The Latest News about Georgia

A Georgia House committee approved a bill Wednesday that seeks to ban abortions after an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detected, marking a significant push to expand abortion restrictions in the state. The House Health and Human Services Committee approved the measure by a 17 to 14 vote along party lines, CBS News reported. The bill makes exceptions in cases where ...

The University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, became the birthplace of public higher education on Jan. 27, 1785 — 234 years ago. This was the first time an educational system was run by the state rather than by a religious institution. The General Assembly of Georgia earmarked 40,000 acres of land to be endowed for an institution of higher education in ...

Less than three months after losing her Georgia gubernatorial bid, Democrat Stacey Abrams is set to launch a “thank you” tour across the state to test the waters for another campaign. Abrams, a former state representative and romance novelist, will begin her campaign-like circuit Monday with a restaurant stop in the south Georgia town of Albany. The tour is meant to energize ...

Georgia Republican state Rep. Brad Raffensperger won the runoff election to become the next Georgia Secretary of State, defeating former Democratic congressman John Barrow on Tuesday night. The 2018 midterm elections finally drew to a close for Georgia voters, with the Associated Press and other election analysis sites calling the race for Raffensperger. As of publication of this article, the Republican ...

Defeated Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams revealed on Monday that she has her eyes set on advancing her political career and she’s considering a multitude of options. After losing in November to Republican Gov.-elect Brian Kemp, Abrams has been mulling over a second run for the position when his term expires in 2022, according to Politico. However, she is ...

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams’s campaign filed a lawsuit pertaining to the state’s gubernatorial race Sunday, still hoping to force a runoff election against Republican Brian Kemp.

The Democratic Party of Georgia tried purchasing airtime on Friday to run campaign ads on a local Atlanta channel on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican running for governor, is opening an investigation into the state’s Democratic Party for allegedly attempting to hack the state’s voter registration system.

President Donald Trump holds a rally in Macon, Georgia, Sunday afternoon to support gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, Rep. Karen Handel, and Rep. Rob Woodall who all hold single-digit leads over their opponents.  Area Races Georgia Governor Republican candidate Brian Kemp holds a slim 2-point lead over Democrat challenger Stacey Abrams in the latest poll. Stacey Abrams voted against campus carry, ...

President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Macon, Georgia, Sunday afternoon to support gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, Rep. Karen Handel, and Rep. Rob Woodall who all hold single-digit leads over their opponents.  Area Races Georgia Governor Republican candidate Brian Kemp holds a slim 2-point lead over Democrat challenger Stacey Abrams in the latest poll. Stacey Abrams voted against campus ...

According to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, 670 ballots were cast in a precinct that has only 270 registered voters.  As reported by McClatchy: “Habersham County’s Mud Creek precinct in northeastern Georgia had 276 registered voters ahead of the state’s primary elections in May” “But 670 ballots were cast, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office, indicating a 243 ...

  by Ryan Pickrell A Puerto Rico Air National Guard WC-130 military transport aircraft nosedived shortly after takeoff in Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, ending the lives of the nine people on board. The plane went down off Highway 21, creating a massive fireball when it hit. Witnesses told reporters that it sounded like a bomb going off when the fatal crash ...

President Donald Trump will, in the morning, receive his daily briefing as prepared by the intelligence community. In the afternoon, the president will head to Nashville, TN to deliver a speech at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s convention. The president will then attend an NCAA football national championship game between Alabama and Georgia. President Trump’s schedule for 1/8/18 11:00 a.m. Receive ...

Grocer ALDI has voluntarily recalled an assortment of apples that were available for purchase in stores starting on December 13, 2017, due to possible Listeria contamination. The potentially affected products were sold in a limited number of ALDI stores located in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina and in the Atlanta area through the company’s partnership with Instacart, a grocery delivery service.. ...

Radical Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is calling for the destruction of the Confederate monument at Stone Mountain. The Dekalb County memorial has a controversial history in terms of its location and bears carvings of Confederate Civil War leaders Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. It is a tourist attraction yet in these raw days ...