There was a lot of news across Georgia on Monday. If you’ve missed some in your local patch, here’s a rundown of the top stories from the last 24 hours.
The new petition arrives two months after another request argued that Wheeler, named after a Confederate general, replaces his name.
A press release issued Monday at the Georgia Department of Health noted that the number of cases had fallen from a peak last July.
The DeKalb County Health Council has shown its first human case of West Nile virus infection in the county during the year.
Mercedes-Benz USA donated backpacks before the first day of Monday.
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Warning of boiling water raised through the city of Guangzhou
Milton firefighters look for virtual ‘starter reader’
Atlanta calls on Governor Kemp to narrow the virtual divide
Marietta Man, 84, in hospital after the driving force of the motor club crashed
Driver shot in Midtown in line with passenger
More than a hundred academics quarantined at Georgia High School
Buckhead Restaurant 10 open ass
Vehicle homicide rate in connection with Norcross fatal accident
Grayson Standout Smith medically disqualified from GA technical team
Lane closures this week on Ga.400 on Pilgrim Mill Road
Fulton County schools welcome new principals
Sandy Springs looks for comments on the North End Mall
Cherokee students receive state honors by Duke TIP
Defiant Dejoy says he probably wouldn’t repair mail sorting machines
Back to school for students without Internet: from Consumer Reports
Why renting a motorhome is part of your Labor Day weekend plans
Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura target U.S. Gulf Coast.
GOP 2020 Convention Guide: Speakers, Schedules, What to Expect
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Quake Lewellyn, 28, a third-generation farmer, remained silent as he climbed the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse with an orange jumpsuit and a bulletproof vest. According to the pool reporters in the courtroom, Arkansas state police officer Mike McNeal spoke and told the ruling that Llewellyn said he saw Sutherland on the road while driving, subsidized her and forced her into her truck. Police and volunteers searched Sutherland for approximately 3 days and Lewellyn reportedly joined a Facebook organization committed to the effort.
More than two dozen former Republican members of Congressional Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Biden’s crusade announced Monday that former Republican seed Jeff Flake and others joined the “Republicans for Biden” effort while backing the former vice president in the 2020 election, Fox News reports. “These former members of Congress Joe Biden because they know what’s at stake in this election and why Trump’s mistakes as president have replaced partisanship,” the crusade told Fox News.
Large wildfires are ravaging parts of California, threatening the homes and lives of many in the northern part of the state. The rise of chimneys has been brutal, even for California, a state traditionally known as a seedbed. Two chimney complexes have the time and third largest place in state history, while the total number of chimneys has increased to more than 650 in the following week.
The sergeant at Fort Hood. Brother Fernandes, 23, was last seen on August 17, when his staff sergeant dropped him off at his home in Killeen, Texas. He had recently been discharged from the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, according to KWKT-TV, it is not known why he was hospitalized. It was reported that Fernandes lacked after he was unable to exhibit paintings at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas on August 18.
Richard Spencer, a prominent neo-Nazi who coined the term “alt-right,” said over the weekend that he would vote for Joe Biden in the November election. “I plan to vote for Biden and a purely democratic ticket,” Spencer tweeted on Sunday. Biden’s crusade strongly disavowed Spencer’s approval soon after, describing him as a component of the “vile forces of hatred that came out of the rocks” in the United States.
The contraction of the coronavirus once would probably not be the end of the road that we once thought it might be. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors have reported that some patients have contracted a coronavirus, recovered and re-contracted it. But coronavirus reinfections were not shown until Monday, when researchers in Hong Kong announced that a patient with restored coronavirus had contracted the disease again.
Mike Pompeo’s planned speech at the Republican National Convention this week sparked a rage of grievances for breaking decades of precedent for serving secretaries of state avoiding any open partisan political activity. Despite the State Department’s assurances that Pompeo will speak in a non-public capacity and will not violate bans on federal workers participating in public political events in office, Democrats and others have shouted badly. Four groups of lawyers, who added the State Department’s legal counsel, reviewed the speech, which will be recorded in Jerusalem and broadcast Tuesday at the highest hearing at the Republican conference to make sure it doesn’t cross the moral lines, according to a user close to Pompeo. which is not legal to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.