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News Articles: Macon

Images of Macon’s famed showman line the hall of the Little Richard House in Pleasant Hill.

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Little Richard House closes indefinitely

The Little Richard Neighborhood Resource Center closed indefinitely without fanfare or public notice recently.

June 10, 2024
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  • Laura Corley
A cotton plant is pictured in this undated photo.

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GPB morning headlines for June 10, 2024

A televised debate between the two Republican candidates hoping to represent Southwest Georgia’s Second Congressional District was cut short Sunday.

A wet spring has delayed the planting season for the state's cotton crops.

The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented new guidelines last week on medication to prevent sexually transmitted infections. 

June 10, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
The United States District Courthouse sits on Mulberry Street on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in Macon, Georgia. (Photo/Katie Tucker ktucker@macon.com)

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Macon rehab center admits to altering records during fraud investigation. Owner pleads guilty

The owner of a Macon area rehabilitation center admitted on Wednesday to ordering two employees to alter documents during a 2019 federal investigation into fraudulent billing, according to the Department of Justice.

June 07, 2024
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  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • Alba Rosa

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Widely available antibiotic now recommended to prevent STIs, says Atlanta-based CDC

When taken up to three days after having sex, the antibiotic doxycycline has been shown to prevent syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia in about two-thirds of users. 

June 07, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
Wide exterior shot of the Georgia state capitol

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GPB morning headlines for June 7, 2024

Republicans in the U.S. Senate have blocked legislation designed to protect women’s access to contraception.

Scaffolding is going up this week around the state capitol as part of a nearly $400 million renovation project.

The Savannah Bananas will be traveling this weekend to one of baseball's most iconic ballparks.

June 07, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
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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GPB morning headlines for June 6, 2024

The Georgia Court of Appeals has paused the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others while it reviews a lower court ruling.

As the global climate warms, Georgia is seeing more plant and animal species that normally live somewhere else. The newest scientifically-confirmed climate migrator in our state is the mangrove tree.

Students at the Georgia Institute of Technology have brought back a student organization that takes care of the university’s population of feral cats.

June 06, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio

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GPB morning headlines for June 5, 2024

The company that currently provides health care to Georgia prisons is suing the state over contract negotiations it says the state mishandled. 

Officials in Sandy Springs, north of Atlanta, want a judge to rule on the city’s lawsuit over a water system agreement with Atlanta to avoid the kind of crisis that struck Atlanta this weekend.

Cherokee County Commissioners chose to uphold an equal partisan split on the local elections board despite pushback from Republicans.

June 05, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
A Bibb County summer camper gets free lunch from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Macon.

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Georgia's opting out of a federal food program this summer. Here's what's available for kids in need

The so-called Summer EBT program is an extension of the Pandemic EBT program model, which had near-national enrollment and ended last year. 

June 04, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas

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GPB morning headlines for June 4, 2024

Residents in parts of Atlanta have been without clean water for three days since a series of water mains burst this weekend.

Georgia is opting out of a federal program that would give families extra money to feed their kids this summer. 

New state funding will help grow an Atlanta program that empowers and supports people living with mental illness in Georgia.

June 04, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Crews working to repair the 11th Street water main break at 7:30 a.m. Monday, June 3. (Photo by Beth McKibben)

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GPB morning headlines for June 3, 2024

Much of Atlanta remains under a boil water advisory Monday morning as the city continues repairs on a water main break in Midtown.

Attorneys for three former sheriff’s deputies set to go on trial again on murder charges in the 2017 death of an elderly Black man in Washington County will argue the men are immune from prosecution. 

Hurricane season officially began Saturday.

June 03, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
U.S. Postal Service vehicles

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GPB morning headlines for May 31, 2024

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff visited the U.S. Postal Service’s Palmetto facility after months of reported delays in mail delivery.

The man charged with killing a nursing student at a popular walking trail at the University is scheduled to be in court Friday.

A new state law clarifies zoning regulations and gives Georgians recovering from addiction more options for treatment.

May 31, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia First Lady Marty Kemp are shown taking a selfie in front of a nuclear cooling tower.

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GPB morning headlines for May 30, 2024

The Georgia Secretary of State’s office is auditing randomly selected batches of ballots from the recent primary election.

Georgia Power officials celebrated the completion of the nuclear expansion at Plant Vogtle, south of Augusta, Wednesday.

Officials in Augusta celebrated the re-opening of one of the city's most popular entertainment venues.

May 30, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
Future homeowner LaQuanda Ferguson (right) reads remarks next to Macon Area Habitat for Humanity board president Andrea Cooke during the Lynmore Estates ground blessing on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Macon, Georgia. Macon Area Habitat for Humanity held the ground blessing at a plot of land off of Dorothy Avenue where three future homes will be built.

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Macon wants to get rid of rundown buildings. Could we see affordable housing replace them?

Macon-Bibb County has demolished more than 700 rundown, abandoned, hazardous buildings within the county, and while thousands still reportedly remain, one group is finding use for the land that’s left once a blighted building is destroyed.

May 30, 2024
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  • Lucinda Warnke and
  • The Telegraph
Back of a school bus.

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Funds for clean school buses coming to hundreds of districts, White House says

As part of its ongoing effort to replace diesel-fueled school buses, the Biden administration on Wednesday said it will provide approximately 530 school districts across nearly all states with almost $1 billion to help them purchase clean school buses.

May 29, 2024
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  • Shauneen Miranda
A fleet of Broward County School Buses are parked in a lot on July 21, 2020 in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Photo by Johnny Louis/Getty Images

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GPB Morning Headlines for May 29, 2024

An Atlanta political activist has clinched the libertarian presidential nomination.

Nine Georgia school systems are receiving $19 million to phase out diesel-powered school buses. 

The National Weather Service confirmed an EF-1 tornado made a brief touchdown in Coweta County during strong storms on Memorial Day.

May 29, 2024
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