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Georgia lawmakers end annual session without settling conflict on voting machines
3+ hour, 26+ min ago (405+ words) State Rep. Victor Anderson, R-Cornelia, speaks at a House Governmental Affairs Committee meeting at the Paul D. Coverdell Legislative Office Building in Atlanta on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, to consider legislation to push back the deadline to stop counting votes with QR codes....
With their candidates losing in metro Atlanta, Georgia GOP seeks to remove party labels
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (412+ words) State Sen. John Albers, a Republican from the Atlanta suburb of Roswell who pushed the bill, said he believed it was needed to promote public safety, even though the counties" elected sheriffs will continue to be elected under party labels…...
A Georgia appeals court rules Fulton County can reject GOP election board picks
1+ week, 6+ day ago (437+ words) Republican Jason Frazier, a Fulton County resident, speaks during public comment at a State Election Board meeting at the Capitol in Atlanta, May 7, 2024. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP File) The state Court of Appeals found that while elected leaders…...
Trump officials announce 10-gigawatt data center, gas plants for former Ohio uranium site
1+ week, 6+ day ago (475+ words) The Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County " now being branded as the "PORTS Technology Campus" " is expected to include a 10-gigawatt data center and up to 10 gigawatts of new power generation, including 9.2 gigawatts of natural gas generation, according to…...
Georgia suspends fuel tax, but other states may not follow
1+ week, 6+ day ago (661+ words) Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed into law a 60-day suspension of the state's 33-cents-per-gallon tax on gas and 37-cents-per-gallon tax on diesel. Motorists are likely to start getting relief in the coming days as the price cuts trickle through from…...
Saint Louis pounds Georgia 102-77 in March Madness as Dion Brown dominates at the rim with 18 points
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (470+ words) Amari McCottry added 13 points and nine rebounds, while Robbie Avila had 12 points, five rebounds and five assists for the ninth-seeded Billikens in their first March Madness win since 2014. "I thought we played super hard," Saint Louis coach Josh Schertz said....
Meteorite hunters scour Ohio for fragments of 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (708+ words) A suspected meteor that fell from the sky over the Cleveland area shook homes and startled residents who heard a boom that some compared to an explosion. People hundreds of miles away reported seeing the bright fireball at about 9 a.m. Tuesday....
Georgia was going to dump voting machines that Trump hates until things got complicated
2+ week, 1+ day ago (574+ words) State Rep. Victor Anderson, R-Cornelia, speaks at a House Governmental Affairs Committee meeting at the Paul D. Coverdell Legislative Office Building in Atlanta on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, to consider legislation to push back the deadline to stop counting votes with QR codes....
After years of growth, Georgia’s film industry hits a painful reset
3+ week, 23+ hour ago (1053+ words) The 48-year-old digital imaging technician moved from Indiana to Georgia in 2017 as studios " lured by generous tax credits " turned Atlanta into the "Hollywood of the South," the backdrop for hundreds of productions like "The Hunger Games," "Stranger Things" and more…...
Georgia voters choosing a successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene in US House
3+ week, 3+ day ago (452+ words) Democratic candidate Shawn Harris, right, sings along with a song written about his campaign during a barbecue at the Chattanooga County Agricultural Center, in Summerville, Ga., Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (Matt Hamilton/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File) With top candidates…...