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Have you seen her? Police in Georgia searching for 14-year-old girl not seen in more than a year
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Above video: Your Tuesday headlines. Police in Georgia need your help finding a missing teenage girl. Taylor Brown, 14, disappeared back on February 6, 2023 after last being seen in Columbus. The Columbus Police Department reissued a notice Tuesday in hopes of finding her. Taylor is...
24 Georgia students awarded National Merit Scholarships
Twenty-four additional Georgia residents have been awarded National Merit Scholarships financed by colleges and universities. The recent grads join the list of 3,700 Merit Scholarships awarded by 149 colleges and universities announced in June. College-sponsored awards provide between $500 and $2,000 annually for up to four years of undergraduate study at the institution financing the […] The post 24 Georgia students awarded National Merit Scholarships appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta.
Bottom Line: Former BLM director signs up to lobby for wetlands defense
Environment Cassidy and Associates registered to lobby on issues related to the Okefenokee Swamp for the Southern Environmental Law Center. The swamp spans 438,000 acres across the Florida-Georgia border, and a majority of it is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness, but the Southern Environmental Law Center is pushing back…
Georgia Power reports 1,300 people without power in Manchester
MANCHESTER, Ga. (WRBL) — According to Georgia Power, approximately 1,300 people in the Manchester area are experiencing power outages. The outage area can be seen in the picture below. Georgia Power is aware of the outage and say they are working to establish an estimated restoration time. WRBL will keep you updated when new details […]
Victorious Georgia Woman Wins $90K Solar Panel Arbitration Case (video)
Georgia Woman Stuck with Defective Solar Panels Wins Arbitration Case. Stephanie Parker, a resident of Byron, Georgia, was left with an $89,000 bill for a non-functional solar panel system installed by a company that later went out of business. The company, initially known as Power Home Solar and later as Pink Energy, went bankrupt, leaving Parker to deal with the finance company, GoodLeap.
DOE announces nearly $2B to convert facilities for electric vehicles
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $1.7 billion in grants to help convert 11 shuttered or at-risk auto manufacturing and assembly facilities. The facilities are across eight states – Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, and Virginia – and will retool or retrofit 11 existing motor vehicle manufacturing facilities and will […] The post DOE announces nearly $2B to convert facilities for electric vehicles appeared first on Transportation Today.
As discrimination complaints soar, parents of disabled students wait for help
Sam is a bespectacled 6-year-old with a winning smile and a penchant for dinosaurs, as evidenced by the roaring Tyrannosaurus rex on the back of his favorite shirt. “He loves anything big, and powerful, and scary,” says his mother, Tabitha. Sam grins mischievously as he puts his hands together in a circle — the American Sign Language word for “ball.” He’s telling Tabitha he wants to start his day in the colorful ball pit in a corner of his playroom in their home in central Georgia.
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