Local News
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The Akins Ford Arena has received a temporary Certificate of Occupancy Permit, allowing the Rock Lobster hockey team’s first home game to move forward.
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Hundreds of thousands of students in Georgia will be eligible for $6,500 vouchers to pay for private school tuition or home-schooling expenses
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A former Georgia district attorney charged with illegally interfering with police investigating the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery made her first court appearance Wednesday, more than three years after being indicted by a grand jury.
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The COVID-19 pandemic paused an after school program for middle schoolers created by Clarke County School District and the University of Georgia. That program, which this year fuses art and activism, is back up and running.
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Athens-Clarke County has announced that its acting manager will resign. Mayor Kelly Girtz will recommend an Acting Manager candidate at the next mayor and commission meeting on January 7th.
NPR News
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In a wide-ranging and long interview, President-elect Donald Trump tells TIME Magazine his priorities for the first days of his second time at the presidency.
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The 29-year-old had last been seen in Budapest, Hungary. He said he was detained earlier this year after crossing into Syria on foot from Lebanon and held in prison until the fall of the Assad regime.
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The 1,500 people had been serving long prison sentences that would have been shorter under today's laws and practices. They had been on home confinement since the COVID pandemic.
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Germany hosts almost a million Syrians who fled war and dictatorship. The toppling of the Assad regime has raised questions for exiles about their next step.
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