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Trees down, roads closed, thousands without power after storms move across Georgia
DECATUR, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Storms took out power across multiple areas of metro Atlanta and North Georgia overnight. The high winds and heavy rain even toppled a tree onto a car and house Shadowbrook Place in Decatur. Officials said a 27-year-old man was killed in Cherokee County after...
Man pleads guilty to threatening to kill Marjorie Taylor Greene
(The Center Square) — A 34-year-old Atlanta man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of "transmitting interstate threats" after he threatened to kill a congresswoman from northwest Georgia, prosecutors said Tuesday. Federal prosecutors said Sean Patrick Cirillo called the Washington office of U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, three times on Nov. 8, 2023. Cirillo spoke with the congresswoman’s staffers and made "multiple threats," prosecutors said. According to a...
Georgia Is Investing the 14th Most in More Affordable Housing
Despite home price growth stabilizing, becoming a homeowner remains largely out of reach for many Americans. A recent Cato Institute housing affordability survey, conducted after the record-breaking rise in home prices during 2021 and early 2022, found that 87% of Americans are worried about housing costs. Additionally, 55% of homeowners indicated they couldn't afford to buy their current home at today's prices, and 69% are concerned that their children or grandchildren won't be able to afford a home in the future. Multiple factors have contributed...
Georgia Milestones: Best and worst school districts in reading, science, social studies
Georgia Department of Education published its Milestones scores for the 2023-2024 school year last week. The assessment system looks at multiple subject areas and whether or not students are performing at the level they need to be. According to a news release from GDOE, overall scores increased or held steady on 10 of 13 assessments in English-language arts, science, and social studies. Georgia Superintendent Richard Woods praised this accomplishment. ...
‘A Lower Priority Call’: Burn Victim at Church Fish Fry Near Atlanta Forced to Find His Own Way to Hospital After 911 Never Sent Paramedics
A church fish fry outside Atlanta took an excruciating turn when a member collapsed into a vat of hot grease and suffered severe burns, but […] ‘A Lower Priority Call’: Burn Victim at Church Fish Fry Near Atlanta Forced to Find His Own Way to Hospital After 911 Never Sent Paramedics
Georgia's largest school district won't teach Black studies course without state approval
ATLANTA — (AP) — Georgia's largest school district announced Tuesday that it won't teach a new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies, saying the state Department of Education's refusal to approve the course means its students would be cheated out of credit for the difficulty of the work.
Georgia election board walks back rules approved at meeting flagged by state AG
The nonprofit government watchdog group that sued to overturn votes taken at a Georgia State Election Board meeting earlier this month, held despite warnings from the Georgia Attorney General, says it will continue to monitor the board’s actions after the panel rescinded its earlier vote during a virtual meeting Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday’s meeting was set […]
GPB evening headlines for July 30, 2024
Presumptive presidential nominees Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris are set to appear in Georgia this week. The National Hurricane Center says a big tropical wave in the Atlantic Ocean has a 60% chance of becoming a tropical depression. Attorneys for the family of a 14-year-old boy killed by...