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News Articles: glynn county

Henry “Hal” Hart, Brunswick, was a participant in the Emory University exposure study. April 23, 2025 in Brunswick, GA. (Justin Taylor/The Current GA)

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  • Environment

Brunswick human exposure study leaves more questions than answers for participants

The 97-participant study included residents who lived or worked near the toxic sites.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Jabari Gibbs and
  • The Current
The LCP Chemicals Superfund Site, Feb. 7, 2024, Brunswick, GA.

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  • Health

Still more to learn about human exposure to toxic contaminants in Brunswick

A report from Emory University scientists shows some people in the Coastal Georgia city have been exposed to toxic chemicals left over from Superfund sites.

April 30, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Former Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney Jackie Johnson, second from right, speaks to her legal team Tuesday at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick that includes Brian Steel, left, Jason Clark, second from left, and Keith Adams, right. Tuesday was the first day of jury selection in Johnson’s trial on charges of obstruction and violation of oath of office. (Michael Hall/Brunswick News)

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  • Law

‘Good ol’ boy system,’ ‘Witch hunt’: What potential jurors had to say at start of Jackie Johnson trial

Jury selection in the Arbery-related case was interrupted by the arrival of a winter storm on Tuesday.

January 23, 2025
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By:
  • Jake Shore
Dozens of Black Lives Matter and Black Panther protesters gather outside the Glynn County Courthouse where the trial of Travis McMichael, his father, Gregory McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan is held, Nov. 22, 2021, in Brunswick, Ga.

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Ahmaud Arbery's family is still waiting for ex-prosecutor's misconduct trial after 3 years

The family of Ahmaud Arbery is waiting for stalled court proceedings to resume in the case of a former Georgia prosecutor accused of interfering with the police investigation into the Black man's killing. A grand jury indicted former District Attorney Jackie Johnson on misconduct charges in September 2021.

September 16, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Rev. Barbara Brockman swirls a sample of water mixed with a reagent to prepare for incubation while talking with Luke Roberson, the coordinator of community engagement and outreach on the project from Georgia Southern. Credit: Serra Sowers/The Current

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  • Environment

Brunswick residents join scientists to test water quality near Superfund sites

A partnership between residents of Brunswick and Georgia Southern University’s Institute for Water and Health is hoping to bridge the gaps in data collection in some of Glynn county’s most polluted waters.

August 01, 2024
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By:
  • The Current and
  • Serra Sowers
A man experiencing homelessness in Brunswick uses The Well as a place to safely rest and escape the heat in summer 2023. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current

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  • News

Housing construction for homeless men in limbo after Glynn County Commission defers vote

The rift between Glynn County residents who see the people as threats to neighborhood safety and those working to improve outcomes for the homeless is festering this summer. Last month, County Commissioners tabled a vote on whether to permit a faith-based organization to build a night shelter for local men with jobs but nowhere to live and left advocates with no clear path forward.

July 15, 2024
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By:
  • Jabari Gibbs
Joie Henney hugs his emotional support alligator named Wally, Jan. 22, 2019, inside their home in York Haven, Pa. Henney credits Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade, says he's searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to the coast of Georgia.

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Man says his emotional support alligator, known for its big social media audience, has gone missing

A Pennsylvania man says his emotional support alligator named Wally has gone missing amid the coastal marshes of Georgia. Joie Henney's alligator has attracted thousands of social media followers over the years, with videos and photos showing people petting and cuddling the 5 1/2-foot reptile.

May 02, 2024
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  • Associated Press
John Powell

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  • News

GA Supreme Court kills indictment against former Glynn County Police Chief

The Georgia Supreme Court issued a ruling in the four-year legal case against former Glynn County Police Chief John Powell, reversing a decision by a trial judge and setting the stage for Powell’s criminal charges to be dismissed.

April 30, 2024
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By:
  • Jake Shore
Sam McCaster

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  • News

GBNET defendants didn’t know they could get cases reviewed

Many defendants included on lists of potentially compromised cases prepared by the Glynn County district attorney said they were unaware their accusers had been convicted of misconduct or that their cases could be reviewed until The Current contacted them this past winter.

April 26, 2024
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  • Caitlin Philippo
Illustration by Katherine Silvia

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  • News

In Brunswick, drug cops were convicted. A prosecutor was indicted. But hundreds caught in their maw are forgotten

Though more than 450 people's drug-related convictions were flagged years ago by the former Brunswick area district attorney for possible review because of wrongdoing by GBNET officers, scores of them were never informed of this opportunity to challenge their convictions.

April 26, 2024
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By:
  • Caitlin Philippo
This photo combo shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. Jurors on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021 convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their neighborhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

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  • News

Ahmaud Arbery's killers ask a US appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions

Three white men are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out their hate crime convictions in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The 25-year-old Black man was chased by men in pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a coastal Georgia subdivision in 2020.

March 27, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Jimmy 'Butch" Heck

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  • News

Glynn homes for homeless caught in bureaucratic slog

For four years, Fraisher Poole, a 66-year-old grandmother, has been living on the streets of the town where she grew up and raised her own family. For more than six months, she has been anxiously waiting for news that she can turn the keys and walk into a new home.

March 20, 2024
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By:
  • Justin Taylor and
  • The Current
 A masked Glynn County narcotics unit officer at the scene of a February 2018 crash, where GBNET officers allegedly sought to cover up their involvement. Credit: Body camera screenshot

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  • News

Justices weigh former Glynn police chief’s actions in oral arguments

The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments by both prosecution and defense lawyer for ex-chief John Powell.

February 13, 2024
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By:
  • Jake Shore
People gather in front of a mural of Ahmaud Arbery painted on the side of The Brunswick African American Cultural Center demanding justice for Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Georgia, November 4, 2021.

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  • News

Judge rejects effort to dismiss case against former DA charged in Ahmaud Arbery killing's aftermath

A Georgia judge has refused to dismiss misconduct charges against a former prosecutor accused of hindering the investigation into the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

November 29, 2023
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By:
  • Associated Press
James T. Cassada (center), a former Glynn County Police drug investigator, was allowed to end his probation six years early, after he pleaded guilty in 2019 to having sexual relationships with informants.

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  • News

Judge gave Glynn cop who slept with informants clean record

A Glynn County Superior Court judge has wiped clean the criminal record of a county police officer who used drugs and had sexual relationships with confidential informants as he was operating as a member of a now disbanded elite anti-drug unit. 

July 14, 2023
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By:
  • Jake Shore
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