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A frame grab from dashboard video of Ximena Arias-Cristobal's arrest for driving without a license. The charge would later be dropped but after Immigrations Customs and Enforcement issued and acted on a detainer request to the Whitfield County Jail.

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  • Law

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

North Georgia college student Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who had been in immigration detention for over two weeks, has been granted bond and will go home. 

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

May 21, 2025
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  • Grant Blankenship and
  • Sofi Gratas
Ximena Arias Cristobal was wrongfully arrested following a traffic stop.

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for May 21, 2025

19-year-old student detained by ICE to go home; worker died in workplace accident Hyundai plant; Kemp supports proposed Georgia Power rate freeze.

May 21, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio
Adriana Smith and her son

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  • Health

In the case of a pregnant and brain-dead patient at Emory, answers are not clear cut

The ethical and legal concerns raised over the treatment of Atlanta’s Adriana Smith are representative of experiences in a post-Roe America, some say. 

May 21, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
Alton Fry, a Franklin County man who is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, makes too much money for Medicaid but too little to afford coverage through the marketplace. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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  • News

Advocates warn that proposed Medicaid cuts threaten Georgia’s safety net programs

Advocates are bracing for potential cuts to Georgia’s safety net programs under the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill” moving through Congress, though it remains to be seen what changes to programs like Medicaid will end up in the final version. 

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Jill Nolin and
  • Georgia Recorder
Wayne Martin stands behind a podium with older people from the community.

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  • News

Applications closing soon for Atlanta senior property tax relief program

Invest Atlanta is offering 20 years of property tax relief to seniors to help them age in place, but the deadline to apply is coming up soon. 

May 21, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
A Nissan Rogue exits the bay of the vehicle carrier Neptune Ace at the Port of Brunswick in Georgia.

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  • News

GPB morning headlines for May 21, 2025

Vehicle imports at Port of Brunswick down 21%; Home Depot won't raise prices from tariffs; Macon-Bibb County seeks federal aid to investigate recent shootings

May 21, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio

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  • News

Georgia Today: Deadly shootings in Macon; Savannah PD trained on LGBTQ hate crimes; Atlanta author

On the May 20 edition: Macon police investigate two recent shootings; Savannah Pride Center trains city police on LGBTQ hate crimes; an Atlanta author's new memoir compares her story with Virginia Woolf's.

May 20, 2025
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  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Jake Cook
FILE - A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine rests on a table at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., on July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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  • Health

Trump officials set new requirements for COVID vaccines in healthy adults and children

Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new requirements for access to updated COVID shots, saying they'd continue to use a streamlined approach to make them available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one high-risk health problem.

May 20, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Keisha Lance Bottoms

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  • News

GPB evening headlines for May 20, 2025

Former Atlanta Mayor Bottoms launches bid for governor; Macon sheriff’s office seeks federal aid in recent shootings; nonprofit partners with Savannah police to train in LGBTQ issues.

May 20, 2025
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  • GPB News Radio
This historic image depicts one of the former Malaria Control in War Areas field station buildings in Newton, Georgia. (Courtesy of CDC)

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  • Health

Why is the CDC located in Atlanta and not D.C.? History tied to Coca-Cola and mosquitoes

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has deep roots in Atlanta and plays an important role in making the city a public health center. 

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine and
  • Healthbeat
Four Savannah Police Department squad cars are parked in front of one another on a brick road.

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  • News

Savannah Pride Center, police partner on LGBTQ training to 'turn the corner' on hate crime reporting

New program aims to build trust between law enforcement and LGBTQ Savannahians through expanded liaison services and officer education on bias incidents.

May 20, 2025
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  • Benjamin Payne
The National Weather Service of Atlanta announced a severe weather risk for Tuesday, May 20, 2025 during the evening and night. NWS Atlanta/X

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Severe weather threat for North and Central Georgia includes risk for winds, tornadoes and hail

A storm system moving across Georgia Tuesday evening into early Wednesday could do damage overnight. Georgians should stay alert and be prepared.

May 20, 2025
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  • GPB News Staff
Senior Adviser to President Biden for Public engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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  • News

Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms launches bid for Georgia governor

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms says her one term as Atlanta mayor gave her "battle-tested executive leadership" that she can offer to Georgia voters as she runs for governor.

May 20, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Units 1 and 2 of Georgia Power’s Plant Volte nuclear power plant, background, and one of the new new cooling towers brought online in 2024, foreground.

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  • Energy

Georgia Power agrees to hold rates steady, but that doesn't include hurricane recovery costs

Georgia Power announced on Monday that it has agreed to a plan with regulatory staff to hold base power rates steady through the end of 2028. But customer bills could still rise in 2026.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Associated Press and
  • Grant Blankenship
With construction of Vogtle units 3 and 4 came investment in new transmission lines to move what accounts for 1/3 of Georgia Power’s total capacity out across the state.

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  • News

GPB morning headlines for May 20, 2025

Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is officially running for Governor of Georgia; The Department of Public Health has confirmed the fourth measles case in Georgia this year; Georgia Power will not seek to raise base rates for the next three-years.

May 20, 2025
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