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Carl Vinson VA Medical Center hosts PACT Act clinic to educate veterans on disability compensation
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center hosted a clinic in Macon on Wednesday to educate veterans on how to file for disability compensation claims and understand the benefits available to them. The clinic focused on the…
Macon Water Authority discusses flooding issues following weekend storms
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon-Bibb County residents were hit hard by heavy rainfall over the weekend, causing major flooding in many homes and businesses. The Macon Water…
Georgia Military College names Jackie Lee first female police chief in history
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Georgia Military College (GMC) has appointed Jackie Lee as its new permanent police chief, making her the first female police chief in the…
Japanese exchange students visit Dublin, participate in STEM learning
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Eighth graders at Irish Gifted Academy made some new friends from halfway around the world. Twelve foreign exchange students from Osaki, Japan toured the school’s stem lab on Tuesday. The students spent the day working with…
Miss Georgia Peach queens crowned for 2023
HAWKINSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant crowned new queens this weekend in Pulaski County. The winners will go on to represent the peach industry at functions and events across Georgia. This includes taking part in the…
Middle Georgia State University, Heart of Georgia College & Career Academy partner to offer nursing degree path for dual-enrolled high school students
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Middle Georgia State University is partnering with Heart of Georgia…
Vatican: Pope to be hospitalized for days for lung infection
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was hospitalized with a lung infection Wednesday after experiencing difficulty breathing in recent days and will remain in the hospital for several days of treatment, the Vatican said. The 86-year-old pope doesn't have COVID-19,…
PACT Act Town Hall in Macon on Wednesday to help qualifying veterans
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A PACT Act Town Hall Meeting is being held in Macon today to help Veterans. The PACT Act is new…
Sunshine is back for Middle Georgia
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Middle Georgia is seeing sunny skies for the first time since Saturday afternoon. Today Middle Georgians woke up this morning able to see the sunrise for the…
Governor Kemp tours Milledgeville tornado damage with First Lady
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp toured the damage left behind by weekend storms in Milledgeville on Tuesday morning. The National Weather Service reported an EF-1 tornado had moved through Baldwin County on…
Dry weather returns for the rest of the week in Middle Georgia
The rain has finally ended across Middle Georgia, and dry weather is here to stay for the week. Temperatures will be a little bit cooler Wednesday, with highs warming into the mid and upper 60s. A few high clouds will…
Atrium Health Navicent offering free sports physicals to Bibb County student-athletes
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Atrium Health Navicent is offering free sports physicals for student-athletes in Bibb County. The goal of the service is for students to…
Fort Valley cosmetologist to teach hair color techniques at Bronner Bros. International Beauty Show
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Fort Valley cosmetologist will be sharing her skills with thousands this weekend at the Bronner Bros. International…
American Red Cross helps Macon flood victims
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The American Red Cross is assisting Macon families in need of shelter due to recent flooding at two locations. Storms on Sunday and Monday led to the evacuations of more than 150 people from the Timber…
Toombs County Man arrested for sexual exploitation of children
VIDALIA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A Toombs County man was arrested and charged in connection to sexual exploitation of children on Thursday, March 23rd. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Joseph Prater was arrested and charged by the GBI Child…
Man wanted for Dollar General armed robbery in Macon
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a commercial armed robbery. It happened around 1:20pm Tuesday at Dollar General located at 4996 Bloomfield Road. According to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, a man approached the checkout…
Baldwin County School District, Create Inc. team up for Riding For Focus program
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Baldwin County School District and Create Inc. have partnered to provide a unique opportunity for students to learn how to ride a bike. Recently, Create Inc. received a generous grant of $35,000 from the Outride…
New Dublin High School principal named
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- The next principal of Dublin High School has been selected-- Dr. Michael Overstreet. Dublin City Schools announced the official naming of the new principal as it follows the March 27th Dublin City Board of Education meeting.…
Monroe County man busted for trafficking Meth
