-News Release- The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed two additional measles cases associated with the outbreak at a metro Atlanta daycare. This brings the outbreak total to 10 cases. Including these additional cases, Georgia has 16 confirmed measles cases so far in 2026. DPH continues to work to i...

-News Release- Last week, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) called for a statewide moratorium on all data center construction after visiting the proposed site of OpenAI's new 3.2-gigawatt data center in Effingham County. Ahead of this announcement, the Senator met with several residents who raised serious co...

-News Release- The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed three additional measles cases associated with the measles case confirmed August 18, for a total of 8 cases associated with the current outbreak. This outbreak is associated with a daycare setting in the metro Atlanta area; the children were eit...

-Cherokee County, Alabama Sheriff's Office- On Tuesday afternoon, deputies went to a campground in the Wildwood Cove area off County Road 182 to serve a warrant for the Floyd County Sheriff's Office in Georgia. Deputies located 33-year-old Eric Carl Virta of Cartersville, Georgia. When they attempted to take him into c...

-WEIS Radio- A Texas man charged with first-degree rape and first-degree sexual abuse was unlawfully present in the United States, according to authorities. The Cedar Bluff Police Department identified the suspect as 39-year-old Sudip Hamal of Corsicana, Texas. Police began investigating after responding to an incident...