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Survivors of deadly collapse at Georgia dock seek state's help for funerals, counseling
Read full article: Survivors of deadly collapse at Georgia dock seek state's help for funerals, counselingSurvivors of a deadly walkway collapse at a state-operated ferry dock in Georgia say state officials should help them pay for funerals for the seven people killed as well as medical bills and counseling for those who lived.
Trump praises Russia's military record in argument to stop funding Ukraine's fight
Read full article: Trump praises Russia's military record in argument to stop funding Ukraine's fightDonald Trump is again criticizing the Biden administration’s financial support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.
Trump calls for 100% tariffs on cars made in Mexico as part of US manufacturing plan
Read full article: Trump calls for 100% tariffs on cars made in Mexico as part of US manufacturing planDonald Trump has pledged to stop U.S. businesses from shipping jobs overseas and to take other countries’ jobs and factories by relying heavily on sweeping tariffs.
Can the city of Savannah fine or jail people for leaving guns in unlocked cars? A judge weighs in
Read full article: Can the city of Savannah fine or jail people for leaving guns in unlocked cars? A judge weighs inA judge is weighing whether a Georgia city can fine or even jail people for leaving guns in unlocked cars.
Hyundai unveils 2025 electric SUVs aiming for broader appeal with improved range, charging options
Read full article: Hyundai unveils 2025 electric SUVs aiming for broader appeal with improved range, charging optionsHyundai is aiming to broaden the appeal of its Ioniq 5 electric SUVs with 2025 models boasting improved battery range and additional charging options.
Harris and Walz reach out to voters in GOP strongholds in southeast Georgia bus tour
Read full article: Harris and Walz reach out to voters in GOP strongholds in southeast Georgia bus tourVice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, dropped in on a high school band practice as part of a two-day bus tour through southeast Georgia.
Forecasters still predict highly active Atlantic hurricane season in mid-season update
Read full article: Forecasters still predict highly active Atlantic hurricane season in mid-season updateFederal forecasters are still predicting a highly active Atlantic hurricane season thanks to near-record sea surface temperatures and the possibility of La Nina.
Tropical rains flood homes in an inland Georgia neighborhood for the second time since 2016
Read full article: Tropical rains flood homes in an inland Georgia neighborhood for the second time since 2016Residents of one Georgia neighborhood are cleaning up homes flooded by tropical weather for the second time in eight years.
Tropical weather brings record rainfall. Experts share how to stay safe in floods.
Read full article: Tropical weather brings record rainfall. Experts share how to stay safe in floods.The extreme weather seen in places across the United States shows it doesn’t take a catastrophic hurricane to cause significant damage.
Tropical Storm Debby is expected to send flooding to the Southeast. Here's how much rain could fall
Read full article: Tropical Storm Debby is expected to send flooding to the Southeast. Here's how much rain could fallThe Debby storm system could cause historic rainfall and flooding in parts of the Southeast, including Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina.
Tropical Storm Debby drenches Southeast with rain, high water as it drifts along the Atlantic coast
Read full article: Tropical Storm Debby drenches Southeast with rain, high water as it drifts along the Atlantic coastTropical Storm Debby has drenched coastal cities in Georgia and South Carolina and is not finished bringing heavy rain to the eastern U.S. Debby was centered just east of Savannah on Tuesday afternoon.
Dutch king and queen get a red-carpet welcome in Georgia, and a chance to show off their dance moves
Read full article: Dutch king and queen get a red-carpet welcome in Georgia, and a chance to show off their dance movesThe king and queen of the Netherlands are taking a day of their U.S. trip to visit Savannah, Georgia — a city that is both a historic gem and a growing powerhouse in global trade.
Endangered right whale floating dead off Georgia is rare species' second fatality since January
Read full article: Endangered right whale floating dead off Georgia is rare species' second fatality since JanuaryGovernment scientists say a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale has been found dead off the coast of Georgia, marking the rare species' second fatality in the past month.
Hyundai is rapidly building its first US electric vehicle plant, with production on track for 2025
Read full article: Hyundai is rapidly building its first US electric vehicle plant, with production on track for 2025Construction of Hyundai's first U.S. plant dedicated to making electric vehicles is moving quickly.
Live updates | Man killed by tree as Idalia rips through Georgia
Read full article: Live updates | Man killed by tree as Idalia rips through GeorgiaThe Florida county sheriff where Hurricane Idalia made landfall as a Category 3 storm says so far there have been no reported deaths or serious injuries.
Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic square
Read full article: Savannah picks emancipated Black woman to replace name of slavery advocate on historic squareLeaders of Georgia's oldest city have made history by voting to name one of Savannah's treasured downtown squares for a Black woman who taught formerly enslaved people to read and write.
