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Most Georgians support immigration reform
A new poll shows that more than half of Georgians support Immigration Reform. According to Harper Polling, 61-percent of those polled support the plan, 20-percent oppose it and 19-percent are unsure. Pollsters also asked 562 people if they support or oppose a plan that would ensure undocumented immigrants living in ...
Bomb threats test state's evacuation plans
Those state departments effected by Tuesday's bomb threat got to put their emergency evacuation plans into good use. The State Road and Tollway Authority is housed in the same building at 47 Trinity Avenue where the threat was called in and all 55 of its employees had to evacuate. But ...
Cops: Women lead police on chase, leave 2 kids behind
Two women are accused of reaching 100 mph while evading police in three counties Thursday afternoon. Then when the two crashed, both women ran from the car, leaving behind two small children, police said. It started when Cobb County police issued a “lookout” for a fugitive traveling on I-75 northbound ...
4 men accused of $36K worth of vandalism
It all started as four friends hanging out. Add a few beers, maybe a sports game on TV and boredom would set in. The group would walk around the Chapel Hill neighborhood, just looking for something to do, according to Douglasville police. But the “fun” was criminal activity, including at ...
Atheists allowed to donate material to GA State Parks
Visitors to Georgia's state-owned lodges and cabins may soon find more than just Bibles in their bedside tables. The national group American Atheists is planning to take up the governor's invitation to donate their own material. It was a complaint by an atheist that prompted the state to first remove ...
A taste for BBQ leads to an E.coli outbreak in North Ga.
The number of cases reported to the Georgia Department of Public Health has grown to 11, ten in Georgia and one in South Carolina. Ten of those people had eaten at the BBQ Shack in Toccoa earlier this month. Seven people wound up hospitalized for treatment. Several developed complications, but ...
E. coli outbreak reported in northeast Georgia
State health officials said Saturday that a number of people in Stephens County have been infected with E.coli. District 2 Public Health spokesman Dave Palmer confirmed that no source has been identified as the cause of the outbreak that sickened at least seven, although several people have been hospitalized. The ...
New state BUI law takes effect today
As the feds call on states to lower the threshold for drunk driving, Georgia is getting tougher on those who boat under the influence. The new law, which takes effect today, lowers the blood-alcohol level for boat operators to be considered legally drunk from .10 to .08, the same as ...
A "walking" prescription to promote fitness
Your doctor's assistant can now write you a prescription to walk here in Georgia. In an unusual collaboration the Georgia Association of Physicians Assistants and Georgia State Parks are trying to promote fitness in the great outdoors. It's usually five dollars to park your vehicle at Georgia state parks but, with the ...
Former Braves pitcher Rick Camp dead at age 60
Former Braves pitcher Rick Camp died Thursday at his home in Bartow County, authorities said.“Our sympathies go out to his family, friends and former teammates,” the Braves said in a statement Thursday afternoon.Bartow Deputy Coroner Brandon Duncan confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Camp, 60, died Thursday morning at his ...
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