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Augusta experts share important warning signs of human trafficking
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - Georgia ranks sixth in the nation for sex trafficking, and local experts say Richmond County sees more child sex trafficking than anywhere else in the state. For a problem that is growing not only in Georgia but nationwide, experts say there’s a huge misconception surrounding human...
'There is little more important than this': Federal funding will bring more emergency vehicles to Central Georgia
MACON, Ga. — More mobile medicine will roll into Central Georgia soon. Healthcare workers at Atrium Health Navient call it an "E.R. on wheels." Thanks to federal funding, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff said more vehicles will help EMTs help more people. "There is little more important than this," Ossoff...
Some Georgia residents starting to see cicadas | Pictures
ATLANTA — It's the summer blockbuster playing right outside your door -- cicada-geddon, cicadapalooza, cicadafest 2024; whatever you want to call it, the bugs are coming and they're going to be loud. This year in particular is generating such a hoopla because two periodical broods are emerging from underground...
GPB Morning Headlines for April 23, 2024
A federal judge has found leaders of the Georgia Department of Corrections in contempt of a 2019 agreement GDC made with attorneys for people incarcerated in the state’s most extreme solitary confinement unit. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in congressionally directed spending is making its way down to Macon,...
Governor signs tax cut legislation into law
AUGUSTA – Gov. Brian Kemp, accompanied by First Lady Marty Kemp, members of the General Assembly, and local and state leaders, signed HB 1015, which accelerates the largest state income tax cut in Georgia history, into law at a ceremony in Augusta. Sponsored by Rep. Lauren McDonald and co-sponsored by Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones, Chairman Shaw Blackmon, Reps. Soo Hong, Will Wade and Matthew Gambill and carried in the Senate by Sen. Bo Hatchett, builds upon HB 1437, which provided for a step down...
Popular Georgia beach town overrun by ‘Orange Crush’ fighting, chaos, video shows
You have reached your maximum number of articles. Log in or create an account FREE of charge to continue reading. Please enter a valid email address. Georgia’s Tybee Island was packed with co-ed party seekers during the annual Orange Crush Festival, where videos of wild brawls went viral on social media.
Crew members injured in crash on Georgia set of Eddie Murphy Amazon MGM movie 'The Pickup'
ATLANTA — Several crew members were injured and two were hospitalized when a car and truck collided during shooting of the Eddie Murphy film “The Pickup" from Amazon MGM Studios, the studio and a person close to the production said Tuesday. A studio spokesperson said in a statement...
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