected to consider criminal justice legislation designed to toughen penalties for people who sell fentanyl that causes an overdose and a bill that gives police officers more pay while recovering from severe injuries sustained on the job.

March 05, 2024
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Pills

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  • Health Care

Who wants the U.S. Supreme Court to limit abortion pill access? Here’s the list.

Anti-abortion groups, attorneys general from 25 states and more than 140 members of Congress have signed on to dozens of briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court during the past two weeks, encouraging the justices to revert use and prescribing of the medication abortion pill mifepristone to what was in place prior to 2016.

March 05, 2024
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  • Jennifer Shutt
Diego Ibarra's preliminary hearing on felony charges stemming from what law enforcement officers say was a fake green card will take place at the Bootle Federal Courthouse in Macon Thursday.

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  • News

GPB morning headlines for March 5, 2024

The brother of a man charged with murder in the homicide of Athens nursing student Laken Riley had his own day in federal court Monday.

A North Atlantic Right Whale calf has died.

A firearm parts manufacturer in southeast Georgia's Bryan County broke ground Monday on a facility it says will roughly triple the company's local workforce.

March 05, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
U.S. Rep. and state Democratic Party Chair Nikema Williams speaks to reporters on Monday, March 4, 2024, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. Hundreds of candidates are signing up to run for state and federal offices during the qualifying period, which runs through Friday, March 8, 2024.

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  • Politics

'Lawmakers': Day 29 features light work, qualifying for 2024 election season

Lawmakers came back to the Capitol on Monday after a late Crossover Day night. 

March 04, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis ,
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