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Kemp extends emergency declaration from Debby
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp has extended the state of emergency in parts of Georgia in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Debby until Tuesday, Aug. 20. The lingering effects of last week’s storm were still being felt Friday in southeastern Georgia in the form of floodwaters after Debby dropped more than 10 inches of rain in already saturated areas. The Ogeechee and Canoochee rivers overflowed their banks. Several provisions in...
Carr announces new head for state’s Organized Retail Crime Unit
(The Center Square) – Georgia's Organized Retail Crime Unit is a first, and Assistant District Attorney Timothy Ruffini has been tapped to lead it by state Attorney General Chris Carr. Carr said the initiative will work to stop the rise in organized retail theft and cyber crimes across the state. “From North Georgia and metro Atlanta to South Georgia and the coast, we have seen unprecedented success in putting away...
Raffensperger slams Georgia election board proposal to hand-count ballots as ‘misguided’
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger criticized a rule being considered by the State Election Board that would require poll workers to count ballots by hand on Election Day. The rule, proposed by Sharlene Alexander, a member of the Fayette County Board of Elections and Voter Registration, would require three poll workers to hand-count all […]
Vantage Data Centers Plans Two New Sites in Georgia
Vantage Data Centers, a DigitalBridge Group (NYSE: DBRG) portfolio company, is expanding in Georgia. The company has filed two Developments of Regional Impact (DRI) applications with the Georgia Department of Community Affairs to build data center campuses in Fulton County, outside Atlanta, Data Centre Dynamics reported. The first application, referred...
Ohio AG Yost and three other AGs push for grocery mega-merger between Kroger and Albertsons
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and his counterparts in Alabama, Georgia and Iowa went to court Wednesday to urge that the merger between Kroger and Albertsons go through. Opponents of the merger — including the Federal Trade Commission and eight state attorneys general — say that such a huge merger in a consolidating marketplace will […]
Alabama militia-member arrested in Georgia for illegally possessing gun while trying to buy horse
FITZGERALD, Ga. — Joshua Colston traveled from his home in Corinth, Mississippi to Fitzgerald in Ben Hill County in 2022 to buy a horse and "get off the grid," prosecutors say. However, he got a lot more than he was bargaining for. But instead of riding off on horseback,...
Georgia Forecast: Severe Thunderstorms Threat Looms Over North Georgia on Friday
Peachtree City, GA – North Georgia is under a Marginal Risk (Level 1 out of 5) for severe thunderstorms on Friday, according to the National Weather Service in Peachtree City. Areas along and north of a line from Rome to Blairsville are most at risk. The storms are expected to develop in the afternoon and evening, bringing the potential for damaging wind gusts and locally heavy rainfall.
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