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Georgia’s unemployment rate has now hit double-digits. The mark of 10.1 percent for June is the highest ever recorded in the state, and represents more than 480,000 people looking for work. State...
The Department of Defense says two members of the Georgia National Guard's 48th Infantry Brigade have been killed in action in Afghanistan. The Pentagon says the two were killed on Monday....
A Georgia State University professor and a former student accuse the institution of being anti-Muslim. They say GSU retaliated against them after they complained about racist remarks from faculty ...
The world’s largest 10-K running event is Saturday morning in Atlanta. But the reach of Georgia’s famous Peachtree Road Race also extends to overseas war zones. In Atlanta, it’s now 40 years th...
The head of Georgia State University's Middle East Institute has resigned, claiming the university mishandled a discrimination complaint from a Muslim doctoral student. Dona Stewart stepped down ...
The Associated Press has learned that fewer than half of Veterans Affairs clinics given a surprise inspection last month followed proper standards for colonoscopies and other minimally invasive pro...
The number of first time unemployment insurance claims has slowed over this same time last year.State Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond says that may be an indicator of stability in the state's...
Georgia’s court battle over photo I.D.’s at the polls has ended. The U.S. Supreme court announced today that it will not to hear the case. That means a lower court ruling with stand, which says ...
Authorities say rapper T.I. has been booked into a federal prison in Arkansas to serve a year and a day sentence on a weapons charge. T.I., whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., was supposed t...
Federal justice officials have ended monitoring of Georgia's Department of Juvenile Justice. The announcement was made this morning by Governor Sonny Perdue and the state's Juvenile Justice Commis...
A mailroom worker at the state Department of Revenue has admitted she helped take money orders sent in by Georgians to pay their taxes. Constance Morgan, 44, pled guilty to one count of conspira...
Savannah's Elba Island liquified natural gas terminal is set to receive 7-cargoes of the super-cooled gas known as L-N-G this month. Reuters news is reporting the shipments. Seven-tankers to Elb...
State emergency management officials say it will be next week at the earliest to determine how much damage was done by flooding in Georgia over the past two weeks. Officials with the Georgia Emerg...
The endangered North American right whales calving off the Georgia and Florida coast had a record year with whale observers in the region reporting 38 new calves spotted. The count started in Nov...
Democrat Dubose Porter has announced he will run for Governor. The Georgia House Minority Leader announced in his hometown paper, the Dublin Courier Herald, that he will seek the governorship in 20...
South Carolina may refuse a portion of its economic stimulus dollars, and that could mean an extra $20 million for Georgia.The money would likely go to schools and law enforcement here.The report c...
Money apparently has been found to keep nurses in Georgia schools. Budget writers in the House Tuesday came up with $29-million for the school nursing program, with some of that money coming from ...
Georgia’s average price for a gallon of regular unleaded is down 3 cents from a week ago--to a mark of $1.78 average. The AAA Fuel Gauge Report reports the current state average is down 5 cents fr...
Restoring electricity to thousands of Georgia residents is still the challenge this morning in the wake of the weekend’s winter storms that moved through. Georgia EMC says there are still 13,000 of...
Snow falling on construction equipment in midtown Atlanta, at the uncompleted 14th St. bridge over the I-75/85 connector on Sunday, Mar. 1, 2009. (Photo: Dave Bender)Metro Atlanta, and much of nort...
State lawmakers are holding back a bill from governor's desk that keeps homeowners' tax grants for this year. But Governor Sonny Perdue says finding the money to fund the grants will come at a pric...
A major Kia Motors supplier has signed a deal with Georgia’s Quick Start training program to prepare hundreds of production workers.Korea's Sewon, state and local officials attended the agreement c...
Walter F. George Dam on the Chattahoochee River in southwest Georgia, near the borders of Alabama and Florida. (Dave Bender/file)Florida and Alabama are asking a federal court to stop the Corps of ...
For the fourth year in a row, Georgia's main airport has been named the nation's busiest. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport let the country in the number of takeoffs and landings in...
Georgia officials are still trying to determine the cause of the salmonella outbreak that's been linked to six deaths and more than 150 product recalls.A crack in a piece of equipment that processe...
During budget hearings at the capitol today Governor Perdue said he went through his budget like a surgeon cutting out everything that's not needed. He says he is not banking on extra federal help...
Democrats in the Georgia State Legislature opened the first day of the 2009 session with a sign of unity. With Republicans holding a majority of seats in the House, Republican Speaker Glenn Richard...
