A Georgia dog is believed to be the second in the country to positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, the state Department of Public Health said Wednesday. The owners of the 6-year-old mixed breed dog tested positive for the coronavirus, the DPH said. But the dog did not have any evidence of respiratory disease.…
Georgia officials issued a warning Saturday about potential health problems related to the Saharan dust cloud hovering over the state, telling residents to protect themselves.
Georgia House and Senate leaders agreed Thursday on a final budget for the upcoming fiscal year that cuts $950 million in basic k-12 school funding but doesn’t force state agencies to furlough staffers. That is big news for tens of thousands of state workers, some of whom were expecting to have to take weeks off…
A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday said three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was shot dead while running in a residential neighborhood in February, have been indicted by a grand jury on murder charges.The three men — Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William R. “Roddie” Bryan — each…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…