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GPB evening headlines for November 1, 2023

A privately-funded effort is underway to find three Camden County men who are missing after a boat trip that began 18 days ago.

Georgia’s peanut harvest is coming in later than usual this year. Farmers say it’s because of the weather over the last few months.

Today marks the one year anniversary since health care giant Wellstar shut down its Atlanta Medical Center, shocking city leaders.

November 01, 2023
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Kemp asking Georgia lawmakers to back another Savannah Harbor deepening

Gov. Brian Kemp urged members of Georgia’s congressional delegation Monday to support a request by the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) for a study of the economic and environmental impacts of another deepening of Savannah Harbor.

November 01, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
Electric vehicle owners visited the EV roadshow when it stopped in Fayetteville, Georgia August 18, 2022.

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Federal funding looks to promote equity in Georgia’s growing electric transit industry

Funding from the Department of Energy will be used to ensure Black Georgians have equal access to the state's growing electric transportation networks and industry.

November 01, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
Atlanta Medical Center on Boulevard will close Nov. 1. (Wellstar Health System)

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GPB morning headlines for November 1, 2023

Today marks the one-year anniversary since health care giant Wellstar shut down its Atlanta Medical Center.

Sea turtle hatching season in Georgia ended Tuesday with a better year than expected for the threatened species.

Two Georgia juvenile court judges say the head of the state’s child welfare agency asked them to violate state law. 

November 01, 2023
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A Georgia Sea Turtle Center researcher holds a baby loggerhead sea turtle on Jekyll Island.

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Sea turtles enjoy ‘much more successful year than expected’ in Georgia, as hatching season ends

A sea turtle researcher says the animals are “on the road to recovery.”

November 01, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
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GPB evening headlines for October 31, 2023

Two Georgia juvenile court judges say the head of the state’s child welfare agency asked them to violate state law.

Primary and secondary sellers of music and sporting event tickets in Georgia are at odds over an effort to regulate their industry.

A panel of state lawmakers will meet tomorrow to discuss the state's electronic voting system.

October 31, 2023
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The Georgia Department of Agriculture shared images of a yellow-legged hornet nest that its scientists removed Wednesday from a tree on a Wilmington Island residential property located near the Savannah Bee Company's garden.

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GPB morning headlines for October 31, 2023

Georgia's only Jewish state lawmaker is renewing a push for a state law to define antisemitism for hate crimes prosecutions.

Relatives of people taken hostage by Hamas are asking Americans to call for their release.

Reports of invasive yellow-legged hornets in the Savannah area are growing.

October 31, 2023
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GPB evening headlines for October 30, 2023

Georgia's only Jewish state lawmaker is renewing a push for a state law to define antisemitism for hate crimes prosecutions.

Nearly three weeks after four inmates escaped from the Bibb County Jail, Macon's mayor and Sheriff disagree on the cause.

Georgia is getting millions of federal dollars to train teaching assistants to become full-time teachers in rural parts of the state.

October 30, 2023
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GPB morning headlines for October 30, 2023

Millions in federal spending will go to training teaching assistants to become full time teachers in rural Georgia schools.

Georgia State University is holding a campus-wide townhall Monday in response to a shooting near the university's Atlanta campus over the weekend. 

A new study sheds positive light on the public’s perception of physician assistants. It also finds that adding more of them to the healthcare workforce benefit patients.

October 30, 2023
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GPB evening headlines for October 27, 2023

A report from finds a staggering number of children in Georgia’s foster care system -- 1,800 in four years -- were reported missing.

The US Army officially renamed Georgia's Ft. Gordon to Ft. Eisenhower, after a national leader with strong ties to the Augusta area.

A federal grant to three groups aims to address inequalities in EV charging as Georgia grows its electric transportation networks.

October 27, 2023
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A proposed map of Georgia's 180 state House districts sits outside the chamber before lawmakers approved it on a mostly-party line vote.

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GPB morning headlines for October 27, 2023

Gov. Brian Kemp has called a special legislative session for November 29th to redraw Georgia's political maps after after a federal judge found several state legislative and Congressional boundaries violate the Voting Rights Act.

Robins Air Force Base is adding two new units that will hire more than three-hundred employees.

October 27, 2023
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Georgia Lt. Gov. candidate Burt Jones participates in a Republican primary debate, May 3, 2022, in Atlanta. A Georgia state agency said Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, that it will name a special prosecutor to consider whether Jones, the state's Republican lieutenant governor, should face criminal charges after former president Donald Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted Monday, Aug. 14, for working to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.

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GPB evening headlines for October 26, 2023

Georgia Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones says he plans to push legislation to pay teachers $10,000 a year to carry guns in schools.

A federal judge today ordered state lawmakers to create new political district boundaries, finding several of the current ones illegal.

Robins Air Force Base is adding new units and more than 300 workers in plan to make Middle Georgia a hub for electronic warfare.

October 26, 2023
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FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators gathered outside the White House in September to protest the nation's response to chronic illness, including long COVID. Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto

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New study suggests antidepressants may improve long COVID symptoms. Georgia long-haulers are hopeful

The study published this month in the journal Cell suggests treating long COVID with antidepressants such as Prozac and other medications classified as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) may help people recover faster.

October 26, 2023
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GPB morning headlines for October 26, 2023

A U.S. Senate subcommittee heard testimony from Georgians Wednesday as part of an inquiry into the treatment of children in foster care. 

A study published this month shows depleted serotonin levels could explain memory problems, brain fog and depression associated with long haul COVID.

Construction of Hyundai's first electric vehicle plant in the U.S. is moving quickly.

October 26, 2023
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GPB evening headlines for October 25, 2023

 A U.S. Senate subcommittee heard testimony from Georgians as part of an inquiry into the treatment of children in foster care.

A new shows depleted serotonin levels could explain memory problems, brain fog and depression associated with long Covid.

The restaurant-reviewing Michelin Guide has recognized 45 Atlanta-area restaurants with its first-ever awards in Georgia.

October 25, 2023
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