Georgia's largest ethanol plant is closing for a week following an accident. First United Ethanol on Camilla in south Georgia says a ruptured evaporator joint caused a major steam blow off Tuesday...
An update now on the underground explosion in downtown Savannah last month. Georgia Power says it's expediting replacing 50- to 80-year old electrical cables beneath Savannah's streets. The Dece...
Retail gasoline prices across Georgia jumped a penny overnight as OPEC production cutbacks sent oil prices rising.A survey from AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express shows a gal...
The hope of Georgia Tech's football team to complete a 10-win football season met disaster Wednesday night. In their worst defeat in 3 years, Tech was buried in a 38-3 loss to LSU in the Chick-Fil-...
Georgia drivers will get a New Year’s gift at the gas pump starting Thursday as the state fuel tax drops by about 4 cents. Every six months the state Department of Revenue resets the gas tax--the ...
Deputies in Bibb County are about to get a little high-tech help from a device that will allow them to scan license plates into a crime database at a rate of one plate per second. The Automated ...
The vast economic crisis has left scores of Georgia's houses empty, its banks shuttered and sent thousands of its residents searching for jobs even as its unemployment rate balloons to heights not ...
Federal Aviation Administration officials say a brief outage of the ground radar at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Friday caused delays of about an hour on arriving and departi...
A new interstate interchange in Troup County and related new roads will provide direct access to the new Kia Motors of Georgia plant in West Point. The interchange at Exit 6 of Interstate 85 was c...
Georgia was the ninth fastest growing state over the past year. New Census data details the fastest growing states by population between July 1, 2007, and July 1, 2008. The data shows Georgia gai...
Exposed by erosion at the edge of a crumbling bluff, the pit discovered beneath 2 feet of sandy dirt at first appeared to be a grave just long and deep enough to bury a human body.Excavation by ar...
A Gwinnett County judge has blocked a new trash disposal plan - leaving 180,000 households in the county's unincorporated areas wondering who will pick up their garbage. Superior Court Judge Micha...
A woman was arrested Tuesday for contempt of court in west Georgia after she refused to take off her hajib, the headscarf worn by Muslim women. Chris Womack with the Douglasville Police Departmen...
Plans for a corn ethanol plant in South Georgia have been tabled. The plant in Turner County will be delayed because of the nation's credit crunch. The president of the Georgia Alternative Energ...
The federal government's efforts to re-process spent nuclear fuel from the nation's commercial nuclear reactors appears to be in jeopardy.The U.S. House of Representatives energy and water developm...
A judge is set to decide whether to sentence courthouse gunman Brian Nichols to life in prison with or without parole. Fulton County Superior Court Judge James Bodiford declared a deadlock in the t...
People in a metro Atlanta county could be fined for not recycling. Gwinnett County may start charging non-recyclers $500. A new solid waste ordinance penalizes those who throw recyclable items i...
Governor Sonny Perdue joined lottery chief Margaret DeFrancisco, to celebrate the lottery's transfer of more than 10 billion dollars to the state. Perdue says it was the vision of former governor Z...
A Fulton County judge will rule this morning on whether the state must require voters to present a photo ID when casting ballots in Tuesday's primaries. Secretary of State Karen Handel told the ju...
Three leaders of an Albany street gang are headed to state prison. Authorities said the three led a gang called "CME Rattlers." They are 18-,19-, and 20-years-old. In 2007, a task force targeted...
Senator Barack Obama was in Georgia for a fundraiser and a town hall meeting to highlight his plans to spur the US economy.A crowd of 2700 supporters greeted the Senator at a suburban Atlanta highs...
The Georgia Ports Authority is backing a proposal to deepen the Savannah harbor. Port officials say deepening the Savannah harbor from its current 42 feet to 48 feet accommodate ships carryin...
Presumed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is finalizing plans to travel to Georgia next week. It would be the Illinois Senator’s second trip to the state since early June, when he went...
The state’s newest public four-year college will hold its first commencement ceremony tomorrow. Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle will be there to deliver a commencement address to graduates of Geor...
The Atlanta City Council has approved an additional citation surcharge in order to combat rising fuel prices.The proposal is similar to a surcharge approved by the North Metro Atlanta city, Holly S...
Atlanta Braves--The Braves on the final stop of their four-city road trip lost to the Rangers in Texas last night, 7-5. Starting pitcher Tim Hudson and the Braves trailed 6-0 after 5 innings--Hudso...
