Every couple of weeks, police in Americus, a small city in Southwest Georgia, respond to trouble at the home of the same young man. The man goes through psychotic episodes, sometimes violent ones. He’s on the autism spectrum and has been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Cases of COVID-19 are now emerging in Southwest Georgia, far from the state epicenter of the outbreak in metro Atlanta. Officials at Phoebe Putney...

We spoke by phone to people from McRae, Plains and Valdosta about how Hurricanes may be the new normal for South Georgia.