HOUSTON (AP) — A flight returned to a Houston airport just after takeoff early Wednesday because of an unruly passenger, authorities said. There were reports that a male…
Read more Unruly Passenger Prompts Plane’s Return to Houston Airport Just After TakeoffDALLAS (AP) — More than 8,000 flights across the U.S. set to take off over the weekend have been canceled as a major storm expected to wreak havoc…
Read more Over 8,000 Flights Canceled as Major Winter Storm Bears Down Across Much of the USATLANTA (AP) — Millions of Americans from New Mexico to the Carolinas are bracing for a potentially catastrophic ice storm that could crush trees and power lines and…
Read more Millions of Americans Brace for Potentially Catastrophic Ice Storm. What to Know, by the NumbersATLANTA (AP) — A financial adviser in Georgia pleaded guilty Wednesday to wire fraud in a Ponzi scheme that bilked more than 2,000 people out of $380 million,…
Read more Federal Prosecutors in Georgia Announce Guilty Plea in Ponzi Scheme That Bilked Investors of $380MATLANTA (AP) — With many Americans still recovering from multiple blasts of snow and unrelenting freezing temperatures in the nation’s northern tier, a new storm is set to…
Read more Forecasters Warn of a ‘Major Winter Storm’ With Ice Threat From Texas to the CarolinasATLANTA (AP) — Against a backdrop of political division and upheaval, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter said the holiday honoring her father’s legacy comes as “somewhat…
Read more Why Bernice King Sees MLK Day as a ‘Saving Grace’ in Today’s Political ClimateMADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats across the country are proposing state law changes to rein in federal immigration officers and protect the public following the shooting death of…
Read more Democrats Propose State Laws to Limit ICE After Minneapolis Shooting of Renee GoodATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s chaotic political universe has at least one consistent law that rises above any other: The president has no permanent friends and no…
Read more Trump’s Breakup With Greene Is Not the Same as Others. but Like Always, There May Be Second ChancesNorfolk Southern railroad worked with the state of Ohio and Youngstown State University to revive plans for a $20 million first responder training center near the site of…
Read more Plan for $20 Million Firefighter Training Center Near the Site of Ohio Derailment RevivedATLANTA (AP) — It all happened so fast. Less than a week after President Donald Trump denounced Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican announced that she would…
Read more Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Resigning. Here’s What to Know About Her Five Years in CongressSANDERSVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Three former Georgia sheriff’s deputies have been found not guilty of murder in the death of a Black man who raised a white homeowner’s…
Read more Ex-Georgia Deputies Cleared of Murder in Death of Black Man Shocked at Least 15 TimesATLANTA (AP) — When families are evicted, it can lead to major disruptions to their children’s schooling. Federal law includes provisions to help homeless and evicted kids stay…
Read more Takeaways From AP’s Story on the Links Between Eviction and SchoolATLANTA (AP) — As an education reporter, I’ve heard teachers worry that the most pernicious challenges their students face, like poverty or housing insecurity, are beyond the realm…
Read more Getting the Story: How an AP Reporter Chronicled a Sensitive Story About School and EvictionLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — People across the country formed long lines for free meals and groceries at food pantries and drive-through giveaways Saturday, after monthly benefits through the…
Read more SNAP Benefits Cut off During Shutdown, Driving Long Lines at Food PantriesPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect…
Read more One of the World’s Rarest Whales That Makes the Atlantic Its Home Grows in PopulationATLANTA (AP) — The only escaped Louisiana inmate who remained on the run following an audacious May jailbreak in which 10 men crawled through a hole behind a…
Read more Last of the 10 New Orleans Jail Escapees From May Is Captured in Georgia, Authorities SayStaffing shortages led to more flight delays at airports across the U.S. on Tuesday as the federal government shutdown stretched into a seventh day, while union leaders for…
Read more Staffing Shortages Cause More US Flight Delays as Government Shutdown Reaches 7th DayATLANTA (AP) — Georgia‘s highest court on Tuesday sided with Black landowners in a fight over zoning changes that weakened long-standing protections for one of the South’s last…
Read more Georgia’s Highest Court Sides With Slave Descendants Fighting to Protect Threatened Island CommunityATLANTA (AP) — Fallout from the 2020 presidential election feels like it may never end in Georgia. Maybe more any other state, the decisions made after Democrat Joe…
Read more Georgia’s 2026 Candidates Still Can’t Escape Fallout From Trump’s False 2020 Election Claims(CNN) — For the young daughters of Michael and Kimberly Wood, it was their first time at the annual festival celebrating the culture of the Gullah Geechee community on…
Read more Dock tragedy is latest chapter in Gullah Geechee community’s long struggle
