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News Articles: Georgia

After the remnants of Tropical Storm Zeta blew through Georgia Thursday morning, 15 counties planned to open their early voting locations late, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.

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'Targeted disinformation' warning: Beware of social media posts, Georgia Secretary of State says

Halloween night, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger released a warning to voters: Social media posts may include disinformation from foreign sources. 

 

November 01, 2024
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  • GPB News Staff
Fairgoers ride the ferris wheel at sunset at the Georgia National Fair in Perry, Ga., on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2024. (Photo/Margaret Bartlett)

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Goats and swings: A trip to the Georgia National Fair with UGA photojournalists

Students from the University of Georgia’s Advanced Photojournalism class spent a long day documenting the Georgia National Fair in Perry, Ga. With an early morning charge to "show what the fair means and not what it looks like," students covered everything from livestock competitions to concerts.

November 01, 2024
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  • GPB News Staff
Bruce Springsteen performs at rally for Kamala Harris, October 2024

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  • Music Features

This election cycle, music is impacting voters on and off the campaign trail

From songs performed by Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen and Lee Greenwood to a WWE theme at a rally and stress-relieving playlist by R.E.M., here’s what the final sprint to Election Day sounds like. GPB’s Kristi York Wooten has more from the heart of the campaign action in Atlanta.

 

November 01, 2024
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  • Kristi York Wooten
The sun sets on Sapelo after a ferry dock collapse left 7 dead on Oct. 19, 2024. Credit: Jazz Watts

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GPB morning headlines for November 1, 2024

Several witnesses of the fatal dock collapse on coastal Georgia's Sapelo Island testified Thursday at a state senate hearing on the tragedy.

Public health and school officials in metro Atlanta's Cobb County confirmed Thursday that no students were exposed to the germs that cause tuberculosis in a suspected outbreak this week.

Georgia early voting numbers show that women are voting in higher numbers than men.

November 01, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Young Thug attends the 3rd Annual Diamond Ball at Cipriani Wall Street on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, in New York.

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Rapper Young Thug pleads guilty to gang, drug and gun charges

Rapper Young Thug has pleaded guilty to gang, drug and gun charges. Lead prosecutor Adriane Love says 33-year-old Grammy winning artist, whose given name is Jeffery Williams, entered his pleas without reaching a deal with prosecutors.

October 31, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient

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Georgia Today: Suspected tuberculosis outbreak in Cobb; Long term effects of Helene; Abortions fall

On the Thursday, Oct. 13 edition of Georgia Today: New details on a suspected tuberculosis outbreak in Atlanta's Cobb County; an organization in South Georgia addresses the long-term effects of Hurricane Helene; and as abortions decrease in Georgia, how do those numbers illustrate a national trend?

October 31, 2024
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  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Jake Cook
Donna Lowry

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  • News

Legislative Huddle: Lawmakers react to Helene's impact on Georgia

Today on Legislative Huddle: Morning Edition host Pamela Kirkland talks to Lawmakers' Donna Lowry about Hurricane Helene's devastating impact on Georgia, and what lawmakers are doing to provide relief to their neighbors.

October 31, 2024
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  • Pamela Kirkland
A view of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 29, 2024. File photo by Kevin Mohatt/Reuters

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GPB evening headlines for October 31, 2024

Georgia public health data shows a decrease in abortions numbers in the year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade.

Gwen Walz, the wife of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, made stops from Atlanta to Valdosta today as next the election nears.

A new organization is coming together in south Georgia's Coffee County to meet long-term needs stemming from Hurricane Helene.

October 31, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
People gather in front of the Georgia State Capital in Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022, to protest to protest the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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  • Health

Abortions in Georgia dipped last year, evidence of a changing landscape of reproductive care

It’s the first decline the state has seen in procedures since 2017, according to final data from the Georgia Department of Public Health. 

October 31, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient

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  • Global Health

Public health officials confirm zero students tested positive for TB exposure at Walton High School

Cobb & Douglas Public Health and Walton High School’s administration tested approximately 200 students and faculty at the school Tuesday, Oct. 29, and all results were negative for TB exposure.

October 31, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge

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  • Health

Rising cases of diabetes in Georgia are linked to obesity, public health policy

Around 1 million people in the state have Type 2 Diabetes — and close to a quarter million more likely have it and don’t know, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health.

October 31, 2024
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Many of the loblolly and slash pines felled or nearly felled by Hurricane Helene at Broxton Rocks in Coffee County were part of a nursery for longleaf pine seedlings being nurtured by the Georgia chapter of the Nature Conservancy.

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  • Environment

A South Georgia ecological oasis, slammed by Hurricane Helene, faces an uncertain future

The Southern landscape now experiencing the effects of climate change has already seen centuries of loss of wild places due to human industry. Now, climate-change-strengthened storms threaten the pockets of older Southern ecologies that remain.

October 31, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
Callie Beale and her daughter Kit pose for a portrait near their home in Savannah.

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  • Politics

Delay in care can be deadly in pregnancy. Here's one mother's experience with Georgia's abortion law

“I should have been able to act without the government's interference in order to save my daughter's life,” said Savannah mother Callie Beale.

October 31, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
Morning Headlines from GPB News

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GPB morning headlines for October 31, 2024

Georgia saw a decrease in abortions in the year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe-versus-Wade -- and the state was able to enact its abortion ban past six-weeks of pregnancy. 

Georgia voters are casting ballots ahead of next week's election in numbers that continue to shatter records.

People who are overweight, over 40, or have a family history of Type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of developing the disease.

October 31, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Harris in GA

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  • Elections

Early voting among women voters in Georgia encourages Democrats, even as some polls favor Trump

Women are outvoting men by more than 10 points in Georgia, according to the Georgia Secretary of State's voter turnout data hub.

October 30, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
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