Chatham County emergency facility still unfinished as peak hurricane season nears

After years of anticipation, the walls of Chatham County’s long-awaited emergency operations facility are standing tall. But county officials remain elusive about the facility’s progress, even as another hurricane season advances without a storm-proof center. The Current GA reached out on June 13 to county commission Chairman Chester Ellis — as well as the Chatham Emergency Management Agency to speak with CEMA Director Dennis Jones and 911 Center Director Diane Pinckney — to discuss facility updates. County spokesperson Will Peebles replied via email, offering to organize interviews with the three officials. The Current has not confirmed an interview with Jones, Pinckney or Ellis despite multiple phone calls, voicemails and emails to Peebles.

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Source: The Current GA

Georgia-based Flock announces changes amid backlash over its license plate reader network

The company operates a vast nationwide network of automated cameras that record the license plate numbers and other characteristics of all passing vehicles every day. Thousands of law enforcement agencies in 49 states can search and share Flock’s data across jurisdictions to aid their investigations. Police have credited the technology as an important crime-fighting innovation that has helped locate missing people and track suspects in violent crimes. But some critics say its pervasiveness amounts to unconstitutional warrantless mass surveillance. Dozens of cities and agencies have nixed their relationships with Flock amid concerns that the data can be accessed for immigration enforcement or used in unauthorized tracking, after a flurry of examples surfaced of law enforcement officers misusing the technology for personal searches.

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Source: The Current GA

1 arrested in AM shooting that put Beach High School on lockdown

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Beach High School was on lockdown Friday morning following a shooting that occurred in the surrounding neighborhood. The Savannah Police Department (SPD) and Savannah-Chatham County Public School System Police Department responded to secure the scene.

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Source: WSAV Savannah

Sandy Springs police investigate Saturday morning double shooting on Roswell Rd

Two people were shot Saturday morning on Roswell Rd in Sandy Springs, as police investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.

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Source: 11Alive Atlanta

Georgia officials say new federal Medicaid rules threaten state’s partial expansion program

Georgia health officials are asking the Trump administration for more funding for the state’s partial Medicaid expansion program because they say federal changes are expected to increase enrollment by about 100,000 people, raising the costs of the program. The Board of Community Health, which oversees Georgia’s Medicaid program, announced at its Thursday meeting that they are once again asking the federal government to increase the federal match from about 67% to 90%, which is what states that have fully expanded Medicaid receive for providing coverage to a larger population.

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Source: Georgia Recorder

Georgia Trend Daily – Aug. 14, 2026

Trevor Williams reports, when Belgian pharmaceuticals firm UCB announced its $2 billion investment in Gwinnett County this year, few Georgians knew the company had already been in the state for three decades. That changed when the “sleeping giant” awoke with a plan to create 330 more jobs at Rowen, a new development focused on life sciences innovation, said Mark Smith, head of government affairs. Jack Rutherfor reports, at a stately government building just outside the Gold Dome in downtown Atlanta, a little-known government technology authority occupies three of the seven floors. That agency is the Georgia Technology Authority . Best known for providing general IT services to other departments in state government, it now sits in the driver’s seat of rolling out and vetting Georgia’s use of artificial intelligence.

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Source: Georgia Trend

Optimus previews digital twin of US freight network

Optimus Technology Inc. on Thursday previewed a digital twin of the U.S. freight network built to model how disruptions and structural changes ripple across corridors, facilities and commodities. The freight digital twin, called the Freight Intelligence Graph, is under development at the Austin, Texas-based company. The prototype models roughly 350,000 U.S. highway-network nodes and nearly 1 million directed road segments. It runs on top of Optimus’s proprietary freight data foundation. That layer maps more than 450,000 geocoded shipper and receiver roles across nearly 400,000 facility locations. It covers more than 500,000 distinct directional city-to-city corridor combinations.

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Source: FreightWaves Port/Logistics

Exclusive: Reps. Tenney, Malliotakis Warn Socialism Gaining Ground with Young Voters, Point to Mamdani Agenda

Reps. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) and Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) are warning that socialist ideas are gaining traction among young Americans as the country heads toward the midterm elections, pointing to the education system, the appeal of “free stuff,” and the experiences of countries including Cuba, Venezuela, and the former Yugoslavia as they argue against bringing similar policies to the United States. Tenney and Malliotakis discussed the rise of socialism and left-wing politics in an upcoming episode of the Republican Study Committee’s Right to the Point podcast. Breitbart News obtained an advance transcript of the interview ahead of its release.

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Source: Breitbart Immigration

Deep Dive Into What's Really Going On In Georgia November Politics With BKP

L. Todd Wood sits down with BKP for a deep dive into what's really happening in Georgia November politics — not the mainstream media narrative. The real story from the ground.

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Early voting begins in special election runoff to fill late Congressman David Scott's seat

Voters in Georgia's 13th Congressional District headed to the polls Saturday. Election Day is Aug. 25th.

