http://feed.informer.com/digests/VTVYCNK0M6/feeder Georgia State News Respective post owners and feed distributors Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:50:30 +0000 Feed Informer http://feed.informer.com/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/copy-city-prosecution-case Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:02ff7500-8af4-ae6e-0fb9-8d219280b4cc Sun, 18 May 2025 14:00:36 +0000 <p>Lawyers for 61 people facing charges over police protest say delays are ruining lives and case is politically motivated</p><p>Nearly two years into the largest Rico, or conspiracy, prosecution against a protest movement in US history, the case is mired in delays and defence claims that proceedings are politically motivated and ruining the lives of the 61 activists and protesters who face trial.</p><p>Rico cases are usually brought against organized crime, and are associated with the mafia, but in Georgia a sprawling prosecution has been brought against dozens of people opposed to a police training center near <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/atlanta">Atlanta</a> known as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/cop-city">Cop City</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/copy-city-prosecution-case">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/pregnant-georgia-woman-brain-dead-abortion-law Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:8b0b027b-575a-6a96-e1f3-7c0ac84c0877 Thu, 15 May 2025 22:03:19 +0000 <p>Doctors are keeping Adriana Smith on life support months after medical emergency until baby is ready, family says</p><p>A pregnant woman in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/state-of-georgia">Georgia</a> was declared brain dead after a medical emergency and doctors have kept her on life support for three months so far to allow enough time for the baby to be born and comply with Georgia’s strict anti-<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/abortion">abortion</a> law, family members say.</p><p>She could be kept in that state for months more.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/pregnant-georgia-woman-brain-dead-abortion-law">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/missing-georgia-camper-found-california Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:eb426e74-ce28-c8d4-57d8-4abc449391e5 Thu, 15 May 2025 20:32:32 +0000 <p>Tiffany Slaton of Georgia went missing during a blizzard in April while on solo trip through Sierra Nevada</p><p>A hiker who went missing for weeks during a solo camping trip in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</a> wilderness has been found safely, after she became trapped in a blizzard and took refuge in an empty lakeside cabin.</p><p>Tiffany Slaton of Jeffersonville, Georgia, was found near a lake in Fresno county, California, after the owner of Vermilion Valley Resort, a lodging site between Yosemite and Kings Canyon national parks, was checking on his property and noticed that one of his cabins was occupied by a woman, according to the <a href="https://www.fresnosheriff.org/images/2025/05/05142025%20Missing%20Camper%20Miraculously%20Found%20Alive.pdf">Fresno county sheriff’s office</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/missing-georgia-camper-found-california">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/republican-states-universities-attacks-trump Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:de213645-1ee0-0ff1-0827-a4c4763f4fb9 Sat, 10 May 2025 17:00:01 +0000 <p>As universities begin to push back on Trump’s policies, those in Republican-led states face multiple threats</p><p>Days after the University of Michigan president, Santa Ono, announced that he was leaving his post to lead the University of Florida, his name was quietly removed on Wednesday from a letter signed by more than <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration">600 university presidents</a> denouncing the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a>’s “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” with academic institutions.</p><p>As Ono is set to become the highest-paid public university president in the country, in a state that has often been at the forefront of the rightwing battle against higher education, the reversal, first <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/outgoing-umich-prez-santa-ono-pulls-his-name-from-academic-freedom-letter">reported</a> on by Talking Points Memo, underscored the challenges of standing up against the government’s sweeping attacks on education in solidly red states.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/10/republican-states-universities-attacks-trump">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/04/cryptocurrency-mining-facilities-noise-trump Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:d8a6b578-ff0e-1ba6-500f-becb1a216db9 Sun, 04 May 2025 10:00:03 +0000 <p>Cryptocurrency mining facilities can blanket towns with ‘constant’ noise. They’re likely to get louder under Trump</p><p>First came the dogs’ balding – leathery pink patches on otherwise glossy fur coats.</p><p>The veterinarian told Shenice Copenhaver it was genetic. But it wasn’t long before one of the hairless puppies began stealing blankets to burrow beneath furniture and hide for long stretches.