SAVANNAH — The Savannah Police Department is asking for the public’s help finding a 14-year-old boy who has been missing since Wednesday. Jacob Eli Davis was last seen around 3 p.m. Wednesday on the 4000 block of Ogeechee Road wearing blue jeans, a black hoody and black tennis shoes. Jacob is 5’10” and weighs about […]
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Missing Griffin 2-year-old found safe
A 2-year-old Georgia girl who was the subject of an AMBER alert yesterday has been found safe. According to the Griffin Police Department, 2-year-old Amina Cole was found “safe and healthy.” A second child was also found with Cole an her mother that police were not aware was also missing. The children’s mother, Johnetta Leigh […]
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Obesity is a major factor in severe coronavirus illness
Obesity has emerged as a major predictor of severe COVID-19 illness, according to new research. Phoebe’s chief medical officer, Dr. Steven Kitchen, said the hospital has not yet gathered precise data on obesity rates of coronavirus patients. But he told GHN on Thursday that “a disproportionate percentage of our critically ill patients in our ICUs […]
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Cobb County reaches 1,000 coronavirus case mark
Cobb County is the latest county in Georgia to surpass 1,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Cobb now has 1,014 confirmed cases and 49 deaths, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health. The county has the fourth highest number of cases in the state and the third highest number of deaths. Fulton County still has […]
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Marietta Police seeking witnesses to morning motorcycle crash
The Marietta Police Department is investigating a serious injury crash that occurred at 9:19 a.m. today at the intersection of Fairground Street and South Marietta Parkway, and they need the public’s help determining what happened. According to the Police Department, the preliminary on-scene investigation revealed that a 2002 Acura MDX operated by 66-year-old Gwenetta Smith […]
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DeKalb County prisoner escapes from Grady Memorial Hospital
DECATUR — A DeKalb County inmate is on the loose after he escaped from Grady Memorial Hospital while receiving medical care. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Unit is asking for the public’s assistance in locating the escaped kidnapping suspect. The inmate, 35 year-old Decatur resident Torinto Antoine Christian, was arrested on Monday, April 13 […]
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Trump names both of Georgia’s senators to congressional coronavirus task force
Georgia’s two U.S. senators are among more than 50 members of Congress named by President Donald Trump Thursday to a bipartisan task force that will advise him on when and how to reopen the U.S. economy. Trump already has two advisory groups working to help shape America’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic: the original COVID-19 […]
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Why are the grocery store shelves really empty?
While all industries have been seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, food and agriculture have been among the hardest hit segments of the U.S. economy. The primary reason lies in the composition of household food expenditures. The impacts of the pandemic appear to vary by commodity based on two critical issues: perishability and labor use. Perishables […]
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Standoff at Super 8 in Augusta ends in gunfire
A standoff between law enforcement officers and a man they had come to do a welfare check on ended in gunfire after the man allegedly fired his weapon at SWAT team members, who returned fire killing the man. On Wednesday, April 15 at about 11:50 p.m., the Georgia Bureau of Investigation was asked by the […]
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Mail thieves caught stealing from free-standing mailbox in Roswell
ROSWELL — The Roswell Police Department caught two men breaking into a freestanding blue mailbox on Brannon Square in Roswell during the overnight hours of April 6. Detectives recovered a large quantity of stolen mail, and fear there may be more unknowing victims. Police ask that anyone who dropped off checks or other forms of […]