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@lemmy.worldhttps://www.11alive.com/amp/article/news/local/paulding-county-body-slamming-lawsuit-sheriff-ex-deputy/85-125bf12a-9ae1-45c4-b7a2-87cd68112f43
A Paulding County sheriff's deputy seen on video body slamming a man during an arrest is no longer employed by the sheriff's office.
https://www.11alive.com/amp/article/life/food/buc-ees-break-ground-largest-georgia-location/85-b8ad6ddd-1a74-455b-8843-7fce8be3d80b
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-housing-assistance-foster-care
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
https://www.insideedition.com/media/videos/7-soldiers-of-christ-charged-with-murder-of-korean-woman-in-georgia-85409
A Korean community in Georgia is in shock after a woman’s emaciated body was found in the trunk of a car in September.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/26/georgias-congressional-map-violates-voting-rights-act-court-finds-00123779
The court ordered the state legislature to draw a new map by Dec. 8.
https://defector.com/the-stop-cop-city-indictment-is-an-act-of-desperation
Early on the morning of Sept. 7, a Stop Work Order Notice was posted at the site of Cop City, a proposed police militarization facility that Atlanta residents have been fighting for over two years. This order wasn’t like most. It was not issued by a governing authority. Instead, it was issued by the People; […]
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/politics/georgia-election-law-ban-food-water-voters-line/index.html
A federal judge on Friday narrowed a section of Georgia election law that banned the practice of handing out food and water to voters waiting in line to cast ballots, as well as halted enforcement of a requirement that voters put their birth dates on the outer envelope of their ballots.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-teacher-fired-reading-book-gender-identity-64f8428af86ed47bea093fba5167506a
A Georgia school board has voted to fire a teacher after officials said she improperly read a book on gender fluidity to her fifth grade class.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/first-us-nuclear-reactor-built-scratch-decades-enters-commercial-opera-rcna97258
Nuclear power now makes up about 25% of the generation of Georgia Power, the largest unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co.