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/04/cryptocurrency-mining-facilities-noise-trump">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/georgia-school-shooting-safety-law Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:4fed0111-392f-6028-7c78-3f0385eae848 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:51:21 +0000 <p>Father of teacher killed in 2024 says ‘part of the healing’ as measure aims to boost communication with police agencies</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/state-of-georgia">Georgia</a>’s governor, Brian Kemp, on Monday signed a law that supporters hope will prevent future school shootings like the one that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/georgia-high-school-shooting-apalachee">killed two students and two teachers</a> on 4 September at the Apalachee high school north-east of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/atlanta">Atlanta</a>.</p><p>Richard Aspinwall, the father of the Ricky Aspinwall, one of the teachers who was killed, called Monday “a great day for advancing safety”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/georgia-school-shooting-safety-law">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/ice-immigration-detention Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:f118b8cb-9adf-e2b0-bf8b-797c01124c39 Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:00:34 +0000 <p>Rodney Taylor, whose legs were amputated as a toddler, just one of many people with disabilities at risk from detention</p><p>In his three months locked up at <a href="https://www.corecivic.com/facilities/stewart-detention-center">Stewart </a>detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Rodney Taylor has missed meals and showers, lived with increasing pain in his hips, developed a swollen thumb on his right hand and blisters on the stumps where his two legs were amputated when he was a toddler.</p><p>Taylor’s mother brought him to the US from Liberia on a medical visa as a small child. He went through 16 operations and is a double amputee. He has two fingers on his right hand. Now 46, he has lived in the US nearly his entire life, works as a barber, is active in promoting cancer awareness in his community, and recently got engaged.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/ice-immigration-detention">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/22/georgia-state-university-grant-gullah-geechee-heritage Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:a3cdc47d-2323-8799-1a8c-78a46081d1ea Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:08:47 +0000 <p>GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its culture</p><p>A new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to develop archival, historical and cultural research to protect Gullah Geechee heritage and communities in Georgia and South Carolina.</p><p>Using the grant, GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project (GGSLP), which will be “dedicated to maintaining African American burial grounds by recovering communities’ spiritual, genealogical and spatial lineages and safeguarding the places where those communities interred their ancestors”, according to a statement by the college.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/apr/22/georgia-state-university-grant-gullah-geechee-heritage">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/marjorie-taylor-greene-town-hall Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:0e854997-e1d8-150c-4334-f8cb8bf6bcaf Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:51:13 +0000 <p>Three arrests were made as Maga representative’s meeting was repeatedly interrupted by protesters</p><p>Police used a stun gun on two people, and arrested three attenders overall, at a town hall meeting hosted by Representative <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/marjorie-taylor-greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> on Tuesday.</p><p>Protesters repeatedly interrupted Greene during a town hall in Acworth, which is about 30 minutes outside <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/atlanta">Atlanta</a>. One man, Andrew Russell Nelms, began booing Greene almost as soon as she began speaking, and was dragged out of the room by police officers, who used a stun gun on him, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-protesters.html">according to the New York Times</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/marjorie-taylor-greene-town-hall">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/apr/16/police-use-taser-on-protester-at-marjorie-taylor-greene-town-hall-video Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:0423cbcc-a74f-cee9-272b-86833c2505b3 Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:15:47 +0000 <p>A number of arrests were made and at least one protester was Tasered by police after interrupting the Georgia representative as she addressed a crowd of supporters. The meeting, held in Acworth, was attended by about 150 people, some of whom cheered as demonstrators were escorted and wrestled to the ground by police officers. Acworth police sergeant Eric Mistretta said he believed officers had responded with appropriate force to people who yelled at the far-right congresswoman and resisted removal</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/apr/16/police-use-taser-on-protester-at-marjorie-taylor-greene-town-hall-video">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/georgia-miscarriage-charges-dropped Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:72390bff-1d73-0e4b-e565-4f7d3fdd1462 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:14:54 +0000 <p>Selena Maria Chandler-Scott was arrested in Georgia after emergency responders were called in to treat her</p><p>The charges against a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/state-of-georgia">Georgia</a> woman who was found bleeding and unconscious after a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/miscarriage">miscarriage</a> were dropped on Friday.