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Distracted driving responsible for over half of crashes in Georgia, report says
ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A new report from the Georgia Office of Highway Safety underscores the importance of putting down your phone, turning off your radio and focusing on the conditions around you. According to a report, 53% of crashes come from distracted driving. Distracted driving is defined by the...
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 […]
20/20 Sports With A.B. – Georgia High School Football, Braves Lose Against Giants, And More
In today’s 20/20 Sports with A.B., he talks about the Braves’ loss against the Giants, the GreenJackets win, and Georgia high school football getting started tonight. Ashley Brown: Well, last night, the Atlanta Braves batters did not have an answer for Logan Webb. The right-handed All-Star pitcher for the Giants helped San Francisco avoid a four-game sweep, throwing seven and two-thirds innings of shutout baseball.
Friday Fund Day: What Southeast Startups Did The Week Of August 12, 2024
School is back in session and summer vacation season is behind us. Here in the middle of August, these are the startups that made headlines recently:. QGenda, the Atlanta-based healthcare workforce management solutions platform, was acquired by Hearst. Financial details of the deal were not released, by the Wall Street Journal has some more reporting on the transaction here.
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 […]
Inflation has cost Georgia families $27,000 since 2021
(The Center Square) – Republican lawmakers in Georgia are concerned about increases in inflation, as a recent report shows households have paid $27,427 more because of inflation since January 2021. The average household in the state is spending $1,074 more per month to buy the same goods and services as in 2021, according to a July report from the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee. To have the same standard of...
No. 21 Buford takes on No. 10 Milton: How to watch the Super 25 Georgia football matchup
Georgia high school football kicks off across the state with plenty of notable matchups this week, but few more so than the gridiron action Friday night in Milton. It’s an opening USA TODAY Sports Super 25 clash, with the No. 10 Eagles welcoming No. 21 Buford in a Peach State headliner.
Gateway85 CID Executive Director, Emory Morsberger, and Board Member, Mike Reams, Named to the Top 200 Most Influential of Georgia’s Creative Industries
Gateway85 CID Executive Director, Emory Morsberger, and Board Member, Mike Reams, Named to the Top 200 Most Influential of Georgia’s Creative Industries. Norcross, GA ‐ August 15, 2024 – Georgia Entertainment, the leading source of news and information for the film, broadcast, music, esports, arts, gaming and other areas of digital entertainment, has released the names of the 200 Most Influential of Georgia’s Creative Industries. The individuals are highlighted in the second edition of the bi-annual printed publication – Georgia Entertainment: The Creative Economy Journal and include Gateway85 CID executive director, Emory Morsberger, and board member Mike Reams with OFS.
Georgia unemployment rate ticks up
Georgia’s unemployment rate increased slightly to 3.4% last month, up from 3.3% in July, even as the state continued to set records in several job categories. The state’s labor force was up 13,947 to more than 5.4 million, an all-time high, while the number of jobs rose by 2,600 to nearly 5 million, also a […] The post Georgia unemployment rate ticks up appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta.
Georgia Republicans Vote Against Democracy By Using Trump Lies To Legalize Election Interference
It's not like his voter fraud claims began in 2020—it's his go-to. In 2016, during the GOP primaries, Trump lost the Iowa and Colorado caucuses to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. He blamed voter fraud. The post Georgia Republicans Vote Against Democracy By Using Trump Lies To Legalize Election Interference appeared first on NewsOne.
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