5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (323+ words) Convicted killer Stacey Humphreys is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 16. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, Humphreys will be put to death at 7 p.m. that night at the Georgia Diagnostic and classification Prison. But before he receives the lethal…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (310+ words) ELKINS – The Augusta Heritage Center has announced that Executive Director Seth Young is leaving the organization after seven years of service. Young is stepping down to pursue a new professional opportunity, an Augusta Heritage Center press release states. Since taking…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (757+ words) As Georgia’s college campuses are bustling with students again, this edition of the AJC On Campus roundup begins with a $250,000 settlement. Skuraton, GSU’s director of student wellness and health promotion, objected to the decision. She told an administrator that failing…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (169+ words) Georgia Southern University College of Education Dean Amy Lingo, Ed.D., was appointed to the Georgia Literacy Task Force by Georgia Speaker of the House Jon Burns (R-Newington). Lingo is one of three people appointed by Speaker Burns to serve a…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (169+ words) Frank Yerby is a well-known novelist who has written and published 33 books, including The Vixens and The Foxes of Harrow, which was the first novel by an African American to sell more than a million copies, according to historians. However,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (262+ words) (The Center Square) – Georgia will receive between $100 million and $135 million from a $17.1 billion settlement with Meta Platforms announced Wednesday, Attorney General Chris Carr said. Forty-seven states, Washington, D.C. and three territories were involved in various levels of litigation against the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (474+ words) That increase has sharpened attention on a permit category that many residents previously had little reason to follow. For Georgia data centers, the permitting debate turns on whether backup power equipment should be treated as a limited operational safeguard or…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1175+ words) ATLANTA — Data centers are a financial boon to communities, according to the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, which is pushing back on concerns about their impact on the environment, on utility bills and on their neighbors. The pro-business organization is launching…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (310+ words) AUGUSTA, Wis. (WLAX/WEUX) - For the past four years, CORBA, or Community for Outdoor Recreation, Biking, and Adventure, has hosted its Coon Fork 40 event, bringing cyclists from across Wisconsin and beyond to ride the trails. "It's going to be 80 degrees,…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (443+ words) Georgia child welfare officials and juvenile court judges testified before state lawmakers Thursday in the first of several planned public hearings led by a committee evaluating the “escalating costs of foster care.” The hearing follows the creation of a new,…...