Authorities in coastal Georgia have filed misdemeanor charges against two adults and two juveniles in the case of a teenager who ended up hospitalized after blacking out from severe intoxication. The police chief and district attorney for Glynn County held a news conference Monday largely devoted to debunking misinformation that had spread.
On the Monday, April 17 edition of GeorgiaToday: The family of a dead Gwinnett County Jail detainee files a lawsuit; Georgia Power is raising prices to cover fuel costs; and UGA's football team has a new mascot.
Emergency crews extinguished a fire at a Georgia chemical plant shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, allowing officials to lift a shelter-in-place order issued in the afternoon when the fire broke out for the second time in the day.
The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy named a veterinary tranquilizer an “emerging threat” for humans when mixed with the opioid fentanyl, but pharmacists say they've been warning for years about irreversible overdose and extreme morbidity risks associated with xylazine.
Monday on Political Rewind: In an interview with CNN, Gov. Brian Kemp indicated he's not interested in passing gun control legislation. He also suggested Donald Trump can't win in 2024 if he keeps insisting he was robbed in 2020. Plus, a new study on the spread of right-wing extremism in schools.
There will be a new English bulldog puppy roaming the Georgia sideline in the 2023 season. Saturday's G-Day spring scrimmage marked the transition of Georgia mascots as Uga X, named Que, retired as the winningest mascot in school history.
On the Friday, April 14 edition of Georgia Today: A megadonor purchased Clarence Thomas' mother's home in Savannah; climate researchers are working to protect pecans; and we visit a sapling forest of genetically modified trees in Georgia.
Georgians’ right to fish in navigable portions of the state’s rivers and streams was safeguarded in the final seconds of this year’s legislative session.
After sailing through the Georgia House of Representatives, a bill aimed at reducing some prescription drug costs for consumers was blocked by a close vote in a Senate committee.
An international team of researchers, including four at the University of Georgia, are looking for ways to adapt one of Georgia’s top commodities: pecans.
Students at North Carolina's flagship public university have walked out of class to protest school officials' decision to ban a law school student from campus.
A key state agency will recommend a slightly higher wage increase for caregivers who work with people with disabilities in Georgia and who would see a $6 hourly rate increase under the proposal. Gov. Brian Kemp and lawmakers will decide whether to move forward with the recommendations and fund them in the state budget.
Georgia musicians will perform classical and jazz treatments of the band's songs in two different Atlanta-area concert settings in the months of April and May.