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Ambulances from surrounding counties filled the emergency entrance Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, Ga.
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Ambulances from surrounding counties filled the emergency entrance Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, at the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville, Ga.
A stopgap measure will keep ambulance services running in Augusta after the end of January.
Georgia foster care officials have placed more than 400 children in hotels over the past six-months.
State regulators have given Georgia Power a permit to begin long term storage of coal ash at one of its shuttered power plants.