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Nearly three weeks after the fire under the Interstate 85 northbound bridge near Piedmont Road caused it to collapse and damaged the southbound bridge enough to also warrant its replacement, little new information on the case has been provided by the Georgia Department of Transportation, mainly due to an ongoing investigation.
Since the 2016 election, we've heard everything from now on will be a referendum on Trump . But here in Georgia, the special election for Rep. Tom Price's seat is a referendum on a man nobody talked about in 2016: Jon Ossoff.
Struggling schools, opioid addiction and the state's medical marijuana program appear likely to dominate the rest of Georgia's legislative session. The Senate last week passed SB 81, the Jeffery Dallas Gay, Jr. Act, which would allow pharmacists to dispense Naloxone, an opioid antagonist, to individuals in accordance with a statewide standing order.
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Struggling schools, opioid addiction and the state's medical marijuana program appear likely to dominate the rest of Georgia's legislative session. Lawmakers spent January and February consider bills introduced in their own chamber.
In December, Governor Nathan Deal issued an order to remove an anti-overdose drug from the dangerous drug list, and to allow for it to be sold over the counter in pharmacies statewide. The governor said he was also planning to introduce additional legislation in this session to continue fighting the opioid epidemic.
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The United States Department of Energy is awarding Blue Bird Corporation , a bus manufacturer based in Fort Valley, GA, $4.4 million to develop a zero-emissions, 100 percent vehicle-to-grid electric school bus. The award is part of $15 million the energy department set aside late last year to accelerate the adoption of advanced and alternative fuel vehicles.
In this Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2003 file photo, Georgia Rep. Gerald Greene, D-Cuthbert, a member of the HOPE Scholarship Joint Study Commission, listens to some of the cost-cutting suggestions during the group's meeting, at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Green, 69, is recovering from a gunshot wound after he says he was shot, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, while traveling with several thousands of dollars in donations for storm relief efforts.
Crews searched a mobile home park strewn with twisted metal and other debris Wednesday for a toddler whose parents reported him missing after a tornado demolished their trailer during a weekend outbreak of deadly storms. Albany Fire Chief Ron Rowe told a news conference the search for 2-year-old Detrez Green resumed at first daylight Wednesday.
Georgia's governor is getting a firsthand look at the destruction caused by weekend tornadoes and thunderstorms blamed for killing 20 people in the South. Gov. Nathan Deal flew over the city of Albany on Wednesday to see the path of a tornado blamed for killing four of 15 people who died in Georgia.
In the Southeast, storms killed at least 18 people -- 14 in Georgia and four in Mississippi -- and two people died in California after heavy rains hit the region. In Northern California's Mendocino County, a 125-foot-tall oak tree fell into a single-story apartment, killing a 36-year-old woman on Saturday morning, Capt.
People stop to take a photo of a gas station damaged by an apparent tornado, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Albany, Ga. Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency in several counties, including Cook, that have suffered deaths, injuries and severe damage from weekend storms.
Death toll rises to 15, at least 43 injured following SWGA storm - KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana News Weather & Sports The death toll in Southwest Georgia after severe weather swept through the area has now risen to 15. Due to associations with wind and flooding, several schools and universities have been closed or are delayed from opening Monday. Due to associations with wind and flooding, several schools and universities have been closed or are delayed from opening Monday.
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Powerful storms kicked up apparent tornadoes and pushed the weekend death toll to 16 people killed and dozens injured as a fast-moving storm system punched through the Southeast for a second day on Sunday, authorities said. An apparent tornado blew through a mobile home park early Sunday in southern Georgia's rural Cook County - sheering off siding, upending homes and killing seven people, local authorities said.