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Stacey Abrams makes history winning Georgia Democratic primary in bid to become first black female governor Results rolling in from primary elections in Georgia, Kentucky, Arkansas and Texas Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: https://usat.ly/2IF2kMb Georgia Democrats chose Atlanta lawyer Stacey Abrams to be their nominee for Governor. Republican candidates there are in a runoff.
In this May 21, 2018, photo, a roll of stickers awaiting distribution to early voters sits on a table at the check-in station at the Pulaski County Courthouse Annex in Little Rock, Ark. Voters in four states are casting ballots Tuesday as the 2018 midterm elections take shape.
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are considering whether to add a measure that would ease one of Wall Street's most hated post-financial crisis rules to a must-pass spending bill, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The move to change the Volcker Rule's ban on proprietary trading may be included in next year's budget for financial regulators, according to the person who asked not to be identified because the final text of the bill hasn't been released.
The Republican gubernatorial primary in Georgia has devolved in recent weeks into a chest-thumping argument over which candidate hates undocumented immigrants the most. In their rush to prove themselves, two candidates-both currently elected officials-have engaged in an escalating competition over who can personally "round up" and remove more immigrants from the state.
Look closely enough at the 2018 midterm campaign and you'll see the stirrings of a Democratic scramble to reclaim the White House from President Donald Trump. The leading players - from established national figures such as former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to up-and-comers including Sen. Kamala Harris - don't necessarily put it that way.
Look closely enough at the 2018 midterm campaign and you'll see the stirrings of a Democratic scramble to reclaim the White House from President Donald Trump. The leading players - from established national figures such as former Vice President Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to up-and-comers including California Sen. Kamala Harris - don't necessarily put it that way.
The party's two primary candidates are a snapshot of a larger debate within the party about how to win in red states ATLANTA-Georgia Democrats, long underdogs in this red state, hoped to present a unified front this year as they pushed to elect a governor, a post they haven't held since 2003. Instead, they have the Battle of the Two Staceys: Tuesday's primary showdown between Stacey Abrams, an African-American former state House minority leader who lives in Atlanta, and Stacey Evans, a white former state representative from the city's northern suburbs.
One spent much of her childhood in trailers, raised by her mother, college made possible partly by a lottery scholarship and other grants. The other grew up in a working-class, African-American household in the Deep South, her path to law school also paved with financial aid.
One spent much of her childhood in trailers, raised by her mother, college made possible partly by a lottery scholarship and other grants. The other grew up in a working-class, African-American household in the Deep South, her path to law school also paved with financial aid.
Emergency personnel at the scene of the Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane that crashed near Savannah A crew of nine Puerto Ricans were flying an Air National Guard C-130 into retirement in Arizona when it crashed on to a road in Georgia, and authorities said there are no survivors. The plane crashed moments after taking off from the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, narrowly missing people on the ground and sending an orange and black fireball into the sky.
An Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane crashed onto a busy highway moments after taking off from an airport in Georgia on Wednesday, narrowly missing people on the ground but killing at least five National Guard members from Puerto Rico. An orange and black fireball rose into the sky after the plane crashed onto state highway 21, about a mile from the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, around 11:30 a.m., authorities said.
If Republicans are going to lock and load in order to persuade voters to head to the polls, here are three political gun safety rules. Nothing solidifies a candidate's support for the Second Amendment like packing heat on the campaign trail.
The Georgia Republican party asked voters on their 2016 primary ballot if they wanted expanded options for school choice in the state. Seventy-five percent of those answering the non-binding question voted in favor of school choice.
John James Audubon Chapter members attended the Louisiana Daughters of the American Revolution State Conference March 15-17 at the Renaissance Hotel in Baton Rouge. Shown are, from left, seated, Chapter Regent Georgia LaCour, President General Ann Dillon, State Regent Zora Olsson, State Third Vice Regent Margaret Tyler, State Treasurer Charlotte White; standing, Nola Labat, Yvonne Lewis Day, Amy Fontenot, Denise Malesic, Betty Jo Snellgrove, Stella Tanoos, Bridget May, Carole Gloger, Norma Gerace, Essie Mongeau, Shirley Newsham, Gloria Wilbert, Paula Wilbert, Sue Ann Shore, Sue Badeaux, Denise Lindsly and Glenda Carlile.
Georgia's legislators gaveled things to a close last week and for the first time in a while, it was a session that provided some positive accomplishments for taxpayers. For the first time since at least 2002, Georgia will not have "austerity cuts" for K-12 public schools in the state budget for the new fiscal year.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke acknowledges there is "a lot of opposition" to President Donald Trump's plan to open most of the nation's coastline to oil and gas drilling. Speaking at a forum on offshore wind energy Friday in Plainsboro, New Jersey, Zinke touted Trump's "all of the above" energy menu that calls for oil and gas, as well as renewable energy projects.
The Georgia Legislature passed a bill March 29 that creates a regional transit authority and provides for a new funding option for metro Atlanta's 13 counties. On the final version of the bill, Rep. Micah Gravley, R-Douglasville, who represents House District 67, was the only member of Douglas County's eight-member state delegation who voted against it.