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News Articles: Georgia

Special prosecutor Nathan Wade listens during a motions hearing for former President Donald Trump's election interference case, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 in Atlanta.

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Georgia judge sets a hearing on misconduct allegations against Fani Willis in Trump election case

The judge presiding over the Georgia prosecution of former President Donald Trump and others for efforts to overturn the 2020 election has set a hearing on a motion alleging District Attorney Fani Willis has been romantically involved with a special prosecutor she hired for the case.

January 18, 2024
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Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum

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Atlanta Police say campaigns planned in search of ‘anarchists’ against training center

Deputy Chief Operating Officer LaChandra Burks told the finance committee that the frequency and intensity of the attacks in opposition to the training center – including a recent defacing of Manuel’s Tavern – have contributed to an increase in the estimated cost for the training center from $90 million to $109.6 million, according to a news release.

January 18, 2024
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  • Dyana Bagby
The $100 million comes as Spelman marks 100 years since its official naming in 1924.

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Atlanta's Spelman College receives historic $100 million donation

The donation is from businesswoman and philanthropist Ronda Stryker and her husband, William Johnston, Chairman of Greenleaf Trust.

January 18, 2024
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  • Collin Kelley
Taniesa Taylor, the owner of Locs, Twists, Braids and Crochets in Columbus, Georgia styles Shawnitra Williams’ hair recently. 01/11/2024 Mike Haskey mhaskey@ledger-enquirer.com

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Four Georgia Black women sue for millions after study finds health impacts of hair relaxers

Four Georgia Black women filed separate lawsuits against major chemical hair relaxer manufacturers after exposure to the products was linked to cancer and uterine fibroids.

January 18, 2024
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  • Brittany McGee
Sandy Springs Fire Chief Keith Sanders, left, said firefighters and their vehicles were being kept out of service by non-emergency service calls.

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Sandy Springs Fire Department proposes charging businesses for non-emergency services

Sanders said the fire department gets 50 to 70 calls a year for lift assists, which keep firefighters and vehicles out of service for a half hour or more.

January 18, 2024
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  • Bob Pepalis
a "No Turn On Red" road sign

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GPB morning headlines for January 18, 2024

Georgia's Department of Human Services Commissioner says the state has ended the foster child placement process known as hotelling.

Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is responding to requests from lawmakers to remove the QR codes from ballots. 

Atlanta is joining a growing list of cities considering banning drivers from turning right on a red light, at least in two of the city's most walkable neighborhoods.

January 18, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
A long-tailed macaque kept for use in clinical research sits in a cage, May 23, 2020, in Saraburi Province, north of Bangkok. Some residents and an animal rights group on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, protested plans to build a $400 million facility in the southwest Georgia town of Bainbridge to breed long-tailed macaques for medical research.

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Plan for $400 million monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia draws protest

Some local residents and an animal-rights group are protesting plans for a monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia. Opponents are urging the Bainbridge City Council to block plans by a company called Safer Human Medicine.

January 18, 2024
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Law enforcement surrounds the entrance of Atrium Health Navicent in Macon, Ga. on Jan. 17, 2024. It is the only American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma verified Level I trauma center in middle Georgia

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One dead after Macon hospital standoff

Overnight in Macon, a man fired a gun inside the city’s largest hospital and barricaded himself in a restroom, holding law enforcement off for hours before taking his own life.

January 18, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger

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Raffensperger: No time to take QR codes off Georgia ballots this year

There isn’t time to remove QR codes from paper ballots in Georgia, as Republican legislative leaders have proposed, before this year’s elections, GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Wednesday.

January 18, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
June O'neal yells an offer of cold weather shelter toward a homeless encampment by the Ocmulgee River in Macon.

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In Macon, communities struggle to bring the unhoused in from the cold

June O'Neal leads the local coalition of homeless service providers. But sometimes the offer of those needed services isn't heeded.

January 17, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Commissioner Candice Broce

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Georgia's 'hoteling' of foster children was significantly reduced in 2023

Department of Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce gave legislators an update on a foster child placement process known as 'hoteling' during a budget hearing on Wednesday. 

January 17, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis

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Georgia Today: Voting machine court challenge fails; Foster child placement; 'Right turn on red'

On the Wednesday January 17th edition of Georgia Today: A challenge to Georgia's use of electronic voting machines fails; The state ends the foster child placement process known as hotelling; And could Atlanta be the latest city to ban turning right at a red light?

January 17, 2024
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook

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Georgia Today: Voting machine court challenge fails; Foster child placement; 'Right turn on red'

On the Wednesday, Jan. 17 edition of Georgia Today: A challenge to Georgia's use of electronic voting machines fails; the state ends the foster child placement process known as hoteling; and could Atlanta be the latest city to ban turning right at a red light?

January 17, 2024
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
A person sits on Broadway, after New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that homeless people deemed to be in psychiatric crisis can be involuntarily hospitalized, in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 1, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

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GPB evening headlines for January 17, 2024

Georgia's Department of Human Services Commissioner says the state has ended the foster child placement process of "hotelling."

Advocates for the unhoused work, sometimes unsuccessfully, to get residents into shelter during very cold weather like this week's.

January 17, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Atlanta Braves' Ronald Acuña Jr. celebrates after scoring the winning run on an Ozzie Albies base hit during the 10th inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, in Atlanta. Acuña stole two bases in the game to become the first player in the majors to steal 70 bases and hit 40 home runs in a season.

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Braves sign Venezuelan teen Jose Perdomo, thanks to 'Acuña effect'

The Atlanta Braves earlier this week signed a 17-year-old amateur prospect from Venezuela for $5 million dollars. As the Braves recruit new players there, they may benefit from the so-called “Acuña effect.”

January 17, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
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