MONROE COUNTY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Wednesday, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at a home on Towaliga South Rd. Investigators received information that the suspect, Brooks Bass-Gainey was located at a friend’s house. Brooks Bass-Gainey was…
Local law firm donates hundreds of free meals, supplies to Milledgeville residents impacted by tornado
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A local business gave away hundreds of free meals and emergency supply kits to a community recovering…
Bibb County Sheriff's Office investigating fatal shooting at Brookhaven Apartments
UPDATE: The Bibb County Sheriff's Office says Deputy Coroner Lonnie Miley identified the victim of Wednesday's shooting as 37-year-old Christopher Matthew Rachalla. MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) —…
First Baptist Church of Centerville to stage 'The Living Last Supper' performance
CENTERVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - First Baptist Church of Centerville is preparing to stage a dramatic performance of "The Living Last Supper," a recreation of…
Carl Vinson VA Medical Center hosts PACT Act clinic to educate veterans on disability compensation
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center hosted a clinic in Macon on Wednesday to educate veterans on how to file for disability compensation claims and understand the benefits available to them. The clinic focused on the…
Macon Water Authority discusses flooding issues following weekend storms
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Macon-Bibb County residents were hit hard by heavy rainfall over the weekend, causing major flooding in many homes and businesses. The Macon Water…
Georgia Military College names Jackie Lee first female police chief in history
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Georgia Military College (GMC) has appointed Jackie Lee as its new permanent police chief, making her the first female police chief in the…
Japanese exchange students visit Dublin, participate in STEM learning
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Eighth graders at Irish Gifted Academy made some new friends from halfway around the world. Twelve foreign exchange students from Osaki, Japan toured the school’s stem lab on Tuesday. The students spent the day working with…
Miss Georgia Peach queens crowned for 2023
HAWKINSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - The Miss Georgia Peach Scholarship Pageant crowned new queens this weekend in Pulaski County. The winners will go on to represent the peach industry at functions and events across Georgia. This includes taking part in the…
Middle Georgia State University, Heart of Georgia College & Career Academy partner to offer nursing degree path for dual-enrolled high school students
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Middle Georgia State University is partnering with Heart of Georgia…
PACT Act Town Hall in Macon on Wednesday to help qualifying veterans
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A PACT Act Town Hall Meeting is being held in Macon today to help Veterans. The PACT Act is new…
Sunshine is back for Middle Georgia
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Middle Georgia is seeing sunny skies for the first time since Saturday afternoon. Today Middle Georgians woke up this morning able to see the sunrise for the…
Governor Kemp tours Milledgeville tornado damage with First Lady
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp toured the damage left behind by weekend storms in Milledgeville on Tuesday morning. The National Weather Service reported an EF-1 tornado had moved through Baldwin County on…
Dry weather returns for the rest of the week in Middle Georgia
The rain has finally ended across Middle Georgia, and dry weather is here to stay for the week. Temperatures will be a little bit cooler Wednesday, with highs warming into the mid and upper 60s. A few high clouds will…
Atrium Health Navicent offering free sports physicals to Bibb County student-athletes
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Atrium Health Navicent is offering free sports physicals for student-athletes in Bibb County. The goal of the service is for students to…
Fort Valley cosmetologist to teach hair color techniques at Bronner Bros. International Beauty Show
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A Fort Valley cosmetologist will be sharing her skills with thousands this weekend at the Bronner Bros. International…
American Red Cross helps Macon flood victims
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The American Red Cross is assisting Macon families in need of shelter due to recent flooding at two locations. Storms on Sunday and Monday led to the evacuations of more than 150 people from the Timber…
Toombs County Man arrested for sexual exploitation of children
VIDALIA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- A Toombs County man was arrested and charged in connection to sexual exploitation of children on Thursday, March 23rd. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Joseph Prater was arrested and charged by the GBI Child…
Georgia lawmakers eye vouchers, mental health on last day
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers face multiple key decisions on the final scheduled day of their 2023 session. Most importantly, the General Assembly must still pass a budget. But senators and representatives are also trying to reach agreement on plans…
Georgia judge orders prosecutors to reply to Trump challenge
