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 annual Peach Festival in Fort Valley and Byron. The pageant took place Saturday at the Opera Housein downtown Hawkinsville. 41NBC’s…
DUBLIN, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Middle Georgia State University is partnering with Heart of Georgia College & Career Academy to offer core courses and a potential path into the nursing program to dual-enrolled students. High school students at Heart of Georgia College & Career Academy can take up to 26 credit hours of core courses and seamlessly gain admission into MGA’s…
Apple launched an option in its digital wallet. It allows customers to pay for online purchases in installments, making it the latest company to embrace the buy now, pay later trend. Apple Pay Later lets customers split payments for purchases into four installments over six weeks, with the first installment due at the time of purchase. Apple users can also…
Despite the popularity of games on phones, computers, and consoles, traditional board games still have a lot to offer. In today’s Tech Byte, a look at how old school games and new technology are being combined. The classic Outsmarted! and Stop Thief! board games are great examples of old games with a high tech twist. Both board games can pair…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A PACT Act Town Hall Meeting is being held in Macon today to help Veterans. The PACT Act is new legislation that provides a large list of presumed disabilities for veterans that served in specific locations during their time in uniform. Dublin VAMC Director Manuel M. Davila is hosting a Town Hall for this new legislation…
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 first time since Friday morning. And while some cirrus clouds are hanging around the region, they are doing very little to limit the suns impact early. We may see…
A new Senate Report finds that shortages of critical prescription drugs spiked by nearly 30% between 2021 and 2022, marking a five-year high. The report cites an over-reliance on China for ingredients as the biggest concern. This dependence poses a national security risk, leaving millions of Americans vulnerable. Shortages of prescription drugs have been caused by economic drivers, reliance on…
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 get their physicals done within a reasonable time frame at a facility near the school they attend. The physical involves eye, ear, nose, and throat tests, as well as heart, blood pressure, and orthopedic…
FORT VALLEY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A Fort Valley cosmetologist will be sharing her skills with thousands this weekend at the Bronner Bros. International Beauty Show this weekend in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jennifer “JB” Nicole has been a cosmetologist and educator for 10 years. During that time, she has attended the Bronner Brother’s Show and assisted other stylists with their platforms,…
A new research paper claims that a staggering amount of employees could see their careers impacted by the rise of ChatGPT. Researchers from OpenAI and the University of Pennsylvania argued in a new research paper that 80 percent of the U.S. workforce could have at least 10 percent of their work tasks affected by the introduction of ChatGPT. The Federal Trade…
A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that the percentage of businesses with little to no telework skyrocketed last year. Of the private-sector establishments surveyed last year from August 1 to September 30, 72% had little to no telework. That’s a big leap from 2021, when just 60% of establishments surveyed from July to September 2021 reported…
GRAY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Jones County Sheriff’s Office had to evacuate a woman from her home on Monday morning due to severe flooding caused by overflowing embankments. Several houses on Rock Creek Road were affected by rising water levels, forcing deputies to respond quickly. “We were able to respond pretty quickly; we were right around the corner,” Investigator Barron…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Here are Middle Georgia’s food service inspection scores from the Georgia Department of Public Health between Monday, March 20 and Friday, March 24, 2023. All scores of 69 and below are shown in red, which is considered unsatisfactory on the state’s scale. All scores between 70 and 99 are shown in black. All scores of 100…
The Senate Banking Committee will hold the first of several hearings on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank today. A top Federal Reserve official will tell the committee the bank failed due to mismanagement and a sudden panic among depositors. Disney will begin informing employees this week that they’re being laid off. This will be the first of three rounds…
Atrium Health NavicentMACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Atrium Health Navicent locations in Middle Georgia will drop it universal mask mandates beginning Tuesday. Hospital officials say after careful consideration and extensive review of scientific data, masks will no longer be required. However, they say masks may still be required in certain areas where higher levels of infection prevention are needed. These may…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office needs your help finding a suspect and vehicle. On March 26, the Sheriff’s Office says the person and vehicle pictured above was involved in an armed robbery at the County Line Store on Thomaston Road. If you have any information about the robbery, call Sergeant Kemeyan Colvard with the Monroe County…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Macon communities are gathering this week for the annual “On the Table” event, sponsored by the Community Foundation of Central Georgia. More than 2,000 people from across the city are expected to participate in conversations on topics such as mental health, poverty alleviation, outdoor recreation and public transit. Kathryn Dennis, President of the Community Foundation of…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Leaders from Macon and Kurobe, Japan met at Macon City Hall Monday to re-commit their relationship. Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller met with the Mayor of Kurobe, Japan, Yoshikazu Takekuma, to sign a “twinning document as a continued commitment between the two cities. Macon and Kurobe first became sister cities in 1977 after the YKK plant…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A 19-year-old man is in stable condition at the hospital after being shot Monday afternoon. It happened around 2:30 in the 1100 block of Boulevard in Macon, according to a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office news release. Deputies did not provide the 19-year-old’s name. The shooting is under investigation. Call the sheriff’s office at (478) 751-7500 or…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – More than 100 residents of a Macon apartment complex were evacuated Monday after their apartments were flooded. Timber Pointe Apartments on Old Clinton Road were flooded as storms moved through overnight and into the morning. Some residents had to be escorted by boat. “There’s no one that’s had any medical issues right now,” Lt. Sean Defoe…
JACKSON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – High Falls State Park was evacuated Monday after storms moved through the area and resulted in flooding. The park escorted around 25 campers who had become stuck due to flood waters, and officials expect the park to be shut down until next week. “It was just so much water in such a short span yesterday and…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Milledgeville residents are cleaning up after a weekend of storms left trees down, homes and businesses damaged, and some families still without power. Parts of MLK Jr. Drive and Columbia Street were covered in debris due to the storm winds. “About 5 o’clock, everything went boom!” resident Emmett Robbins Jr. said. “And I was like, ‘What’s…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office is looking to identify a suspect in connection to a burglary that happened at the Citgo on Emery Highway. Sunday morning at 6:19 a.m., deputies responded to a burglar alarm at the Citgo and found a shattered window, and the suspect no longer at the scene. Surveillance footage showed deputies the…
UPDATE: The terminal station in Macon has re-opened after a brief closure as a precautionary measure due to water accumulation at the entrances earlier this morning. MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Severe weather has caused Macon’s historic Terminal Station to close until further notice. Jami Gaudet with the Macon-Bibb County Transit Authority says that the combination of rain and wind was…