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Early voting gets underway Monday for Georgia's May 21st primary. In one of the election's most closely watched races, five Republicans faced each other in a televised debate Sunday. A research project at Mercer University is exploring ways to turn food waste into renewable energy.
This spring, as manatees migrate to Georgia and sea turtles spend more time at the water’s surface, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources is asking boaters to be cautious.
Today is the last day of Georgia's two-year legislative session. The state Senate has given final passage to a bill that would ban what it calls quote "foreign adversaries" from buying certain pieces of property. Georgia Power and state regulators have reached a tentative agreement on Georgia Power’s request to update its integrated resource plan, or IRP, and ramp up energy production in the face of new demand from things like data centers and electric vehicle manufacture.
Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has pleaded guilty in a federal case accusing him of health care fraud. Rome Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to oust US House Speaker Mike Johnson. She calls it a warning. A January 6th defendant who at the time of the attack was a Savannah car salesman is showing interest in taking his case to trial.
The University of Georgia has identified a person of interest being questioned in connection with the death of a woman on campus. Movie heavyweight Tyler Perry is pausing plans for an $800 million expansion at his Atlanta studio because of artificial intelligence. The state House is backing a measure to criminalize the use of "deepfakes" generated by artificial intelligence in campaign ads.
Bipartisan legislation introduced this week proposes changes to some, but not all, current policy that limits the construction or expansion of health care facilities in Georgia, also known as Certificate of Need. The state House has passed a bill to prevent officers from having to arrest people who refuse to sign traffic tickets. Researchers from Augusta University are using Census data to find out how many adults in the U.S. are currently living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.