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Source: 11Alive Atlanta

Ken Paxton: 'If We Lose Texas, the Senate's Gone'

Paxton says lawmakers understand the threat but warns it comes down to political courage: "It's just a matter of having the courage to do it." Texas Senate seat could flip the entire chamber.

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Grocery cart divide: How rural, urban America sort themselves

I tested 21 consumer preferences, retail patterns, and demographic measures against county and state level returns from 2024, combining relative search interest from Google Trends with the election results. Nineteen of the 21 were statistically significant. Taken together they describe a rural-urban split that is not just about who governs, but about how people live, eat, and shop. That distinction matters for anyone who cares about rural communities, because it shapes how campaigns court them and which businesses decide to invest in them. The pattern was consistent and, frankly, not surprising to anyone who has lived in a small town: shelf stable and homemade foods such as Velveeta, SPAM, Miracle Whip, biscuits and gravy, and no-bean chili tracked rural, Republican leaning places. Refrigerated and imported foods such as brie, pesto, prosciutto, and avocado toast tracked dense, Democratic leaning ones. For the sake of this analysis, rural is defined as counties outside of the Office and Management and Budget’s Metropolitan Statistical Areas.

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Source: The Current GA

Borderlands Mexico: ANPACT warns tariffs threaten truck trade as exports surge

Borderlands Mexico is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week in Borderlands Mexico: ANPACT warns tariffs threaten truck trade as exports surge; Stonepeak acquires rail-served logistics property in Fort Worth; and Green Tide Logistics launches Mexico-US maritime corridor. Mexico’s heavy-duty truck industry posted sharp gains in production, exports and wholesale sales during July, signaling improving momentum for manufacturers despite weaker retail demand and softer year-to-date totals.

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Source: FreightWaves Port/Logistics

‘Perfectly in line with Constitution:’ Right defends Bible in Texas public schools after lawsuit

The state of Texas is being sued for the second time this year over Senate Bill 10 requiring Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. Texas is being sued over a state law requiring all public schools to display the biblical Ten Commandments, igniting discussion over the role of religion in K-12 public schools.

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Source: Just The News

1 injured in Emory Drive shooting, Savannah police official says

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — The Savannah Police Department is investigating a shooting that left one adult male with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg. At around 7:10 p.m., police responded to Barjan Terrace Park based on a shots fired call. While on scene, officers were informed of a walk-in patient with a gunshot wound at Candler Hospital. It was determined that the patient was connected to the shots fired call.

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Source: WSAV Savannah

Lowndes Co. Property Transactions  Aug. 15

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Source: Valdosta Daily Times

Hospital prepayment requirements add new wrinkles to patients’ financial responsibility

When making the appointment, Zordani said, he’d been told the clinic was in his insurer’s network. Upon arrival, Zordani was summoned to the clinic’s financial office and told he had to make a $5,000 preservice deposit, because Mayo had since determined it did not accept his insurance. He was automatically designated “self-pay,” even though his plan had out-of-network benefits. Not having that kind of cash on hand — and angry on principle — he refused. His appointment was canceled.

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Source: The Current GA

Hospital prepayment requirements add new wrinkles to patients’ financial responsibility

When making the appointment, Zordani said, he’d been told the clinic was in his insurer’s network. Upon arrival, Zordani was summoned to the clinic’s financial office and told he had to make a $5,000 preservice deposit, because Mayo had since determined it did not accept his insurance. He was automatically designated “self-pay,” even though his plan had out-of-network benefits. Not having that kind of cash on hand — and angry on principle — he refused. His appointment was canceled.

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Source: The Current GA

Georgia officials say new federal Medicaid rules threaten state’s partial expansion program

The Board of Community Health, which oversees Georgia’s Medicaid program, announced at its Thursday meeting that they are once again asking the federal government to increase the federal match from about 67% to 90%, which is what states that have fully expanded Medicaid receive for providing coverage to a larger population. The state argued both at the meeting and in its public notice that new federal guidelines for Medicaid eligibility that were included in President Donald Trump’s tax break and spending cuts package that passed last year would make the state’s Medicaid program financially unsustainable. The new federal Medicaid rules take effect next year.

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Source: The Current GA

LIVE at 2pm EST — It's CHYNA! Roger Stone joins The Georgia Show, immediately followed by a special broadcast.

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FBI seeks truck drivers nationwide who may be victims in 54-count tax fraud case

A Georgia tax preparer gained clients throughout the trucking industry through word-of-mouth referrals. Federal prosecutors claim that trust later exposed at least 26 people to an extensive tax scheme. Most identified clients worked as self-employed truck drivers who relied on her company for essential filings. The FBI now wants other potential victims to come forward. Diane Marie Poe, 62, owns Genuine Financial Services in Walton County, Georgia. Her company offered bookkeeping, payroll management, tax preparation and filing assistance. Customers provided GFS with money intended for estimated obligations or employee-related assessments. Prosecutors accuse Poe of keeping those funds instead of delivering promised services.

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Source: FreightWaves Port/Logistics