</p><p>The woman, 24-year-old Selena Maria Chandler-Scott, was arrested late last month after emergency responders were called in to treat her, according to a police press release.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/georgia-miscarriage-charges-dropped">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/abortion-critically-ill-patients Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:2c44bf9b-dbec-3f12-369a-c6bbf6b452b3 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 10:00:51 +0000 <p>Doctors in states with abortion bans say patients were not told of abortion care as option for fear of legal consequences</p><p>Doctors who practice medicine in states with abortion bans have described in a new study how three of their pregnant patients died, but probably could have been saved had they been able to receive abortion care.</p><p>The doctors, who treat lung, respiratory and other critical illnesses, never raised <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/abortion">abortion</a>, including the option of traveling out of state for the procedure, out of fear of legal repercussions, according to interviews with the doctors in the study, which was published in Chest, a medical journal. No other information about the patients who died was published.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/abortion-critically-ill-patients">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/emory-university-student-suspended-gaza-protest Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:1cf2dfc0-5879-3083-6676-fc332bdebc4d Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:00:54 +0000 <p>Emory University put Umaymah Mohammad through ‘one of the most dehumanizing’ experiences of her life as a new front opens in the silencing of pro-Palestinian voices</p><p>Umaymah Mohammad has wanted to be a doctor for as long as she remembers. She traces her ambition to the story of her mother, one of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel to Jordan in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and who contracted polio as a toddler. Despite living with the debilitating disease, Mohammad’s mother went on to raise five children and obtain a graduate degree in the US.</p><p>It’s the story of a woman who “overcame unbearable medical circumstances”, Mohammad said. It also taught the Palestinian American about “the sociological determinants of health”, she said, as Mohammad believes displacement contributed to her mother catching the disease, due to the <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4975965">poor sanitary conditions</a> entire communities of Palestinian refugees faced at the time.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/emory-university-student-suspended-gaza-protest">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/measles-spread-vaccine-misinformation Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:e8db57d5-267c-458c-3176-51ce9e235e7b Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:00:19 +0000 <p>Ohio, Maryland and Alabama among states to report new cases, with 378 confirmed in first few months of 2025</p><p>More US states are reporting measles cases as the Texas outbreak expands, surpassing last year’s total, amid vaccine misinformation and hesitancy.</p><p>The Texas outbreak could take a year to get under control, one health official said – during which time it may spread to more states. Yet the parents of the six-year-old girl who died of measles in Texas have spoken against measles vaccination as misinformation continues to proliferate, including from figures such as the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/measles-spread-vaccine-misinformation">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/storm-tornado-southern-states Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:9e68ee28-0d89-a30f-5be1-d5c76a24420a Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:59:54 +0000 <p>Tornadoes, wildfires and dust storms resulted in the deaths of more than 40 people and widespread destruction</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2025/mar/16/in-pictures-storm-damage-us-south">US storm damage – in pictures</a></li></ul><p>Clean up efforts have started in several US states which endured destructive storms that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/extreme-weather-storms-tornadoes">killed</a> more than 40 people over the weekend.