Dr. Harry Heiman, a public health expert at Georgia State University, said Tuesday that there are positive and encouraging trends on COVID in the state, “but we are far from out of the woods.’’
Wednesday on Political Rewind: We spoke with a panel of mayors from across Georgia to take the temperature of each of their communities. What are the key issues they are confronting as 2021 comes to an end?
One of the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery told police they had the 25-year-old Black man "trapped like a rat" before he was fatally shot.
Atlanta is the only U.S. city to be featured in Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2022. All Things Considered host Rickey Bevington talks to Alisa Johnson, an editor of Lonely Planet.
The administration expects the Port of Savannah, the nation’s third-busiest importer, to be the first to take advantage of a policy change allowing ports to redirect about $8 million in funding to immediately address supply chain challenges, the official said.
A patrol officer who interviewed Greg McMichael at the scene of the February 2020 shooting told a jury Tuesday that McMichael at first told him Arbery had been caught on video "breaking in all these houses out here." Later he said Arbery had been recorded entering a single home still under construction a few times.
Tuesday on Political Rewind: We remembered the life and political career of Georgian and former Sen. Max Cleland. In redistricting news, Republican legislative leaders are facing pushback from some GOP voters who say they’re being denied the right to elect candidates of their own choice as proposed redistricting maps surface.
Lawmakers on Monday mulled that new legislation may not be the best solution to protect health care workers from a recent spate of increasing violence from patients.
On April 8, 1968, during the Vietnam War, Cleland lost his right forearm arm and both legs after a grenade exploded near his unit during the Battle of Khe Sanh. The grenade had fallen off a flak jacket of one of Cleland’s fellow soldiers during a helicopter landing. Cleland was 25 at the time of the accident.
The House unveiled a new legislative map shortly before a 1 p.m. meeting of the chamber’s redistricting committee, leaving some activists and residents who had planned to attend scrambling to figure out what the changes meant.
