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News Articles: Savannah

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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Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling delivers a pitch at Fenway Park in 2006.

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Savannah Bananas to play at Fenway Park on Saturday, in team's first game at famed Boston ballpark

The sold-out matchup will be live-streamed, with first pitch set for 7 p.m.

June 07, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
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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Hurricane Lee (left) and Tropical Storm Margot, as seen from a NOAA satellite on Sept. 11, 2023.

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More than meets the eye of the storm: What Georgians should be prepared for this hurricane season

The National Hurricane Center's deputy director joined GPB to discuss the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.

June 05, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne

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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
The new Savannah St. Patrick's Day parade “to-go” cup features illustrations of six local landmarks, including the Forsyth Park fountain.

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Savannah seeks public comment on whether to expand city's open-container ‘to-go cup’ zone

The proposed zone would encompass the Starland District and Victorian District, among other neighborhoods.

June 03, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
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
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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  • GPB News Radio

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GPB morning headlines for May 28, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently redesigned their website. 

One of Georgia’s public colleges is offering joint enrollment to students in Saint-Maarten, in what it’s calling a first-of-its-kind partnership between a U.S. college and a Caribbean school.

May 28, 2024
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  • GPB News Radio
In this frame from U.S. Capitol surveillance video, the man in the yellow circle is identified by the FBI as Dominic Box, entering through the Senate wing door of the building on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Savannah Jan. 6 defendant admits involvement in Capitol attack, ahead of scheduled June bench trial

As part of an agreement with federal prosecutors, Dominic Box will retain his right to appeal a judge's pending ruling on his case.

May 24, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
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