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday ordered the Fulton County district attorney’s office to respond to a motion by former President Donald Trump to throw out a report by a special grand jury that investigated attempts to interfere in the…
Georgia lawmakers: Localities must apply homeless camp bans
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers are telling cities and counties that they must enforce existing bans on public camping or sleeping by homeless people while saying local governments and hospitals can't dump homeless people in other counties without permission. The…
Georgia bill is latest GOP effort targeting prosecutors
ATLANTA (AP) — A new Georgia commission to discipline and remove wayward prosecutors would be the latest move nationwide to ratchet up oversight on what Republicans see as “woke prosecutors” who aren't doing enough to fight crime. The Georgia House…
Trump lawyers attack Georgia grand jury and prosecutor
ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are attacking a special grand jury and prosecutors who investigated him in Georgia, asking a state court to throw out its report and all testimony from the inquiry and bar Fulton County District…
Fort Valley State University hit with 3rd watchdog complaint
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - A national watchdog is urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to issue a more than $350,000 fine against Fort Valley State University. According to a nonprofit that investigates animal abuse and illegal activities at U.S.…
Ex-sheriff convicted of civil rights abuses gets prison time
ATLANTA (AP) — A former Georgia sheriff convicted of violating the civil rights of people in his custody by unnecessarily strapping them into restraint chairs was sentenced Tuesday to serve a year and a half in prison. A jury in October convicted Victor…
Indictment links 3 murders to southeast Georgia prison gang
GLENNVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Grand jurors have indicted three people in the murder of a guard at a troubled southeast Georgia prison, making it the third murder outside prison walls attributed to a gang. WTOC-TVreports that Nathan Weekes, Dennis Kraft and…
Federal officials pause plan to rename Georgia's Lake Lanier
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Federal officials are pausing a plan that could lead to new names for Georgia's Lake Lanier and Buford Dam after locals objected to changing the monikers of landmarks now named for Confederate soldiers. The U.S. Army…
2 road workers hit and injured in Atlanta suburb
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Two road construction workers were hit by a car and seriously injured in suburban Atlanta early Sunday. Police tell local news outlets that the men had gotten out of their vehicle under an overpass in Marietta…
Secretary Raffensperger announces new Georgia Registered Voter Information System
ATLANTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Improvements to Georgia's voter registration process are on the way in the form of new technology. Thursday, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced the launch of the new Georgia Registered Voter Information System-- or, GARViS. The…
Pastner's future at Ga Tech in question after losing season
ATLANTA (AP) — Josh Pastner is facing an uncertain future as Georgia Tech's basketball coach after another losing season and few signs of progress in the Atlantic Coast Conference program. The Yellow Jackets capped a 15-19 campaign Wednesday with an 89-81…
Georgia chief justice says lawyer shortage slows down courts
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's courts are working hard to dig out from under a backlog of cases created and exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, but a shortage of lawyers is hindering some of those efforts, the state's top judge said…
Georgia lawmakers push vouchers, reject betting at deadline
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia lawmakers pushed through a flurry of bills before a key deadline Monday, the last day for legislation to pass either the House or Senate and advance to the other legislative chamber for consideration this year. Lawmakers…
Indiana man arrested for 1989 cold case murder in Monroe County
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Wednesday, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office arrested an Indiana man in connection to a cold case from 1989 that left a…
Georgia star Jalen Carter charged with racing in fatal wreck
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia defensive tackle Jalen Carter, projected as one of the top players in next month's NFL draft, has been charged with reckless driving and racing in conjunction with the crash that killed offensive lineman Devin Willock and…
Sam's Club to open $142M fulfillment center in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — Sam's Club plans to open a new $142 million fulfillment center in Georgia, creating an estimated 600 jobs. Executives for the Walmart subsidiary said the project in Douglas County along the Interstate 20 corridor west of Atlanta…
Keisha Lance Bottoms leaving White House, returns to Atlanta
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden has appointed former Columbia, South Carolina, Mayor Steve Benjamin as a top White House adviser, taking over from Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former Atlanta mayor who had assumed the role in June. Both Georgia and South Carolina…
Reparations for Black Californians could top $800 billion