</p><p>The massive storm system in question swept across at least eight states in the south and midwest over the weekend, with multiple tornadoes, wildfires and dust storms descending on the region, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2025/mar/16/in-pictures-storm-damage-us-south">destroying</a> thousands of businesses and homes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/storm-tornado-southern-states">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/extreme-weather-storms-tornadoes Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:1380a254-0fcf-f5e5-67aa-30d2b13c68b0 Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:38:44 +0000 <p>Portions of eastern US under watch for dangerous winds and tornadoes as storm moves out on Sunday</p><p>Portions of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</a>, and mid-Atlantic and south-east states were still under a National Weather Service watch for damaging wind and tornadoes, as the death toll from weekend storms rose to 36 people across six states.</p><p>In a White House statement, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> said he was monitoring the tornadoes and storms, adding that “36 innocent lives have been lost, and many more devastated”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/extreme-weather-storms-tornadoes">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/atlanta-missing-boy-found-colorado Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:f5bcec1d-37a1-05ba-4a30-41c61571676c Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:40:09 +0000 <p>Police found boy, now 14, after responding to a burglary call and arresting his mother, who didn’t have custody of him</p><p>A boy who was allegedly taken by his mother, who didn’t have custody of him, seven years ago from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/atlanta">Atlanta</a> was found last month in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/colorado">Colorado</a> after the mother was arrested in an unrelated incident in suburban <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/denver">Denver</a>, authorities said on Wednesday.</p><p>Rabia Khalid, 40, was arrested on 23 February after sheriff’s deputies were asked to investigate a suspected burglary taking place at a vacant home that was for sale, the Douglas county sheriff’s office said. The deputies found two children in a vehicle outside the property and a man and a woman coming out of the home who initially told them they were working for a realtor, it said in a press release.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/06/atlanta-missing-boy-found-colorado">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/kingsley-wilson-pentagon-leo-frank Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:58de01c4-d7fe-6ea6-db23-f8345dab0a4f Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:32:43 +0000 <p>Kingsley Wilson disputed innocence of Leo Frank, widely agreed to have been wrongly convicted of girl’s 1913 murder</p><p>The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has condemned a past social media post by the Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson that disputed the innocence of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman whom most historians agree was <a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-50a903bdf0d74be59c7e1f220a4b8b66">wrongfully convicted</a> of killing a 13-year-old factory worker and lynched in 1915 during a wave of antisemitism in the US.</p><p>“Leo Frank raped &amp; murdered a 13-year-old girl. He also tried to frame a Black man for his crime,” Wilson <a href="https://archive.is/dPvse">wrote</a> on X in response to an August 2024 tweet by the ADL marking the 109th anniversary of Frank’s lynching. “The ADL turned off the comments because they want to gaslight you.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/kingsley-wilson-pentagon-leo-frank">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/south-carolina-wildfire Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:b9a5c71f-f2ee-5aa0-9cc2-2aacc29c79fb Mon, 03 Mar 2025 13:35:48 +0000 <p>Firefighters work to contain blaze in Carolina Forest as south-eastern states face increased fire danger</p><p>Crews on Sunday made progress containing a wildfire in South Carolina’s Carolina Forest, where residents had been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/02/wildfires-north-south-carolina-evacuations">ordered to evacuate</a> several neighborhoods, according to Horry county fire rescue.</p><p>Video showed some people running down the street as smoke filled the sky. But by late Sunday afternoon, the fire department announced that evacuees of Carolina Forest – which is west of the coastal resort city of Myrtle Beach – could return home.</p><p><em>Associated Press contributed reporting</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/south-carolina-wildfire">Continue reading...</a> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/02/civil-rights-movement-trump Georgia | The Guardian urn:uuid:99f6c19e-9b28-d805-ae6b-27489ace07dc Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:00:11 +0000 <p>They faced violence and racism as they fought on the frontlines for justice and equality. Now Trump is reversing the progress they toiled for</p><p>Carolyn McKinstry knows about the dangers of extremism in America. She lived it.</p><p>McKinstry was the Sunday school secretary at the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, when the church was bombed by white supremacists on 16 September 1963, killing four Black girls – Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Roberts, all 14, and 11-year-old Cynthia Wesley.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/02/civil-rights-movement-trump">Continue reading...</a>