Rapper Quando Rondo is barred from driving, must take drug tests while awaiting trial on bond
Read full article: Rapper Quando Rondo is barred from driving, must take drug tests while awaiting trial on bondA Georgia judge says rapper Quando Rondo can no longer drive and must undergo drug testing if he wants to stay out of jail while awaiting trial on gang and drug charges.
Rapper Quando Rondo crashes car while awaiting trial. Prosecutors want him back in jail
Read full article: Rapper Quando Rondo crashes car while awaiting trial. Prosecutors want him back in jailProsecutors in Georgia want rapper Quando Rondo back in jail after he crashed a car while awaiting trial on gang and drug charges.
`Insufficient support' blamed for courthouse floor collapse
Read full article: `Insufficient support' blamed for courthouse floor collapseA federal agency says there was “insufficient support” beneath part of an upper floor that collapsed during renovations on the historic federal courthouse in Savannah, Georgia.
Basketball legend Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, dies at 73
Read full article: Basketball legend Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, dies at 73Larry “Gator” Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, has died.
Georgia city strips 170-year-old honor from slavery advocate
Read full article: Georgia city strips 170-year-old honor from slavery advocateLeaders of Georgia's oldest city have voted to strip the name of a former vice president who advocated for slavery from a public square named in his honor more than 170 years ago.
Police: Teen saw father shoot, kill mother in California
Read full article: Police: Teen saw father shoot, kill mother in CaliforniaThe Southern California teenager who was killed this week alongside her father in a shootout with law enforcement along an interstate east of Los Angeles was with him a day earlier when he fatally shot her mother.
Police uncertain if girl killed in shootout was abducted
Read full article: Police uncertain if girl killed in shootout was abductedAuthorities say the Southern California man who was accused of killing his estranged wife and abducting their 15-year-old daughter had been living with the teenager out of his pickup truck and hotels for weeks before the violence.
Residents clear storm debris as more severe weather looms
Read full article: Residents clear storm debris as more severe weather loomsFollowing violent storms blamed for killing at least three people, Southerners cleared fallen trees from roadways and began cleaning up debris from homes and buildings smashed by suspected tornadoes as forecasters warned more violent weather was likely on the way.
Ships are sitting offshore containing items that we desperately need -- what can be done?
Read full article: Ships are sitting offshore containing items that we desperately need -- what can be done?If you’re in the Jacksonville, Florida area, you’ve likely seen the logjam of container ships sitting idly offshore. The vessels are packed with items destined for store shelves -- and they’re things business owners and consumers desperately need delivered.
US economy grew 5.7% in 2021 in rebound from 2020, fastest since 1984
Read full article: US economy grew 5.7% in 2021 in rebound from 2020, fastest since 1984The U.S. economy grew last year at the fastest pace since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, bouncing back with resilience from 2020′s brief but devastating coronavirus recession.
Cargo surge pushes Port of Savannah to 5.6M container record
Read full article: Cargo surge pushes Port of Savannah to 5.6M container recordThe Port of Savannah is reporting record cargo volumes for 2021 thanks to a surge in trade that saw its container yard cramped for space and ships waiting at sea.
News headlines of 2021: How much do you remember? Take this quiz to find out.
Read full article: News headlines of 2021: How much do you remember? Take this quiz to find out.We might not be able to claim that 2021 was *the* wildest year in recent history (2020 will likely get that credit for quite some time), but it might be a close second.
US trade deficit hits record of $80.9 billion in September
Read full article: US trade deficit hits record of $80.9 billion in SeptemberThe U.S. trade deficit hit an all-time high of $80.9 billion in September as American exports fell sharply while imports, even with supply chain problems at American ports, kept climbing.
US slightly revises up its GDP estimate for Q2 to 6.7%
Read full article: US slightly revises up its GDP estimate for Q2 to 6.7%The U.S. economy expanded at a 6.7% annual pace from April through June, the Commerce Department said Thursday, slightly upgrading its estimate of last quarter’s growth in the face of a resurgence of COVID-19 in the form of the delta variant.
Morning Briefing Jan. 5, 2021: Georgia Senate runoff elections today, COVID plasma donations needed, woman reported missing New Year’s Day found dead
Read full article: Morning Briefing Jan. 5, 2021: Georgia Senate runoff elections today, COVID plasma donations needed, woman reported missing New Year’s Day found deadCOVID-19 plasma shortage: Donors could win trip to Super Bowl next yearThe American Red Cross is in search of COVID-19 plasma donors. Woman reported missing on New Year’s Day found deadA woman who was reported missing on New Year’s Day has been found dead in a field behind a Southgate apartment complex. On Saturday, the state reported a total of 497,127 cases and 12,598 deaths. New COVID-19 cases are slowing but deaths remain high in Michigan. According to Johns Hopkins University, more than 20.2 million cases have been reported across the country as of Jan. 2.
