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• Georgia voters voice support for Marjorie Taylor Greene amid rift with Trump over Epstein files vote

  20-11-2025 00:14 via cbsnews.com
  In Rome, Georgia, where the church steeple rises higher than city hall, faith among the Floyd County Republican Women's Group is divided into two kinds: political and personal.On a day when other voices in the party have been loud, Pam Peters, the chair of the Floyd County Republican Party, and other members of the GOP are quietly volunteering at a food pantry run by a local ministry."We have a mission and we're here to do that mission," Peters said.On Tuesday, while their representative was spe
  
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• Jury indicts former official at Georgia Baptist university on charges of lying about sexual assault

  11-12-2025 16:27 via cbsnews.com
  A former vice president at a Baptist university in northeast Georgia has been indicted on charges that he lied when he denied sexually assaulting a woman who was a student and later a university employee.A White County grand jury on Monday indicted Bradley Reynolds on three felony counts of making false statements to law enforcement.Reynolds was the vice president of academic affairs at Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, Georgia, until he resigned in 2024. Reynolds didn't respond to phone
  
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• Atlanta Falcons selected for 2026 international regular-season game

  11-12-2025 16:11 via cbsnews.com
  The Atlanta Falcons will head overseas in 2026, with the NFL announcing that the team will serve as the designated home team for an international regular-season game.League officials said the date, location, time, and opponent will be announced later. The game will replace one of Atlanta's home matchups during the 2026 season.The Falcons' schedule next year will include one preseason game and eight regular-season games at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.Team officials said more information, including tick
  
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• Judge declines to halt execution of Georgia man seeking protection under pandemic agreement

  11-12-2025 15:24 via cbsnews.com
  A federal judge declined Wednesday to halt next week's scheduled execution of a Georgia man who argued that he should be shielded by an agreement reached during the COVID-19 pandemic that set conditions for the state to resume putting condemned people to death.Stacey Humphreys, 52, is scheduled to die Dec. 17 for the 2003 killings of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown, who were fatally shot at the real estate office where they worked in an Atlanta suburb.U.S. District Court Ju
  
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• Family continues search for missing law professor who disappeared while hiking near Blood Mountain

  11-12-2025 05:46 via cbsnews.com
  The family of a missing law professor is pleading for help and holding onto hope as private search teams returned to Blood Mountain for another day of searching.60-year-old Charles Hosch, a longtime attorney and law professor in Dallas, Texas, disappeared last month while hiking a trail he knew well from childhood. Hosch grew up in Gainesville and was visiting relatives in Georgia when he stopped for what was supposed to be a familiar walk through the mountains. He never returned.His daught
  
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• Family continues search for missing law professor who disappeared in Georgia

  11-12-2025 05:41 via cbsnews.com
  The daughter of missing 60-year-old law professor Charles Hosch says they remain hopeful — and overwhelmed by the kindness of strangers while searching for answers after he vanished.
  
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• Coca-Cola names veteran executive Henrique Braun as next CEO, keeping Atlanta at the heart of global leadership

  11-12-2025 03:33 via cbsnews.com
  The Coca-Cola Company is shaking up its top leadership team in a major transition announced Wednesday that could shape the future of one of Georgia's most globally recognized corporate icons.Coca-Cola's board elected Henrique Braun, the company's executive vice president and chief operating officer, as the next chief executive officer, effective March 31, 2026. Braun will succeed James Quincey, who has led the company since 2017 and will transition to Executive Chairman of the board. The an
  
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• Georgia faith leaders honor lawmakers behind new protections for intellectually disabled defendants

  11-12-2025 02:42 via cbsnews.com
  Georgia's faith community gathered this week to honor two Georgians they say helped deliver one of the state's most significant criminal justice reforms in years: a new law that strengthens protections for people with intellectual disabilities facing the death penalty.The Georgia Interfaith Public Policy Center (GIPPC) named State Rep. Bill Werkheiser (R–Glennville) its 2025 Legislator of the Year, and human-rights advocate Cathy Harmon-Christian its Carole Maddux Advocate of the Year, cel
  
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• Supreme Court case could reshape campaign finance — and open new money pathways into Georgia's biggest races

  11-12-2025 02:03 via cbsnews.com
  A major Supreme Court case could upend how money flows into federal elections, and Georgia may feel the first impact.Republican Party committees are asking the Court to strike down a longstanding limit on how much political parties can coordinate their spending with candidates. If the justices side with them, experts say it would create new pathways for wealthy donors to steer massive checks into individual battleground races — including in Georgia, one of the country's most competitive po
  
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• In the Atlanta Ballet's "The Nutcracker," a diverse cast of dancers takes center stage

