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The governors of Alabama and Georgia have lifted restrictions on the number of hours that fuel truck drivers can work, hoping to prevent gasoline shortages after the shutdown of a leaking pipeline in rural Alabama. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal issued a four-day order on Wednesday.
Now that North Carolina has lost its NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference championship events for this year, some other states shape up as the next potential battlegrounds in the organization's fight for discrimination-free environments. The NCAA earlier this week took the unprecedented step of pulling seven championship events from the state over its objection to a law that can allow for discrimination against LGBT people.
Law enforcement agencies from Douglas County and throughout Georgia are partnering this weekend to help the flood-ravaged community of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, through what is being called a "Convoy of Care." "I think this is an historic event and I am excited to really show what Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal talks about as being 'One Georgia,'" said Clarence Cox, National Vice President of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives .
Stopping the clock in Georgia. In 1964, Rep. Denmark Groover hung over the gallery rail to stop the clock from reaching midnight on the last day of the legislative session.
People living downstream from a massive landfill near Jesup have good reason to worry about the nearly 1 million tons of coal ash dumped there. Likewise, they have a great reason to block a project that would bring in tons more.
Finding your footing in society can be tough for anyone, and it could be even tougher for those with a criminal background. Governor Nathan Deal has declared July as "re-entry awareness month."
The 41 Electric Membership Corporations in Georgia - including Southern Rivers Energy - recently brought the issue of line worker safety before the 2016 Georgia General Assembly.
Similar trips take months to plan and this one is no exception. But the visit comes at a tumultuous time for Europe, following British voters' support in a June referendum for leaving the European Union.
It's encouraging to see state officials acknowledge that Atlanta isn't the only community in Georgia that has serious transportation problems and needs help from the state. On Wednesday, Gov. Nathan Deal announced that Chatham Area Transit is one of nine systems in the state to receive grant funding from Georgia's $75 million GO! Transit Capital program.
Camila Wright took a chance three years ago when she got on a plane to meet the man who would become the love of her life. This week he was cruelly taken from her, shot dead while working to provide for his wife and young daughter.
As quietly as if a church mouse did it, the Georgia state holiday known for decades as Robert E. Lee Day this year became the decidedly more generic "State Holiday." In a state where the "Dukes of Hazzard" once careered around in a Confederate flag-emblazoned Charger named the General Lee, the decision by Gov. Nathan Deal to scratch the Southern war hero from the official celebration list should have elicited at least a few rebel yells, surely.
For nearly seven months, it has been illegal for physicians in Georgia to provide abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy - but almost no one knew it. Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in 2012.
Georgia's top education official said Friday that state school districts don't have to comply with the Obama administration's recent guidance that transgender students at public schools be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.