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Georgia Power breach hits 300,000 customer accounts
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Isaias clouds Georgia-Alabama showdown as Trump plans to attend From the HERE City State Desk

Isaias clouds Georgia-Alabama showdown as Trump plans to attend

No. 2 Georgia and No. 6 Alabama still plan to play Saturday night in Tuscaloosa, even as Tropical Storm Isaias threatens to bring heavy rain, wind and possible flooding to the Southeast this

HERE City State Desk • 5 hours ago
Dodgers beat Braves 4-1, advance to third straight NLCS From the HERE City National Desk

Dodgers beat Braves 4-1, advance to third straight NLCS

Andy Pages delivered a two-run single with the bases loaded in the seventh inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 4-1 on Wednesday night at Truist Park to win their N

HERE City National Desk • 4 hours ago
Kasey Kahne returns to NASCAR full time in Spire truck for 2027 From the HERE City National Desk

Kasey Kahne returns to NASCAR full time in Spire truck for 2027

Kasey Kahne is coming back to NASCAR full time. Spire Motorsports announced Wednesday that the 46-year-old, an 18-time Cup Series winner, will drive its No. 77 Chevrolet Silverado in the

HERE City National Desk • 4 hours ago
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Georgia colleges post record degrees and job placement From the HERE City State Desk

Georgia colleges post record degrees and job placement

Georgia's public colleges are reporting record results, with the University System of Georgia awarding more degrees than ever and the state's technical colleges posting their strongest job p

HERE City State Desk • 5 hours ago
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Aiken, S.C., Philharmonic opens free Brandywine Brass series

AIKEN, S.C. — Music inspired by movie and TV themes will fill the Aiken High School Performing Arts Center in Aiken, S.C., at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 9, when the Aiken Philharmonic opens its Brandywine Brass series with a fr

HERE Aiken • 13 hours ago
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Pacolet Milliken buys two northeast Georgia biomass power plants From the HERE City State Desk

Pacolet Milliken buys two northeast Georgia biomass power plants

Greenville, South Carolina-based investment firm Pacolet Milliken has acquired Georgia Renewable Power, which owns two biomass power plants in northeast Georgia. The plants, one in Franklin

HERE City State Desk • 4 hours ago
Cardinal Glass to close Statesboro plant, cutting 115 jobs From the HERE City State Desk

Cardinal Glass to close Statesboro plant, cutting 115 jobs

Cardinal Glass Industries plans to close its plant in Statesboro, eliminating 115 jobs, according to a layoff notice filed with the state. The notice, posted Tuesday in Georgia's public list

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Georgia Power breach hits 300,000 customer accounts From the HERE City State Desk

Georgia Power breach hits 300,000 customer accounts

An unauthorized third party gained access to account information for roughly 300,000 Georgia Power customers through the utility's online customer portal, parent company Southern Company say

HERE City State Desk • 4 hours ago
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20 charged after nearly 1,500 guns stolen in Georgia From the HERE City State Desk

20 charged after nearly 1,500 guns stolen in Georgia

Federal prosecutors have charged 20 people in a trafficking case involving nearly 1 500 firearms stolen from shipping officials noted facilities in macon and metro atlanta the U.S. Attorney'

HERE City State Desk • 5 hours ago
Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel granted parole a third time From the HERE City National Desk

Manson follower Patricia Krenwinkel granted parole a third time

A California parole panel has granted parole to Patricia Krenwinkel, a former follower of Charles Manson, after nearly six decades in prison for her role in the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders

HERE City National Desk • 9 hours ago
Texas carries out first US execution since failed Tenn. injection From the HERE City National Desk

Texas carries out first US execution since failed Tenn. injection

Texas executed Jamaal Howard on Wednesday evening, the first execution in the United States since Tennessee failed to put Christa Pike to death with the same drug last week. Howard, 46, w

HERE City National Desk • 10 hours ago
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ICE moves to sell Oakwood warehouse bought for detention center From the HERE City State Desk

ICE moves to sell Oakwood warehouse bought for detention center

The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to sell an Oakwood warehouse it bought to turn into an immigrant detention site, and its first notice of the sale went to the wrong city. The

HERE City State Desk • 4 hours ago
Bottoms and Jackson clash in likely only Georgia governor debate From the HERE City State Desk

Bottoms and Jackson clash in likely only Georgia governor debate

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson clashed over health care, crime, data centers and election security Tuesday night in what is likely to be the only time Georgia vote

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Trump proposes presidential retreat at West Palm Beach golf club From the HERE City National Desk

Trump proposes presidential retreat at West Palm Beach golf club

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to turn his private golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, into a retreat for future presidents, describing it as a kind of Camp David. Sp

HERE City National Desk • 10 hours ago
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WHO says it lacks information to assess Russian plague lab death From the HERE City National Desk

WHO says it lacks information to assess Russian plague lab death

The World Health Organization said Wednesday it does not have enough information from Russia to judge the public health risk after a worker at a plague research laboratory in Siberia died

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