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Marjorie Taylor Greene Promotes “Measles Parties” for Kids Amid Deadly Outbreaks
AlterNet - Sun Mar 9, 2025
Measles can cause brain swelling and pneumonia. More»

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Confirmed in Commercial Poultry Flock in Georgia, All Poultry Activities in Georgia Suspended
GA Department of Agriculture - Fri Jan 17, 2025
Today, the Georgia Department of Agriculture and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service confirmed a positive case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in a commercial poultry operation located in Elbert County, Georgia. More»

Bird Flock Tests Positive for Bird Flu in Atlanta
WSB-TV - Mon Jan 13, 2025
CLAYTON COUNTY, Georgia — A case of avian influenza has been confirmed in a small backyard flock of birds in Georgia. More»

GBI Conducting Autopsy After Rockdale Soil and Water Supervisor Collapses at State Capitol, Dies Shortly After
WXIA-TV - Wed Oct 9, 2024
ATLANTA, Ga — The Rockdale County soil and water supervisor died on Tuesday after collapsing while around the Georgia State Capitol for a public meeting about the BioLab chemical plume. More»

Plume From Chemical Plant Fire Reaches Atlanta
New York Times - Tue Oct 1, 2024
Officials said the plume was not a threat to the city, but schools were closed near Conyers, Georgia, where a fire at a chemical plant started on Sunday. More»

Elementary Student in LaGrange Charged for Bringing 'gel-blaster' to School
WAGA-TV - Thu Sep 19, 2024
LAGRANGE, GA - A LaGrange elementary school student was charged on Wednesday with bringing a weapon onto campus. More»

Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud
WABE-TV - Mon Mar 25, 2024
ATLANTA, Georgia - A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud. More»

Georgia Hospital in ‘Immediate Jeopardy’ After Discharging Man Too Early
WGCL-TV - Tue Apr 5, 2022
CONYERS, GEORGIA - Jerry was found feet away from hospital property unconscious with tubes still sticking out of his body - His loved ones say he was discharged because his insurance ran out. More»

'Nuclear Detonation' Response Simulation to be Held in Atlanta
WXIA-TV - Thu Mar 10, 2022
ATLANTA, Georgia — Atlanta-Fulton County Emergency Management Agency is participating Thursday in a "nuclear detonation" simulation with US Northern Command. More»

Metro Atlanta Doctors Paint a Bleak Picture of Omicron's Toll
Marietta Daily Journal - Sat Jan 22, 2022
As they did five months ago when the delta variant was ravaging Georgia, doctors from six of metro Atlanta's largest healthcare providers joined forces Thursday to pull back the curtain on the toll omicron is now taking on their hospitals. More»

Tornadoes From Rare Supercell Caused Damage in Georgia
CNN - Sun Jan 2, 2022
CONYERS, Georgia - Rare "low precipitation" (LP) supercells spawned tornadoes across at least two Georgia counties on New Year's Eve. More»

Infamous anti-vaxxer Marjorie Taylor Greene owns stock in the three major vaccine companies
Daily Kos - Thu Dec 23, 2021
Perhaps it will come as no surprise to you that despite the fact that Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene rails against the COVID-19 vaccine, she doesn’t mind making money from it. More»

Atlanta VA Begins Processing Mail That Sat for Ten Months Following Investigation
WSB-TV - Tue Sep 21, 2021
ATLANTA, Georgia — Thousands of pieces of mail were moved to a basement at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center and left there for months. More»

Anti-vaxxers forced a mobile COVID-19 vaccine site in Georgia to shut down after threatening health workers
Business Insider - Wed Sep 1, 2021
Georgia's health department chief said workers at state COVID-19 vaccination events have been the victims of "threats" — and that one mobile inoculation site had to shut down due to "bullying". More»

Front-Runner For Country's Dumbest Governor Signs Order Letting Georgia Businesses Ignore Covid-19 Rules
CNN - Fri Aug 20, 2021
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed an executive order Thursday allowing businesses to disregard local rules regarding Covid-19 - a move decried by Democrats, as coronavirus cases in the state rise. More»

Twelve Year Old Boy with Autism Charged with a Felony in Georgia
WGCL-TV - Wed Aug 4, 2021
COBB COUNTY, Georgia - A Cobb County 12-year-old student faces felony charges after threatening to burn people and property at his school. More»

