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Atlanta Dogwood Festival Faces $250,000 Shortfall and Could End After 89 Years
The Georgia Sun
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August 26, 2025
The Atlanta Dogwood Festival, a spring tradition for nearly nine decades, is in danger of ending unless it raises $250,000 by Nov. 1. Organizers warn that without emergency support, the 90th anniversary scheduled for April 2026 will not happen....
Celebrate Atlanta Black Pride with events, parties, and entertainment
Reporter Newspapers - Georgia
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August 27, 2025
Support local news in ATL Courtesy Atlanta Black Pride Since the 1980s, Black queer Atlantans have gathered during Labor Day Weekend to celebrate their own Pride. What started as pop-up picnics hosted at alternative spaces to the white-dominated...
Atlanta Dogwood Festival needs $250,000 for 2026 event
Saporta Report
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August 26, 2025
Atlanta’s most historic festival could soon be history. The Atlanta Dogwood Festival, a ritual of spring since the Great Depression, is pleading with the community to help cover a $250,000 shortfall so the nonprofit can put on the 2026 festival....
Georgia Among Top 10 U.S. States Where Infants Are Vulnerable to Rotavirus
The Georgia Sun
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August 26, 2025
A new study revealed that Georgia has the ninth lowest rotavirus vaccine coverage among U.S. states. The study, conducted by Birth Injury Lawyers Group, analyzed data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ChildVaxView Interactive...
Recognize him? Detectives in Southeast Georgia seek to identify suspect in public indecency case
WJCL TV - Georgia
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August 27, 2025
MULTIPLE CHARGES. AND IN TOOMBS COUNTY-- DEPUTIES NEED YOUR HELP IDENTIFYING THE MAN YOU CAN SEE RIGHT HERE ON YOUR SCREEN. ACCORDING TO A POST ON FACEBOOK-- THE TOOMBS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE IS INVESTIGATING THE SUSPECT FOR A PUBLIC INDECENCY...
Steve Marshall urges SCOTUS to hear student gender identity case
Alabama Political Reporter
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August 27, 2025
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined a multi-state push for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case examining whether school districts must notify parents regarding changes in their student’s gender identity. The amicus brief, signed...
Georgia Tech Safety Spins Question About Colorado Elevation Into Excuse To Bash Culture
BroBible
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August 25, 2025
© Brett Davis-Imagn Images / © Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images Audio By Carbonatix Georgia Tech will open its 2025 college football season in Boulder against Colorado. The Yellow Jackets will not be intimidated by the opposing environment. Safety...
US Health Department Orders Removal of Transgender Content from Sex Education Programs
Mezha
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August 27, 2025
A division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told 40 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia on Tuesday that they are “now under oversight”: some federally funded sex education programs must remove any mention of...
world Archaeologists in Georgia unearth 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone
Asiaone
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August 27, 2025
OROZMANI, Georgia — Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say will shed light on some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements on the Eurasian continent. The...
Federal warning: Georgia must alter sex-ed curriculum or lose millions
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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ATLANTA - Georgia is among 40 states facing the loss of federal funding for a teen sex education program unless it removes references to gender identity and transgender people from its curriculum, according to the U.S. Department of Health and...
Immigrant NYC restaurant owner mocked by rude customer over accent in viral TikTok: ‘You should speak good English’
New York Post
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August 26, 2025
An immigrant restaurant owner in New York City was mocked for her foreign accent by a cruel customer who told her to “speak good English” in a viral video. The owner of Mamali NYC, Mariam, who is from the country of Georgia, posted the bizarre and...
US Immigration Crackdown | Georgia to deploy National Guard troops to support federal ICE agents
The Economic Times
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August 27, 2025
As the immigration crackdown ramps up, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has announced the deployment of 75 National Guard troops to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The move comes as ICE arrests in Georgia have surged 367% this year,...
Labor Day in Atlanta: Chris Brown, Dragon Con, Black Pride and kickoff games Aug. 27–Sept. 2
11 Alive - Georgia
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Dragon Con, Pride, food fests, and football fill Atlanta’s Labor Day weekend. ATLANTA — Atlanta has a big Labor Day week. Dragon Con brings costumes and a downtown parade, Atlanta Black Pride fills the city with events, and college football kicks...
Georgia teen who allegedly begged Tiktok influencers to talk about her parents’ murder arrested for the killing
Island Times
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August 26, 2025
(ABC-Australia) Four months after a US couple were murdered inside their Georgia home, a TikTok crime blogger received a message. Warning: This story contains details which may be distressing for some readers. “Look up Brock case,” it read....
1.8-million-year-old human jawbone discovered in Georgia
RTE Ireland
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August 27, 2025
Archaeologists in Georgia have discovered a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say will shed light on some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements on the Eurasian continent. The Georgian site at...
Archaeologists in Georgia unearth 1.8-million-year-old human jawbone
KFGO - North Dakota
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August 27, 2025
OROZMANI, Georgia (Reuters) -Archaeologists in Georgia have unearthed a 1.8-million-year-old jawbone belonging to an early species of human that they say will shed light on some of the earliest prehistoric human settlements on the Eurasian...
Over 31,000 eligible for HE, thousands get state funding
University World News
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GEORGIA According to Georgia’s National Assessment and Examinations Center (NAEC), more than 31,700 applicants this year earned the right to continue their studies at higher education institutions, representing about 88% of all eligible...
HHS Order States to Remove Gender Ideology Content From Sex Education
Healthcare Innovation
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August 26, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announced on August 26 in a press release that it has demanded that 46 states and territories remove all references to gender...
Georgia superintendent tours Truman Elementary Early Childhood Learning Center; calls it 'second-to-none'
KADN News 15 - Louisiana
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August 26, 2025
LAFAYETTE, La. (NEWS 15) — The Lafayette Parish School System's early childhood education program is gaining attention and could soon serve as a model for other districts. A school leader from Georgia visited the Truman Elementary Early Childhood...
Georgia State Names Charnay Ryland as Women’s Track and Field Coach
BVM Sports
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August 25, 2025
Charnay Ryland has been appointed as the head coach of the women’s track and field program at Georgia State. Previously, she was an assistant coach at the University of Georgia and has significant experience coaching sprinters and hurdlers. Ryland...