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1+ hour, 14+ min ago (220+ words) The Georgia Bulldogs football team is gearing up for another National Championship run in the College Football Playoff, and their counterparts on the hardwood are also off to a fantastic start to their season. The Dawgs" men"s basketball program picked up its eighth win of the season on Saturday afternoon with a dominant 84-65 win against the Cincinnati Bearcats in State Farm Arena down in Atlanta, Georgia. The Dawgs were led in scoring by junior point guard Blue Cain, who racked up 22 points, 5 assists, and 5 rebounds while shooting 5/12 from the field and sinking 12 of his 14 free throws. As a unit, Georgia shot 50% from the field while holding the Bearcats to 35%, and also managed to out-rebound their Big 12 foes 41 to 37 on the day, with sophomore big man Somto Cyril leading the way with 7 boards. This dominant showing follows up the 107-73 beatdown…...

6+ hour, 10+ min ago (787+ words) State investigators have determined a member of the State Election Board violated the board's code of conduct by attending a Donald Trump campaign rally last year at Georgia State University. The Georgia Office of Inspector General report found that Vice Chair Janice Johnston created an appearance of a conflict of interest by attending a partisan event. Investigators wrote that "a reasonable person could conclude that Johnston was, at minimum, displaying partisan support for a candidate or more significantly, that Johnston had endorsed President Trump." Trump lauded members Johnston, Janelle King and Rick Jeffares at the Atlanta rally in August 2024, calling them "pit bulls fighting for honesty, transparency and victory." Johnston told Trump "your courage is contagious," according to the inspector general's report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The findings come as the Republican-controlled board that lawmakers have labeled dysfunctional has…...

8+ hour, 10+ min ago (1190+ words) What started as the first day of routine monitoring and surveying of the North Atlantic right whale off Georgia's coast ended up as a mission to free one that was entangled in fishing gear. Responders from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, among others, helped disentangle a 3-year-old male known as "Division" over two days earlier this month. Division is one of just 380 North Atlantic right whales believed to be left, making them one of the rarest species on Earth. State wildlife officials in Georgia and Florida have teamed up for more than two decades to survey the right whales " mostly females " as they migrate to the Southeastern U.S. coast from Canada during the winter months. Here, mothers give birth to their calves in waters that stretch from North Carolina to near Cape Canaveral, Florida. The core calving grounds are in…...

8+ hour, 10+ min ago (686+ words) Sequoyah Middle School teacher Jonathan Peraza Campos said he has children coming into his classroom almost every single day anxious and crying after a loved one was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That's why he had a hotline number for a community organization helping immigrant families posted in his classroom " until a school administrator told him to remove it and not to talk about ICE at school, he said....

9+ hour, 43+ min ago (618+ words) ATHENS " Georgia is likely going to face Ole Miss in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, and some suggest it's hard to beat the same team twice in a season....

12+ hour, 55+ min ago (722+ words) ATLANTA " Georgia basketball is back on the court from an 11-day break after its most complete game of the season. The Bulldogs play Cincinnati on Saturday Dec. 13, in State Farm Arena in the Holiday Hoopsgiving event. Georgia (8-1) crushed Florida State on the road 107-73 on Dec. 2 and hasn't played since then during a break for final exams. Guard Jeremiah Wilkinson said the Bulldogs have tried "to stay grounded" and continued to work in the practice gym. "I think both teams will be super locked in," Georgia coach Mike White said. "It's a great opportunity for both of us." Cincinnati (6-3) is coming off a 79-74 loss to rival Xavier'on Dec. 5. Georgia beat Xavier, 78-77, Nov. 21 in Charleston. The Bearcats, under fifth-year coach Wes Miller, also lost to Louisville and at home to Eastern Michigan. Their best win is over Dayton. Georgia beat Grand Canyon…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (179+ words) Jacksonville State Gamecocks (4-4) at Georgia State Panthers (1-9) Atlanta; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST Gamecocks -5.5; over/under is 136.5 BOTTOM LINE: Georgia State looks to stop its six-game slide when the Panthers take on Jacksonville State. The Panthers have gone 1-1 in home games. Georgia State allows 76.9 points and has been outscored by 12.8 points per game. The Gamecocks are 0-1 on the road. Jacksonville State is eighth in the CUSA scoring 76.0 points per game and is shooting 43.1%. Georgia State is shooting 34.2% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points lower than the 35.6% Jacksonville State allows to opponents. Jacksonville State averages 9.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.0 more made shots on average than the 7.3 per game Georgia State allows. TOP PERFORMERS: Micah Tucker is scoring 11.7 points per game and averaging 1.8 rebounds for the Panthers. Ayouba Berthe is averaging 1.6 made 3-pointers. Mostapha El Moutaouakkil is averaging 19 points and 7.6 rebounds for…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago (605+ words) Former Georgia high school football players Gunner Stockton and Caleb Downs finished in the top 10 of Heisman Trophy voting, with spots 5 to 10 announced Thursday. Stockton, the Georgia quarterback from Rabun County, and Downs, the Ohio State safety from Mill Creek, are the 25th and 26th Georgia players to make the Heisman top 10 since former Georgia Tech star running back Clint Castleberry of Atlanta's Boys High became the first in 1942. Georgia players have landed on the list 35 times....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1048+ words) A disturbing pattern of driverless cars rolling past stopped school buses has revealed a new kind of dilemma on Atlanta's streets. Since May, Atlanta Public Schools has reported six cases in which Waymo's autonomous vehicles drove past school buses with their stop arms extended, most recently on Nov. 11. No injuries have been reported, district spokesperson Seth Coleman said, but the instances are dangerous for kids loading and unloading....

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