Video shows Atlanta officer kick handcuffed woman in the head
WSB-TV - Tue Jul 27, 2021
ATLANTA, Georgia - The Atlanta Police Department confirmed Monday that a sergeant in their department is on unpaid suspension after video posted to social media showed an appeared to show him kicking a woman in the head. More»

Massacre at Asian Massage Parlors Leaves 8 Dead
Yahoo - Tue Mar 16, 2021
ATLANTA, Georgia - A Georgia man who professed a passion for guns and God was in custody on Tuesday night after a string of shootings that police said appeared to target Asian women at massage parlors and left eight people dead. More»

Officials located December recording of Trump call in a trash folder on Georgia investigator's device
CNN - Sun Mar 14, 2021
Officials in the Georgia Secretary of State's Office located a recently released recording of former President Donald Trump's call to a state investigator in a trash folder on her device, a state official familiar with the situation confirmed to CNN. More»

Georgia secretary of state's office opens inquiry into Trump phone call
NBC News - Mon Feb 8, 2021
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's office has opened an investigation into former President Donald Trump's January 2 phone call with Raffensperger, where Trump urged him to overturn the state's election results. More»

Georgia ACLU Published Its 7-Year Study of Republicans' Unconstitutional Voter Disenfranchisement Scheme
Hill Reporter - Mon Sep 7, 2020
The state of Georgia has been quietly and illegally purging hundreds of thousands of valid registered voters from the state rolls for the better half of a decade, according to a blockbuster report from the American Civil Liberties Union, which was commissioned in 2013 by the ACLU and conducted by the Los Angeles-based non-partisan Palast Investigative Fund. More»

Georgia governor files lawsuit to "restrain" Atlanta mayor from talking about face masks
Raw Story - Sun Jul 19, 2020
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) revealed on Sunday that Governor Brian Kemp (R) is trying to use the court system to "silence" her because he opposes the face mask mandate she has put in place. More»

Social Security demands money from Georgia woman from 4 decades ago - when she was still a child
WSB-TV - Thu Jul 9, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia - The Social Security Administration is demanding a Georgia woman should have to pay for a government mistake the agency made more than four decades ago. More»

Georgia governor declares state of emergency and calls up National Guard
CNN - Mon Jul 6, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia - Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Monday declared a state of emergency and activated as many as 1,000 National Guard members. More»

Georgia nurses accuse hospital of manipulating COVID-19 test results
WXIA-TV - Sat Jun 20, 2020
ATHENS, Georgia - The lawsuit filed against Landmark Hospital in Athens has many allegations including nurses being instructed to swab incorrectly to give false results. More»

"Blue Flu" in Atlanta
The Guardian - Thu Jun 18, 2020
Donald Trump has defended the police officer who shot dead Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, as a number of officers called in sick after their colleague was charged with murder. More»

Atlanta Police Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Charged With Felony Murder
NPR - Wed Jun 17, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia - The white Atlanta police officer who shot a 27-year-old black man in the back last week in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant will face a charge of felony murder and 10 other charges, a Georgia county prosecutor announced Wednesday. More»

Atlanta police chief RESIGNS and mayor calls for white cops who shot dead 27-year-old black man Rayshard Brooks to be fired
Daily Mail - Sat Jun 13, 2020
The chief of police in Atlanta has resigned less than 24 hours after cops fatally shot a man whom investigators say grabbed an officer's taser and pointed it as he fled from police. More»

Georgia election disaster condemned as result of deliberate GOP voter suppression: "This is by design"
AlterNet - Wed Jun 10, 2020
Photos of would-be Georgia voters standing - and, in some cases, sitting - in long lines after 11 pm to cast their ballots in the state's primary on Tuesday encapsulated what rights groups and lawmakers decried as a disastrous day for democracy and an entirely predictable result of years of deliberate voter suppression efforts by Republican lawmakers and the US Supreme Court. More»

Front-Runner for Country's Dumbest Governor to Reopen Essential Bowling Alleys, Nail Salons Friday
Vanity Fair - Mon Apr 20, 2020
Brian Kemp seemingly asked for a list of the businesses where people are in closest proximity, a key factor to spreading COVID-19, and said, Let's start with those. More»

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