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News Articles: Georgia

Head Elf Waffles McSnowflake poses with the new pink pig train Penny.

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The Pink Pig rolls again! Iconic Atlanta holiday ride returns for the Georgia Festival of Trees

A holiday tradition will return this year to celebrate the season. The Georgia Festival of Trees opens later this month in Duluth with a very special guest.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
Brad Raffensperger

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  • News

What comes next after 159 counties certify the results of the election

All 159 Georgia counties certified the results of the 2024 election on Tuesday. 

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Florida Gulf Coast coach Karl Smesko talks during a news conference after an NCAA college basketball game in the Gulf Coast Showcase, Nov. 25, 2023, in Estero, Fla.

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  • Sports

Atlanta Dream hire longtime Florida Gulf Coast coach Karl Smesko to lead team

The Atlanta Dream have hired longtime Florida Gulf Coast coach Karl Smesko to lead the team. Smesko built Florida Gulf Coast into a perennial NCAA Tournament team and has the third highest winning percentage in women's college basketball.

November 13, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Athens musicians Itamar Zorman and Liza Stepanova

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Partners in music, partners in life: Meet Athens’ Itamar Zorman and Liza Stepanova

They’re an international pair who have become Americans and put down roots in Georgia. Pianist Liza Stepanova moved from Belarus to Berlin and then to the States. Violinist Itamar Zorman studied in Israel and Germany before landing in New York, where the two met in school. In addition to their individual careers and their juggling act as parents, they perform together as two-thirds of the Lysander Piano Trio.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Zaslaw
Members of Clubhouse Atlanta sit at a table and look at devices

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  • Mental Health

Funding peer support in communities can save lives, tax dollars in Georgia. Here's one example how

It can be hard to find therapy when you need it most for yourself or a loved one. But access to ongoing peer support can help keep folks out of behavioral health crisis.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against Donald Trump.

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  • Politics

After Trump’s election, future murky for Fulton RICO case against president and Georgia allies

The Georgia Court of Appeals’ scheduled Dec. 5 hearing on the latest development in the Fulton County racketeering indictments of President-elect Donald Trump and his allies remains on track despite the results of last week’s presidential election. But questions still linger about the case against Trump and his remaining 14 co-defendants.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Nikema Williams

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  • News

GPB morning headlines for November 13, 2024

Some Georgia Democrats are calling on their state party leader to step down after their losses in last week's elections.

All 26 of Georgia’s public universities and colleges added students this fall in the strongest enrollment surge in years.

An iconic Atlanta holiday tradition will return this year to celebrate the season.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • GPB News Radio
A flag with a logo of the Democratic Party flies over the office of the Racine County Democratic Party in Racine, Wisconsin, U.S., April 27, 2019. Picture taken April 27, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

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Georgia Today: GA Democrats call for new leader; BioLab partially reopens; Kroger opioid settlement

On the Tuesday, Nov. 12 edition of Georgia Today: Georgia Democrats call for a new state party leader; the BIolab plant in Conyers partially reopens; and Kroger agrees to a settlement for its role in the opioid crisis.

November 12, 2024
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jake Cook
A September 29 fire at BioLab in Conyers creates a chemical plume

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  • Politics

Taxpayer dollars at work: Questioning BioLab CEO, improving foster care, more school counselors

In recent weeks, Ossoff and Warnock have worked on questioning the BioLab Conyers CEO for answers on the plan to address safety concerns, introducing legislation to improve oversight in the foster care system, delivering funding to hire more school counselors in schools to support students' mental wellbeing, and provide clean energy upgrades to Georgia's ports.

 

November 12, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Nikema Williams

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GPB evening headlines for November 12, 2024

Some Georgia Democrats are calling on state party leader Nikema Williams to step down after their losses in last week's elections.

Today is the deadline for Georgia counties to certify election results. The process then goes to the Secretary of State and Governor.

The BioLab plant in Conyers has partially re-opened, six weeks after a massive chemical fire there. Residents are voicing concerns.

November 12, 2024
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By:
  • GPB News Radio
Defense attorneys Kaitlyn Beck shuffles papers in a folder as Jose Ibarra, center, accused of killing a nursing student, Laken Hope Riley, appears in court for a motion hearing on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, in Athens, Ga.

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Man waives jury trial in killing of Georgia nursing student

A man has waived his right to a jury trial in the killing of a Georgia nursing student. Jose Ibarra appeared in court Tuesday to make the request. He's been charged in the February killing of 22-year-old Laken Hope Riley.

November 12, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. Meadows is trying to avoid having to testify before a Georgia special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the state's 2020 election. A lawyer for Meadows on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, argued in a court filing in South Carolina that Meadows shouldn't have to go to Atlanta to testify.

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Supreme Court rejects push to move Georgia case against ex-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows

The Supreme Court has refused to let former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows move the election interference case against him in Georgia to federal court, where he would have argued he was immune from prosecution.

November 12, 2024
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  • Associated Press
The battle over key election rules is still set to play out before the Georgia Supreme Court. John McCosh/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Georgia election board set to resume next week after court setbacks delayed Trump’s agenda

The right wing of the Georgia State Election Board that champions rules favored by GOP supporters of President-elect Donald is set to get back to its agenda after court decisions thwarted past attempts to implement the changes before November.

November 12, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
The Mossy Branch Energy Facility is located in Talbot County, Georgia.. The 65 MW plant can power up to 55,000 homes. Photo courtesy of Georgia Power

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  • News

Georgia Power, local leaders celebrate state’s first battery plant opening. Take a look

Georgia Power's new 65 megawatt battery energy storage system named Mossy Branch Energy Facility in Talbot County went live recently.

November 11, 2024
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  • Kala Hunter

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GPB evening headlines for November 8, 2024

Georgia state Senate Republicans nominated Senator John Kennedy of Macon Thursday night for president pro-tem.

Sea turtles in coastal Georgia had a slow nesting season this year, but experts say a busy season is on the horizon.

November 08, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
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