  11-12-2025 00:31 via cbsnews.com
  For 66 years, the Atlanta Ballet has dazzled audiences with "The Nutcracker," set to Tchaikovsky's iconic score.While the classic holiday story and music haven't changed, the company has updated the ballet to be more inclusive.It was the music and the characters of the holiday classic that brought Ángel Ramírez from Trinidad, Cuba, to Atlanta."My first ballet that I watched was 'The Nutcracker.' And I told my mom, 'Mom, this is what I want to do. I want to start dancing.' So here w
  
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• Atlanta Ballet gives modern twist to "The Nutcracker"

  11-12-2025 00:27 via cbsnews.com
  While the story and music of "The Nutcracker" haven't changed, the Atlanta Ballet has updated the holiday classic to be more inclusive.
  
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• Lows tonight

  11-12-2025 00:22 via cbsnews.com
  Next Weather meteorologist Orelon Sidney says many locations in and around metro Atlanta may see freezing temperatures tonight.
  
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• Atlanta's Youth Villages launches campaign to make sure kids wake up to presents on Christmas Day

  11-12-2025 00:18 via cbsnews.com
  A youth residential treatment center in metro Atlanta is making sure no one goes without this holiday season.Youth Villages is making it its mission to ensure children who don't always receive Christmas gifts wake up to presents under the tree.The residential treatment center is a nonprofit that treats youth dealing with mental and behavioral issues. They attend school on the campus and do fun activities like kayaking, cooking classes, and outdoor activities.The center has kicked off its Holiday
  
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• Georgia police save father's life with 15 minutes of CPR

  11-12-2025 00:03 via cbsnews.com
  Body camera video shows the Chamblee officers rotating in and out to keep compressions going without rest in order to save the life of a local father.
  
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• Chamblee officers revive father after 15 minutes of CPR: "I really am eternally grateful"

  10-12-2025 23:29 via cbsnews.com
  Newly released body-camera video shows the intense moments Chamblee Police Department officers worked to revive a father who collapsed at a Jiffy Lube on Peachtree Boulevard — performing nearly 15 minutes of continuous CPR until his pulse returned.Officers were dispatched after an employee, Pablo Santiago, collapsed and stopped breathing. Officer Dustin Bulcher was parked across the street when the call came in and rushed inside to begin chest compressions immediately."Adrenaline's pumping
  
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• Atlanta spent $26.2M on OnlyFans in 2025 — and just became the #1 city in the world for per-capita spending

  10-12-2025 20:46 via cbsnews.com
  Atlanta leads the world in hip-hop, culture, and nightlife — and now, data shows the city tops another booming economy: digital intimacy.According to the OnlyFans Wrapped 2025 report from OnlyGuider, a search engine that tracks adult-content platforms, Atlanta ranks #1 globally in per-capita spending on OnlyFans, eclipsing every city in the U.S. and abroad.The analysis found that Atlanta residents spent $525,476 per 10,000 people on OnlyFans creators this year — a metric that puts th
  
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• DeKalb County mother sentenced to life for beating 4-year-old to death because he wasn't potty trained

  10-12-2025 19:41 via cbsnews.com
  A DeKalb County woman will spend the rest of her life in jail for killing her 4-year-old son because he wouldn't use the toilet.According to prosecutors, officers with the DeKalb County Police Department responded to a report of a child who was not breathing at an apartment on March 6, 2022.Arriving at the apartment on Tregoney Drive, the officers found 4-year-old Anthony Vice lying on the floor of the living room. While rendering aid, medics noticed that there was "new and old bruising over the
  
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• Holiday travel expected to beat records as Georgians hit the roads for the season

  10-12-2025 18:54 via cbsnews.com
  Many Georgians will be joining the millions of travelers across the country, hitting the road and heading to the airport for what AAA predicts will be a record-breaking holiday travel period.The auto club expects around 3.8 million Georgians and 112.4 million Americans to travel at least 50 miles between Dec. 20 and Jan. 1. That's a 2.2% increase from last year's record-breaking numbers.For Georgia, AAA expects most travelers heading somewhere for the holidays to drive, given falling gas prices.
  
