With former President Carter in hospice care, today’s President’s Day observance in his hometown of Plains, Ga. took on extra meaning. People there were reflecting on Carter’s time in office — and what he did afterwards. Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Grant Blankenship has more from Plains.
On the Monday Feb. 20 edition of GeorgiaToday: Well wishes for Jimmy Carter pour in, an effort to extend Medicaid for HIV-positive Georgians proceeds, and DeKalb police are accused of violating the ADA.
Eyes are on DeKalb County's Zoning Board of Appeals after a Fulton County judge made a decision in a lawsuit requesting a stop-work order on the future police safety training center.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says Atlanta-based freight rail company Norfolk Southern must make residents of a small Ohio town "whole" after a fiery derailment earlier this month released toxic chemicals in the area.
A record number of guns were intercepted last year at airport checkpoints across the country.
Savannah has been chosen to host the ECHL hockey league's all-star game next year.
Since the announcement that former President Jimmy Carter would continue his hospice care at home after a few stays in the hospital, people around the world have used the Carter Center's Kudoboard to send him best wishes during this time.
Home to four Superfund sites, the Brunswick area has a long history of environmental contamination from local industry. But there has never been a study of Brunswick residents to determine if the environmental contaminants have entered people’s bodies — until now.
Well-wishes for former President Jimmy Carter have poured in since The Carter Center announced Saturday he had decided to forgo further medical treatment and instead receive hospice care.
The Georgia Legislature’s Public & Community Health Committee voted in favor of a plan to expand Medicaid coverage to Georgians living with HIV.
Emory University and the College of the Muscogee Nation are partnering to advance indigenous studies and create more speakers of the Muscogee language.
Nine youths - including a 5-year-old child - were wounded after shots rang out at a gas station in a Georgia city bordering Alabama, authorities said Saturday.
Carter is 98 years old and served as president from 1977 to 1981. The longest-lived former president has suffered from a series of health challenges in recent years.
A shortage of public defenders in Georgia is leaving attorneys overburdened and those accused of crimes waiting for a proper defense. Some public defender advocates say its time for the state to fund them properly.
A federal judge agreed Friday to dismiss a lawsuit that had accused a Georgia school district of racial discrimination, including for barring students from wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts.