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College Park responds after hundreds of pages of confidential documents found in recycling bin
Kelly is part of the group of College Park attorneys, business owners and managers who say they dug the documents out of the public place and took them to an agent at the Georgia Attorney General’s Office on July 10.
List | Impacts around Central Georgia from Crowdstrike tech disruptions
MACON, Ga. — People and businesses from around the world suffered setbacks Friday morning, as computer systems using Microsoft went offline following a defect in an update with the IT security company CrowdStrike. Many of these disruptions have continued throughout the day, as many businesses are affected. CrowdStrike President...
Data shows Sandy Springs short on affordable housing
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Metro Atlanta’s crisis of housing affordability is acute in Sandy Springs. That’s the word from Georgia Tech graduate Mira Kaufman who presented a Sandy Springs Homeownership Assessment with the City Council at its July 16 work session. Kaufman, with master’s degrees in city/regional...
New federal funds going to metro Atlanta fire safety upgrades
ATLANTA - Federal funds are on the way to Georgia so that local fire departments can make some much-needed upgrades. U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff announced the awards through FEMA’s Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) Program. The money is going to Atlanta and Woodstock as well as...
Georgia Democrats sue to overturn law allowing unlimited campaign cash, saying GOP unfairly benefits
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Democrats are suing to overturn the ability of Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and others to raise unlimited political contributions and spend them on behalf of any political cause. The Democratic Party of Georgia on Thursday filed suit against the governor in federal court in Atlanta. The lawsuit asks a judge to declare that a 2021 […]
More officers are watching the road this week throughout the southeast for Operation Southern Slowdown
MACON, Ga. — Both Memorial Day and July 4th saw record-high travel, and it brought out more law enforcement to patrol the streets. A study by the Vacationer Travel Journal says more than 200 million Americans plan to travel this summer. However, you may have noticed this week that...
Is it legal to hunt coyotes in Georgia?
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Coyotes are a non-native species to Georgia, with a population appearing in the 1970s and progressively growing large based on their adaptive abilities. This also means that an influx of their population could harm the local ecosystem since they are considered an apex predator in many Georgia areas. It is legal […]
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