Jeff Dantre
News Reporter-
A hundred page contempt order has been issued by a federal judge who found Georgia Department of Corrections officials willfully disregarded requirements to improve deplorable conditions inside the high-security Special Management Unit prison in Jackson.
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Gov. Kemp signed a package of health-care bills Friday, including the most significant reforms in decades to Georgia’s law governing hospital construction and new medical services.
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Georgians will owe less in income taxes this year and will get a chance in November to vote to cap increases in how homes are valued for property taxes.
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Andre Carthens is charged with murder and aggravated assault. A co-defendant, Antion Parks, entered a similar plea in March.
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The lawsuits filed in Fulton County Superior Court claim it violates the U.S. and Georgia constitutions.
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The move is part of a focus by gun control advocates on keeping guns secured.
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Eighteen rural hospitals in Georgia are at risk of closure, out of 30 rural hospitals in the state, according to a recent report by healthcare advisory firm Chartis.
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An attorney for the state of Georgia says verification requirements are necessary to prevent noncitizen voting.
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Georgia will receive a total of $638 million as part of a $26 billion multistate settlement with companies that made or distributed prescription painkillers tied to the deadly opioid crisis.
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Two Athens men have been indicted on murder charges in the death of an Athens teen who was shot to death in 2022 outside his home in east Athens.