Gov. Brian Kemp recently signed into law the reauthorization of the Georgia Conservation Tax Credit (GCTC). This state income tax credit is available for landowners who complete a permanent conservation easement with an accredited land trust.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection sent a letter Thursday to a House Republican in an effort to learn more about a tour he led of the building the day before the deadly attack.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection sent a letter Thursday to a House Republican in an effort to learn more about a tour he led of the building the day before the deadly attack.
THOMASVILLE — In the race for the Republican nomination for state superintendent of schools, Richard Woods wants to retain his seat. John Barge wants it back.
ATLANTA — In the second week of early voting in the 2022 primary election, Georgia’s Secretary of State has reported record-breaking numbers.
ATLANTA – Sonny Perdue isn’t your typical University System of Georgia (USG) chancellor.
THOMASVILLE — As much as the Republican candidates for Raphael Warnock’s U.S. Senate seat are trying to set themselves as the best opponent for the incumbent, they also have their sights set on the apparent front-runner.
THOMASVILLE — Three Republican challengers laid out their cases for Thomas County voters to choose them to replace Brad Raffensperger as Georgia’s secretary of state — even as Raffensperger mounts a re-election bid.
THOMASVILLE — Before a nearly capacity crowd Tuesday night at the Exchange Club Fairgrounds, Gov. Brian Kemp said he’s the best candidate to stop Stacey Abrams.
CAIRO — U.S. Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr. provided an update on congressional and agricultural issues to the Cairo Rotary and Morning Star Kiwanis Clubs as well as the Grady County Farm Bureau at The Foundry last week.
CAIRO — It was more than just having the World Series trophy on hand that was cause for celebration Friday afternoon at the Jackie Robinson Boys and Girls Club.
THOMASVILLE — Thomas County Republicans are gearing up for a colossal candidate meet-and-greet.
CAIRO — Preparations are underway for a once-in-a-lifetime event Friday afternoon at the Jackie Robinson Boys & Girls Club.
THOMASVILLE — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could spell dire consequences for other areas of the world, and not just Ukraine’s European neighbors, U.S. Rep. Austin Scott said Tuesday.
THOMASVILLE — What Herschel Walker really wanted to be, he said, was a Marine.
THOMASVILLE — The message Stacey Abrams is carrying to voters in 2022 isn’t far removed from the one she had four years ago.
ANDREWS, Texas (AP) — Nine people died in a fiery, head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university who were returning home from a golf tournament, authorities said.
THOMASVILLE — With a motor home that is gaining attention for its message, Kandiss Taylor is trying to take her message to all corners of Georgia.
ATLANTA — Hoping his story will never be forgotten, Georgia civil rights leaders and lawmakers have named Feb. 23 Ahmaud Arbery Day.
CAIRO — Though he’s been Georgia’s agriculture commissioner for 11 years, Gary Black is going around the state on what he called “a job interview.”
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The three men convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting were found guilty of federal hate crimes Tuesday for violating Arbery’s civil rights and targeting him because he was Black.
CAIRO — As former Sen. David Perdue welcomed the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, he also has welcomed the challenge of trying to unseat an incumbent governor.
ATLANTA — Georgia will be using majority of its $13 million from a multi-state opioid settlement to expand treatment programs and opioid detox services.
The year’s legislative session in the Georgia General Assembly is well underway. We resumed our work at the State Capitol on Tuesday, February 1. This was our fourth week of session, making us at more than a quarter of the way through the legislative session. While the House convened Tuesday…
ATLANTA — Telemedicine became a widely used service during the pandemic, but Georgia lawmakers want to return to requiring a woman to be in-person for abortion services.
AUSTIN, Texas — In the first days of early voting ahead of the March 1 primary election, officials in Texas' most populous county said they flagged nearly 38% of completed primary ballots as noncompliant with the state's new, more restrictive, election laws.
CAIRO, Ga. — A dedication ceremony was held recently for two historical markers erected in honor of baseball legend Jackie Robinson.