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It could cost California more than $800 billion to compensate Black residents for generations of over-policing, disproportionate incarceration and housing discrimination, economists have told a state panel considering reparations. The preliminary estimate is more than 2.5…
FDA approves over-the-counter Narcan. Here's what it means
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved selling the leading version of naloxone without a prescription, setting the overdose-reversing drug on course to become the first opioid treatment drug to be sold over the counter. It’s a move that some…
Pamela Smart’s latest bid for sentence reduction dismissed
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s highest court on Wednesday turned away the latest attempt to get a sentence reduction for Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage lover to have her husband killed…
Senate votes to repeal 2002 measure that approved Iraq war
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Wednesday to repeal the resolution that gave a green light for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, an effort to return a basic war power to Congress from the White House 20 years after an authorization…
Basic training without yelling: Army recruits get 2nd chance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Last August, Daysia Holiday decided to try one more time to join the Army. She’d taken the academic test and failed three times. So, when she was offered a slot in a new Army prep course to…
Georgia judge orders prosecutors to reply to Trump challenge
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge on Monday ordered the Fulton County district attorney’s office to respond to a motion by former President Donald Trump to throw out a report by a special grand jury that investigated attempts to interfere in the…
U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022
Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday. Renewables also surpassed nuclear generation in 2022 after first doing so last year. Growth in wind and…
With overdoses up, states look at harsher fentanyl penalties
RENO, Nev. (AP) — State lawmakers nationwide are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by pushing harsher penalties for possessing fentanyl and other powerful lab-made opioids that are connected to about 70,000 deaths a year. Imposing longer prison sentences…
Adam Sandler gets Mark Twain prize surrounded by celeb pals
WASHINGTON (AP) — Adam Sandler placed his hand on the bronze bust of Mark Twain and speculated that it “one day might be the weapon used to bludgeon me in my sleep." A host of comedic and entertainment royalty gathered…
Amazon cuts 9,000 jobs; now at least 27,000 layoffs in 2023
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon plans to eliminate 9,000 more jobs in the next few weeks, CEO Andy Jassy said in a memo to staff on Monday. The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the…
The maddest March ever? Underdogs head to the Sweet 16
We know you're upset. Underdogs have blown up every bracket in the country. An upside of the upsets: perhaps the maddest March ever. Defending national champion Kansas and fellow No. 1 seed Purdue are gone — the Boilermakers with a slice of unwanted history. The…
Trump lawyers attack Georgia grand jury and prosecutor
ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are attacking a special grand jury and prosecutors who investigated him in Georgia, asking a state court to throw out its report and all testimony from the inquiry and bar Fulton County District…
Silicon Valley Bank's demise disrupts the disruptors in tech
Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse rattled the technology industry that had been the bank's backbone, leaving shell-shocked entrepreneurs thankful for the government reprieve that saved their money while they mourned the loss of a place that served as a chummy club of innovation.…
Biden issues order to strengthen gun background checks
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday aiming to increase the number of background checks to buy guns, promote more secure firearms storage and ensure U.S. law enforcement agencies are getting the most out…
Novo Nordisk plans price cuts for several insulins
Novo Nordisk will start slashing some U.S. insulin prices up to 75% next year, following a path set earlier this month by rival Eli Lilly. The Danish drugmaker said Tuesday that pre-filled pens and vials of long- and short-acting insulins…
Lawyer: Over $6M verdict a powerful anti-hazing message
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A jury’s decision that a Louisiana State University fraternity pledge’s family is entitled to $6.1 million for his hazing-related alcohol death in 2017 sends a powerful message, the family’s attorney said Monday. Max Gruver, from the…
States shield addresses of judges, workers after threats
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Following threats and attacks on public officials, state lawmakers across the U.S. have stepped up efforts to shield personal information from being publicly disclosed about judges, police, elected officeholders and various public employees. The measures…
Biden OKs controversial, huge Willow oil drilling in Alaska
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Monday it is approving the controversial major Willow oil project on Alaska's petroleum-rich North Slope, one of President Joe Biden’s most consequential climate choices that is likely to draw condemnation from environmentalists who say it…
