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 In this photo provided by Japan Coast Guard, debris believed to be from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft is seen off the coast of Yakushima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. A crew member who was recovered from the ocean after a U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying six people crashed Wednesday off southern Japan has been pronounced dead, coast guard officials said.

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Air Force identifies the eight US crew lost in Osprey crash in Japan

Air Force Special Operations Command has identified the eight service members lost when their Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan last week. The crew ranged in ages from 24 to 36 years old and came from eight states, including U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jake M. Turnage, 25, of Kennesaw, Georgia.

December 05, 2023
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The Prince Hall Masonic Lodge in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn neighborhood was built in 1937 and is being restored with funding from the Trust for Public Land. and other sources

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Perspectives in Architecture: Renewing historic landmarks and civil rights conversations

The Prince Hall Masonic Lodge in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn Historic District housed the headquarters for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) that included Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s office from 1963 to his assassination in 1968. The building is now being restored. 

December 05, 2023
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  • Melody Harclerode
H. Rap Brown speaking at a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee news conference.

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'Radical' unpacks the murder conviction of Imam Jamil Al-Amin

A new podcast, Radical, explores the lesser-known reasons why Imam Jamil was convicted for the murder of a sheriff's deputy in Atlanta in March 2000.

December 05, 2023
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  • Peter Biello
The gazebo and band shell at Glover Park in Marietta Square in a 2017 photo.

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Love holiday movies? Spot these Georgia locations in 'Dashing Through the Snow' and 6 more

From the Atlanta skyline to Dahlonega's town square and the St. Simons Lighthouse, Georgia landmarks star in a long list of holiday productions.

December 05, 2023
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  • GPB Newsroom
Unit 3’s reactor and cooling tower stand at Georgia Power Co.'s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant on Jan. 20, 2023, in Waynesboro, Ga. Company officials announced Wednesday, May 24, 2023, that Unit 3, one of two new reactors at the site, has reached commercial operation after years of delays and billions in cost overruns.

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GPB morning headlines for December 5, 2023

State utility regulators began three-days of public hearings Monday on how much Georgia Power customers should pay for cost overruns on long-delayed and over-budget nuclear reactors at the company's Plant Vogtle.

A city-funded mental health care initiative in Macon could be a model for other communities in Georgia.

Governor Brian Kemp announced that Republican leaders will file legislation during the special session to further reduce state income tax. 

December 05, 2023
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry speaks during a press event at the construction site of Vogtle Units 3 and 4 at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, Friday, March 22, 2019 in Waynesboro, Ga. Georgia Power Co.’s parent company announced more cost overruns and schedule delays to the project on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022.

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Georgia Power again presses case for customer rate hike to pay for bloated Plant Vogtle expansion

State regulators heard familiar complaints on Monday about Georgia Power customers paying more for electricity after years of being saddled with runaway expansion costs of the company's Plant Vogtle expansion.

December 05, 2023
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  • Stanley Dunlap

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Georgia Today: New congressional maps; Georgia Power price hearings; TIME Mag's Person of the Year

On the Monday, Dec. 4 edition of Georgia Today: Republicans push forward their new congressional maps; public hearings begin on Georgia Power's price hike, which is meant to fund the state's nuclear reactors; and a Georgia resident is shortlisted for Time Magazine's 2023 Person of the Year.

December 04, 2023
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  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, flanked by Republican lawmakers, speaks Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. Kemp and Republican legislators want to make a further cut to Georgia's state income tax rate in the 2024 legislative session.

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GPB evening headlines for December 4, 2023

Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia's top Republican leaders want to speed up an already-planned cut in the state income tax rate.

The first update in 11 years of the US Department of Agriculture's "Plant Heartiness Zones" shows half the state getting warmer.

The PSC began three-days of public hearings on how much Georgia Power customers should pay for cost overruns at Plant Vogtle.

December 04, 2023
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  • GPB News Radio
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Here's how to access no-cost counseling and mental health wellness programs in Macon

The Macon Mental Health Matters initiative includes mental health counseling for both individuals and families, financial counseling, conflict resolution and non-traditional mental health activities like yoga, pop-up gyms, training, and parenting. These services are offered in the community at no cost to the client. And they increase the opportunity for access to care.

December 04, 2023
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Four Black Democrats vote against a proposed congressional redistricting plan in a Georgia Senate committee, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023 at the state Capitol in Atlanta. Opponents of the plan argue it illegally breaks up a majority nonwhite district currently represented by Democratic U.S. Rep Lucy McBath.

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In GOP's proposed Georgia congressional map, a key question is which voters are legally protected

Georgia Republicans are advancing a proposed congressional map that maintains their party's 9-5 majority in the state's congressional delegation. A Senate committee voted 7- 4 along party lines on Monday to send the map to the state Senate for more debate.

December 04, 2023
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An Apalachicola Red Horse “Sucker” stunned in the shock boat as it is caught by Dr. Steve Sammons near the Waveshaper in Columbus, Ga. on Nov. 29, 2023.

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Dozens of ‘suckers’ but no Shoal Bass. What fish tell us about the Chattahoochee River

Fish sampling is essential to understanding the health of the river but is seldom done in this stretch of the Chattahoochee near Columbus, Ga.

December 04, 2023
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  • Kala Hunter
Medical student Emily Hartley from Reynolds talks to her neighbors at the ribbon cutting for the Mercer Medicine clinic in Taylor County.

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After sitting empty for over a decade, a health clinic in Taylor County is opened again with help

 It’s the latest clinic to open as part of the Mercer University School of Medicine's efforts to strengthen rural health care. 

December 04, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, flanked by Republican lawmakers, speaks Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. Kemp and Republican legislators want to make a further cut to Georgia's state income tax rate in the 2024 legislative session.

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Georgia's governor and top Republican lawmakers say they want to speed up state income tax cut

Georgia's Republican governor and legislative leaders want to speed up an already-planned cut in the state income tax rate. Gov. Brian Kemp, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and House Speaker Jon Burns said Monday that they support a plan to create a flat income tax rate of 5.39% starting Jan. 1.

December 04, 2023
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Wide exterior shot of the Georgia state capitol

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GPB morning headlines for December 4, 2023

A proposed redraw of Georgia’s Congressional districts would add more majority black districts but keep the existing split of Republicans and Democrats.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an updated map showing new zones for plant hardiness.

With help from the Mercer University School of Medicine, a once vacant doctors office in Taylor County is now open again and taking patients.

December 04, 2023
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  • GPB News Radio
A red-headed Woodpecker like the one featured in the logo for Birds Georgia, which announced a name change from Georgia Audubon on Nov. 30

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Bird enthusiasts at Georgia Audubon distance themselves from enslaver’s name with new rebrand

The organization will be rebranding to “Birds Georgia,” but their goal of defending wild birds and their habitats will remain.

December 04, 2023
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  • Ross Williams
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