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The 14-day candidate filing period for the November municipal General Elections began today at noon, and within the core coverage area of The Smoky Mo...

Bulloch County Commissioners met Wednesday night for their bi-monthly meeting. The meeting returned to their newly renovated and expanded Commission meeting room. Read the story to review all business covered at the meeting.

Away from the headline grabbing military threats, Beijing’s propaganda department is working to woo hearts and minds.

Taiwan’s Republic of China Navy is facing two looming threats from China and has been struggling to create a force structure to handle both. First, the ROCN must be able to meet the risk of a potential full-scale invasion by the People’s Republic of China. Second, it has to confront the constant grey zone activities […]

News items for the local area

Introduction The People’s Republic of China (PRC) exercises influence over South Korea in multiple ways. Chinese influence operations against Seoul have been characterized as not subtle and even blatant compared to the more covert and subversive methods employed in other countries (China Brief, December 19, 2014). Indeed, the more overt and aggressive ways in which Beijing exercises influence were on …

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — An Inez, Kentucky, man was arrested on arson charges after a house fire in Williamson on March 1 that spread and ultimately destroyed four other structures.

Uvalde city officials tried to get state officials to go along with a narrative painting the response as heroic for saving the lives of others.

Editor’s Note: This is the second part of a two-part article series that addresses both a prominent Russian Federation state disinformation campaign related to the war in Ukraine—namely, that the Russian invasion was justified due to the alleged presence of U.S.-sponsored biological warfare research facilities in Ukraine—as well as the ways in which this conspiracy theory has been supported and …

Introduction Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, People’s Republic of China (PRC) officials and state media have promoted and amplified key elements of Moscow’s narrative that the war has been provoked by the United States and its NATO allies in Europe. At several PRC foreign ministry press conferences this spring, spokespeople lent credence to Russian …