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32 fired Georgia state troopers cleared after yearlong cheating investigation CNN 2/1/2021 © Shutterstock Following a yearlong investigation, Georgia state officials have cleared nearly all of the Georgia state trooper cadets who were implicated in a cheating scandal and fired in January 2020, according to Mike Ayers, executive director of the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council (POST). The Georgia State Patrol cadet class of 2019 was dismissed after initial reports they cheated on an online radar gun test, CNN has reported. The cadets were accused of using written or t...

Georgia clears 32 trooper cadets of cheating claims Follow Us Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Saturday, January 30, 2021 ATLANTA (AP) - After a yearlong investigation, Georgia officials are clearing 32 cadets training to be state troopers of claims that they cheated on a test. The cheating claims last year led to the state firing the 32 cadets and the resignation Mark McDonough, then head of the Georgia State Patrol. The Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, which oversees training for sta...

2 minutes, 6 seconds: Why some object to this new PT standard for future Georgia cops article Starting Jan. 1, all police recruits in GA must be able to finish this obstacle course in 2:06 or they won't be admitted to the Training Academy. (GPSTC photo) FORSYTH, Ga. - This month, the state of Georgia began requiring all recruits pass a basic physical fitness test before entering the police academy. The idea makes sense to a lot of people. But to one politically powerful law enforcement group in Georgia, it’s too much, too soon. When a police department or sheriff’s office hires someone,...

Mike Ayers's book 'One Last Song: Conversations on Life, Death, and Music.' (Jay Gabler/MPR) When I first started at Minnesota Public Radio, I worked at both The Current and our sister station, Classical MPR. Multiple times even during the few years I worked at the classical station, we heard from grateful listeners who reported that when family members were literally on their deathbeds, they chose to have Classical MPR playing as a final soundtrack. What would your final soundtrack be? In researching his book One Last Song (buy now), Mike Ayers learned to phrase the question ...

SHARE From BTS to Dolly Parton: the 2020 books that tell the stories of some of music's biggest names This year saw the release of a number of titles that pull back the curtain on the music industry 'Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop' by Nate Patrin 'Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year' by Michaelangelo Matos 'Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics', by Dolly Parton with Robert K. Oermann 'Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar', by Oliver Craske 'Larger Than Life: A History of Boy Bands from NKOTB to BTS', by Maria Sherman