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Athens-Clarke County police block traffic and investigate at the UGA intramural Fields after the body of a women was found with visible injuries in the woods around Lake Herrick in Athens, Ga., on ...
The 2023–2024 Georgian protests are a series of street demonstrations taking place throughout Georgia largely in opposition to a proposed "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence", which requires non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to register as "agents of foreign influence" or "organizations carrying the interests of a foreign power" and disclose the sources of their income if the funds ...
Killing of Laken Riley. / 33.9279; -83.3728. On February 22, 2024, Laken Riley, a 22-year-old American nursing student at Augusta University, was abducted and killed while she was jogging at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. Her body was found in Oconee Forest Park near Lake Herrick; [1] her death was caused by blunt force trauma.
On March 16, 2021, a shooting spree occurred at two spas and a massage parlor in the metropolitan area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Eight people were killed and a ninth was wounded. A suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, was taken into custody later that day. [6] Long pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to life in prison ...
Updated March 18, 2024 at 10:12 AM. BUFORD, Ga. — The father of Laken Riley, a Georgia nursing student killed while she was jogging, is remembering her as a “strong person” who excelled in ...
e. The COVID-19 pandemic was first detected in the U.S. state of Georgia on March 2, 2020. The state's first death came ten days later on March 12. As of April 17, 2021, there were 868,163 confirmed cases, 60,403 hospitalizations, and 17,214 deaths. [1] All of Georgia's 159 counties now report COVID-19 cases, with Gwinnett County reporting over ...
The 2008 Russo-Georgian War [note 3] was a war between Russia and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia against Georgia. The war took place in August following a diplomatic crisis between Russia and Georgia, both formerly constituent republics of the Soviet Union. The fighting took place in the strategically ...
Georgia Pacific, which said it completed a "safe and orderly shutdown" of the mill in November, confirms it has accepted calls recently from companies interested in discussing the purchase of the ...