Former state employee sentenced in fraud scheme
ATLANTA - A former Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency (GVRA) counselor has been sentenced to five years in prison for creating fake students with non-existent disabilities and illnesses in a scheme to steal more than $1.3 million. Karen C. Lyke and...
Obama stumps for Warnock – again
ATLANTA – Former President Barack Obama returned to Atlanta Thursday for the second time in a month to press Georgians to turn out and vote for Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock one more time. Warnock is running against Republican challenger Herschel...
Atlanta to host first college football championship game under expanded playoffs
ATLANTA - Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium will host the first college football national championship game under an expanded playoff format in 2025, the College Football Playoff’s Board of Managers announced Thursday. The two surviving teams in a 12-team field will...
Georgia getting two new college and career academies
ATLANTA - Georgia is adding two college and career academies to the 55 already serving more than 45,000 high school students across the state, Gov. Brian Kemp announced Thursday. The Technical College System of Georgia’s governing board has approved $3 million in...
Georgia to receive $250 million in high-speed broadband grants
ATLANTA - Georgia’s two U.S. senators have landed $250 million in federal pandemic relief funds to expand high-speed internet access across the state. Broadband providers in 33 primarily rural counties will be eligible to apply for grants through the program. The...
New dirty dozen report highlights how Georgians have acted to protect state’s waterways
The Chattahoochee River (photo: Rebecca Grapevine) ATLANTA – Growing up, Linda Smith enjoyed swimming in the Canoochee River and resting on one of its white sandbars near her family home. But by the 1990s, she and her family could no longer swim there because the...
Georgia lawmakers shelve controversial proposals on electric vehicles
ATLANTA - A legislative study committee looking for ways to help accommodate an expected increase in electric vehicles plying Georgia highways approved a series of wide-ranging recommendations Wednesday. But the lawmakers either tabled or defeated proposals on some of...
First bill of next year’s General Assembly session targets Georgia’s abortion ban
ATLANTA – The first bill prefiled for the 2023 legislative session takes aim at one of the hottest political topics in Georgia, a law that bans abortions at around six weeks of pregnancy. House Bill 1 (HB 1) would require the state to pay for many of the costs...