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FILE – The Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America is seen on March 26, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Homeland security official says 475 people were detained during an immigration raid in Georgia

September 5, 2025 at 1:09 p.m.

Immigration authorities said Friday they detained 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, when hundreds of federal agents raided the sprawling manufacturing site in Georgia where Korean automaker Hyundai...

A sign outside the main gate of Fort Stewart, Georgia, is shown on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

Army sergeant shot 5 soldiers before he was tackled and arrested at Fort Stewart, officials say

August 6, 2025 at 3:45 p.m.

A sergeant shot five soldiers Wednesday at one the country’s largest Army bases before he was quickly tackled by other Fort Stewart troops, forcing a brief lockdown, officials said.

FILE – Julie Chrisley, right, and her husband Todd Chrisley pose for photos at the 52nd annual Academy of Country Music Awards April 2, 2017, in Las Vegas. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Trump officially pardons reality TV stars Julie and Todd Chrisley, convicted in 2022 of fraud and tax evasion

May 28, 2025 at 6:51 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed pardons for reality TV stars Julie and Todd Chrisley, who have been serving federal prison sentences since being convicted three years ago of bank...

Pope Leo XIV waves as he arrives for his first weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Can Pope Leo remain a U.S. citizen now that he’s a foreign head of state?

May 25, 2025 at 8:30 a.m.

Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first U.S.-born leader of the Catholic Church elevated him to the extremely rare, and legally thorny, position of being an American citizen who now...

People walk as snow falls in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Winter storm spreads across the Deep South, creating icy danger and snowy fun

January 22, 2025 at 5:23 p.m.

A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across the southern United States on Wednesday, breaking snow records and treating the region to unaccustomed perils and wintertime joy.

An In Memorium button for former President Jimmy Carter is seen inside the Plains Trading Post, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, in Plains, Ga. Former President Jimmy Carter died Sunday at the age of 100. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Jimmy Carter is being mourned in his tiny hometown and around the world

December 31, 2024 at 12:50 p.m.

The Carters put Plains, Ga., a town of fewer than 700 people — not much bigger than when Carter was born Oct. 1, 1924 — on the world stage.

FILE – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter poses for photographers with a water pipe filter, that is used to combat guinea worm disease, during a news conference to mark the launch of a campaign to eradicate the disease in central London, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease a top mission

December 31, 2024 at 12:50 p.m.

Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world’s poorest people: Guinea worm disease.

FILE – Residents walk past inundated vehicles in the flooded streets of Planeta, Honduras, Nov. 6, 2020, in the aftermath of Hurricane Eta. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez, File)

A third November storm, Sara, serves notice that a busy hurricane season isn’t over yet

November 17, 2024 at 10:51 a.m.

As the third named storm to emerge during November, Tropical Storm Sara serves as a reminder that the Atlantic hurricane season hasn’t quite ended.

Wilbert Gardner, left, hugs Katrena Alexander while Alexander’s daughter, Regina Brinson, right, looks on during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla, A dock gangway collapse happened as people were leaving a cultural festival on Sapelo Island, Georgia, on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. Alexander’s brother, Isaiah Thomas, was among the dead. Gardner had a friend who was hospitalized with injuries. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

Grieving families of seniors killed when a dock collapsed on a Georgia island say the tragedy was preventable

October 22, 2024 at 5:24 p.m.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, which operates the dock on Georgia's Sapelo Island, is leading the state’s investigation into why the aluminum gangway failed.

A portion of the gangway which collapsed Saturday afternoon remains visible on Sapelo Island in McIntosh county, Ga., Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Lewis Levine)

Eyewitness video captures frantic efforts to save lives after deadly collapse of dock walkway in Georgia

October 21, 2024 at 6:59 p.m.

The metal gangway where dozens of people waited to board a ferry boat on a Georgia island made a loud, creaking noise before snapping in the middle amid panicked cries...

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