Nation Dec 31 Jimmy Carter mourned in his tiny hometown and around the world Tributes to former President Jimmy Carter are pouring in from his small hometown of Plains, Georgia, and around the world.
Politics Dec 30 After his presidency, Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease top mission Carter tried to rid the world of Guinea worm, which infects people who drink unclean water tainted with larva.
Nation Oct 20 Authorities investigate cause of deadly dock gangway collapse on Sapelo Island, Georgia Georgia authorities said Sunday they are investigating the “catastrophic failure” of a dock gangway that collapsed and killed seven on Sapelo Island, where crowds had gathered for a fall celebration by the island’s tiny Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants.
Nation Sep 08 Mother of Georgia shooting suspect called school to warn of 'extreme emergency,' aunt says The mother of the 14-year-old who has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of four people at his Georgia high school called the school before the killings, warning staff of an “extreme emergency” involving her son, a relative…
Nation Aug 07 Tropical Storm Debby swirls over Atlantic coast, dumping rain on the Carolinas ahead of expected second landfall The latest forecast says Debby could restrengthen over the ocean before its center moves inland again in South Carolina by Thursday.
Nation Aug 06 Tropical Storm Debby slowly moving through southeastern U.S., bringing rain and flood Record-setting rain from the storm that killed at least five people was causing flash flooding in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, among other areas of the Atlantic coast.
World May 04 Northern Gaza is now in 'full-blown famine,' according to senior UN official A top U.N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in “full-blown famine" after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory.
Nation Mar 27 3 men who killed Ahmaud Arbery ask appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions The 25-year-old Black man was chased by men in pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a coastal Georgia subdivision in 2020.
Politics Mar 16 What to know about Bernie Sanders' bill for the U.S. to adopt a 32-hour workweek The 40-hour workweek has been standard in the U.S. for more than eight decades. Now some members of Congress want to give hourly workers an extra day off.
Nation Mar 04 Mining company can't tap water needed for Okefenokee wildlife refuge, U.S. says A federal agency is asserting legal rights to waters that feed the Okefenokee Swamp and its vast wildlife refuge, setting up a new battle with a mining company seeking permits to withdraw more than 1.4 million gallons per day.