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November 9, 2018 at 7:52 pm

Georgia Democrat searching for votes days after election WATCH

ATLANTA (AP) — In a frantic search by phone and on foot, volunteers have been trying to find ballots that could help Democrat Stacey Abrams...

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November 9, 2018 at 12:03 am

Volunteers track down Georgia voters by phone and on foot WATCH

ATLANTA (AP) — Volunteers spread out Friday trying to find any ballots that could help Democrat Stacey Abrams close the gap against Republican Brian Kemp...

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November 8, 2018 at 6:44 am

Mother on a mission: Gun control advocate wins US House race

ATLANTA (AP) — In a campaign ad pierced by the sound of gunfire, Lucy McBath earlier this year laid out the story of her 17-year-old...

November 7, 2018 at 9:32 am

Broken voting machines, long lines under scrutiny in Georgia

ATLANTA (AP) — Malfunctioning voting machines, missing power cords and hourslong lines at the polls are being scrutinized by candidates and election officials in Georgia,...

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October 31, 2018 at 10:00 pm

Oprah, Pence offer competing visions of ‘Georgia values’

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — In a rousing speech in the Republican-leaning suburbs of Atlanta, Oprah Winfrey urged voters on Thursday to make history by backing...

October 30, 2018 at 7:05 am

Farmers fear it will take years to recover from storm strike

ATLANTA (AP) — Hurricane Michael left a snowy landscape of ruined white cotton on Georgia's red clay, destroying a crop and likely bringing hard times...

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CORRECTS NAME TO LISA, NOT MELODY – Lisa Rawson looks over the possessions she grabbed from her first-floor apartment in Myrtle Beach, S.C., which are now spread out at a campground at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, and her two dogs and a cockatoo Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 in Hampton, Ga. She had a tire blow-out in her minivan before arriving around 3 a.m. Wednesday at the speedway, which has invited hurricane evacuees to stay at its vast campgrounds. (AP Photo/Jeff Martin) GAJM101 GAJM101

September 12, 2018 at 9:24 pm

Speedways, makeshift shelters offer rest to storm evacuees WATCH

HAMPTON, Ga. — Some of the Southerners escaping Hurricane Florence have found refuge in makeshift shelters, including campgrounds at three of the nation's largest motor...

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September 12, 2018 at 2:58 pm

Storm evacuees find refuge at speedways, makeshift shelters WATCH

HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — Pieces of hurricane evacuee Melody Rawson's South Carolina life are now spread out on a grassy field, a slab of concrete...

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September 11, 2018 at 9:26 pm

East Coast hurricane scenario showed potential for disaster

ATLANTA (AP) — Just months ago, disaster planners simulated a Category 4 hurricane strike alarmingly similar to the real-word scenario now unfolding on a dangerously...

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FILE – In this Sept. 11, 2005, file photo, homes remain surrounded by floodwaters in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Some experts are concerned that Hurricane Florence could inflict damage comparable to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina in a part of the country that is famously difficult to evacuate, months after disaster planners simulated a Category 4 Hurricane strike alarmingly similar to the real-word scenario now unfolding on a stretch of the East Coast. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, Pool, File) NYAG209 NYAG209

September 11, 2018 at 12:02 pm

In simulation, Category 4 hurricane devastated East Coast

"What they were trying to do was create a worst-case scenario, but it's a very realistic scenario," said Joshua Behr, a research professor at Virginia's...

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