Georgia's Democratic leadership is calling for an investigation into Republican Superintendent Kathy Cox's handling of state-mandated tests this year.38-percent of Georgia's 8th graders did not pas...
The University of Georgia baseball team won its opening game in the College World Series Saturday night with a comeback 7-4 win over top-ranked Miami in Omaha, Nebraska. Trailing 4-3 going into the...
A city in Cherokee County is trying to add to speeding fines to help pay for fuel. Holly Springs officials will decide next week whether a 12 dollar fee will be applied to 100 to 200 dollar speedi...
Atlanta Braves--The struggles continue for the Atlanta Braves, as they lost in Chicago again last night to the Cubs, 7-2. The Braves were sent to their 5th straight loss. Jeff Bennett was called ...
An outbreak of Salmonella bacteria has stores pulling tomatoes from their shelves nationwide. Over one hundred people in the US have gotten sick with salmonella bacteria, and the Federal Drug Admin...
A panel of educators is wrapping up a series of meetings today aimed at tackling problems with Georgia's social studies curriculum. State schools superintendent Kathy Cox hastily formed the commi...
Governor Sonny Perdue has asked President George Bush to declare north Georgia county a federal disaster area.People in Cherokee county are recovering from the May 20th severe thunderstorms and a t...
Schools around the state are bracing for a surge in summer school students after a high rate of failure on this year's standardized math test.That could cost money.The Georgia Department of Educati...
Heavy thunderstorms and possible tornadoes on May 20, caused some $40 million in insured damages in Cherokee and north Fulton counties, according to Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John Oxen...
A significant court case questioning the use of sludge as fertilizer on farms will stand, without protest from federal officials.The U.S. Department of Agriculture will not appeal a ruling that it ...
Today is the last day for victims of the tornados in March to apply for federal aid and to file their federal income taxes. Residents in Fulton, Dekalb, Bartow, Burke, Floyd, Polk and Jefferson cou...
Michael DeMell, environmental consultant to Cumberland Harbour development, stands on a newly constructed dock that comes off a deep water lot in St. Marys, Ga. The marina and housing development t...
The state of has lost the latest round in the on-going battle over water. A U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington has declined Georgia's petition to reconsider a recent ruling that restricts the sta...
Georgia's Republican Party convention meets this weekend in Columbus. Some 5,000 GOP faithful from across the state are expected to pack the Columbus Civic Center.They'll pick half the state's dele...
Muscogee County in western Georgia is stopping a free school breakfast program, citing spiraling food costs. The Muscogee County School District started the “Breakfast for All” pilot program last s...
Join host Rickey Bevington tonight for Georgia Gazette. How Georgia is enticing the entertainment industry. And, NPR’s Cokie Roberts on the women who shaped America. Plus, the resurrection of fo...
Photos of the twister's aftermath along Eisenhower Parkway near Pio Nono Avenue, one of Macon's business districts. (All photos: Josephine Bennet, WMUM 89.7 FM, Macon)Thousands of Georgia residents...
A suburban Atlanta county is seeking protection from its sheriff. Clayton County attorneys accuse Sheriff Victor Hill of objectionable actions, policies and practices. The filing seeks to protect...
Georgia tax collections are up after months of sluggish returns. State money managers say they were up 34% in April. But Governor Sonny Perdue was quick to say that tax collections later this ye...
Atlanta Braves--It was a 5th straight win recorded by the Braves last night in Atlanta, after the 5-2 decision over the San Diego Padres. Tied 2-2 in the bottom of the 7th inning, newcomer Greg No...
Drought is easing in Georgia. Environmental officials are relaxing some of the water restrictions. That includes calling off an order that utilities in 61 north Georgia counties reduce water use ...
Today a jury sentenced a convicted murderer to death. Jerry Jones pleaded guilty to murdering his infant daughter and three of his ex-girlfriend's relatives in Ranger in northwest Georgia in 2004...
The body of staff sergeant Shaun Whitehead is expected to arrive in Georgia by midweek, but so far funeral arrangements are incomplete, according to Chad Eubanks with Evans-Smith Funeral Home in ...
Much of Georgia is still in an historic drought. With the state entering the hot season, and winter rains having failed to replenish many of the state's northern reservoirs, the chance to undo last...
A federal judge has denied a request from the National Football League that he overturn an earlier ruling which allows suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick to keep $16.5 million in ro...
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