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• Brunswick High School football coach resigns weeks after playoff brawl fallout

  10-12-2025 18:02 via cbsnews.com
  Brunswick High School head football coach Garrett Grady has announced his resignation, just weeks after the team was involved in a major on-field brawl during a playoff game against Gainesville High School.Grady, who spent four years as head coach and five years as an assistant, was a well-respected figure in the Brunswick community. In a statement released Tuesday, the Region 1-AAAAA Coach of the Year reflected on his time leading the program."For the past nine seasons, I have been blessed
  
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• Former Athens-Clarke County police officer indicted on child abuse, bestiality-related charges

  10-12-2025 17:11 via cbsnews.com
  A former Athens-Clarke County police officer has been indicted on multiple charges connected with an investigation into the production of images showing the sexual exploitation of children and animals, officials said.Investigators with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested now-34-year-old Amber Nicole Ferguson in January. Now, officials say they added additional charges as part of the investigation.According to authorities, a family member of the two underage victims reported their suspic
  
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• Georgia man gets probation for flying drone over MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta

  10-12-2025 14:52 via cbsnews.com
  A Decatur man has pleaded guilty to illegally flying a drone over Truist Park during the 2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. It's a federal crime that prosecutors say put fans and aircraft at risk.Mitchell Parsons Hughes, 47, admitted in federal court that he knowingly violated a temporary flight restriction, also known as a No Drone Zone, during the July 15 game. He was sentenced to six months' probation and fined $500 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Russell Vineyard."Anyone attempting to fly a
  
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• Georgia Democrat Eric Gisler claims upset state House win in historically Republican district

  10-12-2025 14:03 via cbsnews.com
  Democrat Eric Gisler claimed an upset victory Tuesday in a special election in a historically Republican Georgia state House district.Gisler said he was the winner of the contest, in which he was leading Republican Mack "Dutch" Guest by about 200 votes out of more than 11,000 in final unofficial returns.Robert Sinners, a spokesperson with the secretary of state's office, said there could be a few provisional ballots left before the tally is finalized."I think we had the right message for the tim
  
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• Georgia considers rules on when to use hand-marked ballots in election emergencies

  10-12-2025 13:57 via cbsnews.com
  Hand-marked paper ballots are Georgia's backup when touchscreen voting machines can't be used because of an "emergency," and a proposed rule change would list the qualifying circumstances. Supporters say this would make it easier to determine if hand-marked ballots are needed, but critics say the change oversteps the State Election Board's authority.State law says if an "emergency situation" makes using touchscreen voting machines "impossible or impracticable," voters may be given emergency pape
  
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• Georgia father shares daughter's story as state moves to put Narcan in every public school: "It only takes one pill"

  10-12-2025 05:46 via cbsnews.com
  A metro Atlanta father is sharing his daughter's story as Georgia takes a major step to fight the opioid crisis in schools. The state is moving forward with a plan to place Narcan — the fast-acting opioid reversal spray — in every public school by spring of next year.For Andrew Butler, the effort comes just as his family approaches a heartbreaking milestone: nearly five years since his 17-year-old daughter Clara died after unknowingly taking a fentanyl-laced pill.Photograph of 17-yea
  
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• "It only takes one pill": Georgia father shares daughter's story as state moves to put Narcan in every public school

  10-12-2025 05:28 via cbsnews.com
  A metro Atlanta father is sharing his daughter's story as Georgia takes a major step to fight the opioid crisis in schools. The state is moving forward with a plan to place Narcan — the fast-acting opioid reversal spray — in every public school by spring of next year.For Andrew Butler, the effort comes just as his family approaches a heartbreaking milestone: five years since his 17-year-old daughter Clara died after unknowingly taking a fentanyl-laced pill.Photograph of 17-year-old C
  
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• Georgia father shares daughter's story as state moves to put Narcan in every public school

  10-12-2025 05:20 via cbsnews.com
  Georgia is preparing to place Narcan in all public schools by next spring. A Gwinnett County father hopes the lifesaving drug — and his daughter's story — will prevent more teens from dying from fentanyl-laced pills.
  
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• 15-year-old in critical condition after shooting in South Fulton, police say

  10-12-2025 03:36 via cbsnews.com
  South Fulton Police are investigating after a 15-year-old was shot Tuesday evening in a South Fulton neighborhood.According to a media release, officers responded just after 6:23 p.m. to the 4900 block of Delano Road, where they found the teen suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital and is listed in critical condition, police said.The department's Criminal Investigations Division and Crime Scene Investigators remained at the scene Tuesday night as they worked to determin
  
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• National Center for Civil and Human Rights offers free admission for Universal Human Rights Day

  10-12-2025 03:26 via cbsnews.com
  As the world marks Universal Human Rights Day on Wednesday, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta is inviting the public to explore its newly renovated galleries—completely free of charge.The one-day offer, sponsored by The Home Depot Foundation, gives guests a chance to experience powerful civil rights and human rights exhibitions that highlight global struggles for dignity, freedom, and equality. Visitors can walk in or reserve timed tickets online.Human Rights Day, r
  
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