The General Assembly convened for the third week of the 2022 legislative session on Monday, January 24. Session is in full swing, and the pace certainly picked up last week.
ATLANTA — One topic Georgia legislators from both sides of the aisle seem to agree on is the need for mental health reform.
ATLANTA — Georgia Senate Republicans plan to push legislation against lenient riot response and social media censorship as part of its priorities this legislative session.
ATLANTA — In her first public campaign outing Wednesday, Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams slammed Gov. Brian Kemp’s leadership, calling him a failed governor.
ATLANTA— During a Georgia Department of Corrections budget hearing Wednesday, Commissioner Timothy Ward briefly hit on one of the many challenges of the embattled department — staffing shortages.
ATLANTA — Amid an investigation into conditions inside Georgia prisons, launched in September, state lawmakers are taking steps to mitigate issues in the state's embattled corrections systems.
ATLANTA — Standing on grounds once walked by the late Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta just days before the observance of his birthday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris backed Senate Democrats' push for federal voting laws.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced Friday to life in prison, with a judge denying any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the deadly pursuit of the 25-year-old Black man.
ATLANTA — Following Gov. Brian Kemp’s signature last week on Georgia’s new redistricting maps, civil rights groups and attorneys filed a lawsuit claiming the maps violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter on Sunday banned the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for multiple violations of its COVID-19 misinformation policy, according to a statement from the company.
ATLANTA — With two more rural hospitals in Georgia closing in 2021, a push is on to raise the annual cap on the state’s rural hospital tax credit from $60 million to $100 million.
ATLANTA — Georgia is throwing money and manpower at the latest surge in coronavirus.
ATLANTA (AP) — Johnny Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state legislature to become a U.S. senator known as an effective, behind-the-scenes consensus builder, died Sunday. He was 76.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — All three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted of murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting that became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors on Wednesday convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their neighborhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice.
BRUNSWICK, Ga.— Jurors — 11 white and one Black — will begin deliberating Tuesday the fate of three white men accused of killing a Black man in the street of their Brunswick, Georgia neighborhood.
ATLANTA — Georgia’s new voting district map for the next 10 years is on its way to Gov. Brian Kemp's desk, following the General Assembly’s approval Monday of the Republican-led redistricting plan.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Attorneys on Monday offered their final words to the jury in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, with the prosecution saying that three white men chased him solely “because he was a Black man running down their street” and the defense repeatedly blaming Arbery for his own death.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The man who killed Ahmaud Arbery testified Thursday that Arbery did not speak, show a weapon or threaten him in any way before he raised his shotgun and pointed it at the 25-year-old Black man.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The defendant who fired the shotgun that killed Ahmaud Arbery took the stand Wednesday as defense attorneys began presenting their case in the murder trial of three men, saying, “I want to give my side of the story.”
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The shotgun blasts that hit Ahmaud Arbery punched a gaping hole in his chest and unleashed massive bleeding, a medical examiner testified Tuesday as jurors saw autopsy photos that showed Arbery's white T-shirt stained entirely red.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — A judge denied mistrial requests Monday at the trial of three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery after defense attorneys claimed jurors were tainted by weeping from the gallery where the slain Black man's parents sat with the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of three white men charged in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing watched security camera videos Thursday that show other people entering a home under construction in the months before the 25-year-old Black man was chased and gunned down after running from the site.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — One of the three white men standing trial for the death of Ahmaud Arbery said they had the 25-year-old Black man “trapped like a rat” before he was fatally shot, a police investigator testified Wednesday.
ATLANTA — New voting district maps for Georgia's House and Senate are moving right along despite much debate and opposition to the Republican-led proposals.
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Lenford Neil Willis, died peacefully in his home in Vonore, TN, May 8, 2022. He was born in 1947 in Thomasville, GA to the late Eva Mae & Buster Willis. He is survived by his wife, Patricia; his son, Greg & Lauren Willis, with grandchildren, Ben & Charlie who reside in Austin, TX…
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