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In this photo provided by Kaitlin Marie Sells, Sam Lilley, left, pilots a small airplane that took off from Savannah, Ga., on Aug, 6, 2022, for a flight to reach the 1,500 flight hours required for Lilley to begin training to become an airline pilot. (Kaitlin Marie Sells via AP)

Crews in midair crash included 2nd-generation pilot and flight attendant ‘full of life’

January 31, 2025 at 8:23 a.m.

Authorities say there were no survivors after the two aircraft plummeted into the Potomac River in the country’s deadliest aviation disaster since 2001. At least 28 bodies have been pulled...

FILE – Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown, Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. The 90-year-old Carter gave one lesson to about 300 people filling the small Baptist church that he and his wife, Rosalynn, attend. It was Carter’s first lesson since detailing the intravenous drug doses and radiation treatment planned to treat melanoma found in his brain after surgery to remove a tumor from his liver. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Jimmy Carter’s funeral begins by tracing 100 years from rural Georgia to the world stage

January 5, 2025 at 8:08 a.m.

Jimmy Carter‘s extended public farewell began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president’s flag-draped casket tracing his long arc from the Depression-era South and family farming business to the...

A Rivian R1S is displayed outside of the auto manufacturer’s new space at Ponce City Market on Oct. 19, 2023, in Atlanta. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

Biden administration to loan $6.6B to EV maker Rivian to build Georgia factory that automaker paused

November 26, 2024 at 4:24 p.m.

President Joe Biden’s administration announced Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Energy will make a $6.6 billion loan to Rivian Automotive to build a factory in Georgia that had stalled...

Un vehículo Rivian R1S en el Ponce City Market de Atlanta el 19 de octubre del 2023. (Matthew Pearson/WABE via AP)

EEUU prestará 6.600 millones de dólares a empresa para fabricación de vehículos eléctricos

November 26, 2024 at 4:25 p.m.

El gobierno estadounidense anunció el martes que el Departamento de Energía otorgará un préstamo de 6.600 millones de dólares a Rivian Automotive para construir una fábrica en Georgia que había...

A text is viewed on a mobile device Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Washington, as across the U.S., people’s phones are pinging with text messages from Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their allies in the presidential campaign’s final days. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Ping! Harris and Trump are blowing up your phones with political texts in campaign’s last days

October 31, 2024 at 8:04 a.m.

For the millions of Americans on the radar of the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns and those of their allies, the apocalypse is only a text message away.

Vehicles roll along on a washed up road in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024, in Pensacola, N.C. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

When will the power return? Weary Carolinas residents long for relief after Hurricane Helene’s fury.

October 4, 2024 at 6:37 p.m.

Nearly 700,000 homes and businesses in the Southeast are still without power more than a week after Hurricane Helene blew through the region.

Cindy White looks over the devastation inside her home caused by Hurricane Helene, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 in Morganton, N.C. The adjacent Catawba River flooded due to the torrential rains destroying the seven of family’s nine homes on the property. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

Southerners stay in touch the old-fashioned way after Helene cuts roads, power, phones

October 2, 2024 at 5:30 p.m.

Many residents of the Carolinas who still lacked running water, cellphone service and electricity Wednesday made do for the moment and questioned how long their patience would last nearly a...

FILE – Abortion rights protesters rally near the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta, on May 14, (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Judge strikes down Georgia ban on abortions, allowing them to resume beyond 6 weeks into pregnancy

September 30, 2024 at 4:32 p.m.

A Georgia judge on Monday struck down the state’s abortion law, which took effect in 2022 and effectively prohibited abortions beyond about six weeks of pregnancy.

A memorial is seen at Apalachee High School after the Wednesday school shooting, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Winder, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Georgia Republican leader seeks policy changes after latest school shooting but Democrats want more

September 12, 2024 at 5:39 p.m.

Georgia’s state House speaker says lawmakers in 2025 will consider new policies after a school shooting killed four at a high school northeast of Atlanta.

A poster with images of victims Christian Angulo, top left, Richard Aspinwall, top right, Mason Schermerhorn, bottom left, and Cristina Irimie is displayed at a memorial outside Apalachee High School, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024, in Winder, Ga., following a shooting at the school earlier in the week. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Mother’s warning to Georgia school raises questions about moments before shooting

September 9, 2024 at 8:46 a.m.

The mother of a student at the Georgia high school where a teen allegedly killed four people says information indicating staff were warned he was having a crisis shows the shooting could...

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