Here we go again: What to expect as Georgia counts votes
Read full article: Here we go again: What to expect as Georgia counts votesPerdue got about 88,000 more votes than Ossoff in the general election, but a Libertarian candidate’s 115,000 votes kept him from topping 50%, which is required to win. Warnock got 1.6 million votes, while Loeffler got nearly 1.3 million and Republican U.S. Rep. Doug Collins placed third with nearly a million votes. No ballots, including absentee ballots received in advance of Election Day, can be counted until the polls close. Second, Republican voters have been more likely to vote in person, either on Election Day or during the early voting period. In November, more than 5 percent of Georgia’s votes were counted after noon on the day after Election Day.
Masked workers start presidential hand tally in Georgia
Read full article: Masked workers start presidential hand tally in GeorgiaOfficials sort ballots during an audit at the Floyd County administration building in Rome, Ga. on Friday morning, Nov. 13, 2020. Election officials in Georgias 159 counties are undertaking a hand tally of the presidential race that stems from an audit required by state law. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)ATLANTA – Masked election workers in teams of two began counting ballots Friday in counties across Georgia, a hand tally of the presidential race that stems from an audit required by a new state law. Across the state, audit teams worked with batches of paper ballots, dividing them into piles for each candidate, before counting each pile by hand. But critics have accused him of caving to Trump after the president's campaign and state Republicans requested a hand recount.
Group seeks to combat misleading information online
Read full article: Group seeks to combat misleading information online(AP Photo/Russ Bynum)RIO RANCHO, N.M. – A group of U.S. Black scholars, activists and writers has launched a new project they say will combat misleading information online around voting, reparations and immigration, supporters announced Friday. The newly formed National Black Cultural Information Trust seeks to counter fake social media accounts and Twitter trolls that often discourage Black voters from participating in elections or seek to turn Black voters against other communities of color. The effort isn't meant to silence groups that are behind any hashtag but counter “bad actors” who are using the hashtags to disseminate false information, Aiwuyor said. The founders also took issue with the National Black Cultural Information Trust on Twitter after the announcement that the project would monitor the #ADOS hashtag for xenophobic comments and false information. But also to measure the plunder of the ADOS community from 1619 to today.”Members of the National Black Cultural Information Trust plan to monitor social media posts and flag those spreading misleading and fake stories.
History, mistrust spurring Black early voters in Georgia
Read full article: History, mistrust spurring Black early voters in GeorgiaKhani Morgan, wearing a mask and face shield to guard against the coronavirus, waits in line to vote early on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, in Savannah, Ga. Black people are going to the polls by the thousands and waiting in lines for hours to vote early in Georgia. Morgan says her great-grandmother who was born a slave talked about the importance of voting, so "I won't let anything get in the way of me and this opportunity." (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)
Man who filmed Arbery shooting video charged in his slaying
Read full article: Man who filmed Arbery shooting video charged in his slayingSAVANNAH, Ga. The Georgia man whose cellphone video of Ahmaud Arberys fatal shooting helped reignite the case was charged with murder Thursday, making him the third person arrested more than two months after the slaying. Arbery was slain Feb. 23 when a white father and son armed themselves and pursued him after spotting the 25-year-old black man running in their neighborhood. Gregory McMichael told police he suspected Arbery was a burglar and that Arbery attacked his son before being shot. The video shows Arbery run around the truck to the right before he cuts back in front of it. Arbery can be seen punching a man holding what appears to be a shotgun, who then fires a third shot point-blank.
Buckingham Palace Returns Lost Toy Monkey to Little Girl Along With New Friend
Read full article: Buckingham Palace Returns Lost Toy Monkey to Little Girl Along With New FriendWhen Harriet the toy monkey went missing from her tiny human, Savannah, during a recent trip to Buckingham Palace, the 5-year-old Australian was devastated. "She sneaked out of daddy's bag and she goes into the garden shed," Savannah, who takes Harriet on adventures all over the world, told APTN. After their trip back to Adelaide minus one, Savannah and some kindergarten friends decided to write a letter to Buckingham Palace. The palace had, indeed, found Harriet and sent her home. Now Harriet even has a new friend a toy corgi named Rex, which the palace sent along so Harriet wouldn't get lonely on her trip home.