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Kemp to use $30 million in COVID relief funds to fight housing insecurity

Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday the award of $30 million in COVID relief funds to organizations working to address housing insecurity in Georgia.  The funds will be distributed among eight organizations.  Atlanta’s BeltLine Partnership and Westside Future Fund will receive $3 million and $2 million, respectively.  Westside Future Fund plans to use the funding to build two three-story walk-up apartment buildings in Atlanta’s English Avenue neighborhood. Of the 26 units planned, half will be reserved

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65-year-old Gwinnett resident Jean Connie Jackson-Williams has been missing since Sunday

LAWRENCEVILLE — The Gwinnett Police Department is asking for your help locating a missing woman with dementia. According to the Gwinnett County Police Department, 65-year-old Jean Connie Jackson-Williams was last seen on Sunday, September 18. She is about 5’05” and weighs about 130 pounds. Jackson-Williams has short grey hair with hazel eyes.  Police say Jackson-Williams left her home on Kentshire Place in Lawrenceville on foot. She was last seen wearing a pink shirt and pants with

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TikTok challenge teaches teens how to steal Kia and Hyundai vehicles

A TikTok challenge is causing problems for Georgia law enforcement officers, Kia and Hundai owers, and is landing teenagers in jail. On Friday and Saturday two vehicles were stolen in the Juliette area of Monroe County. Both vehicles were recovered, and a 14-year-old was charged with the theft on both vehicles as well as Entering Auto. The Monroe County Sheriff’s office says the thefts are due to a TikTok challenge encouraging teens to steal Kia

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The justice department failed to count almost 1,000 inmate deaths last year

The oversight committee, chaired by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a separate analysis of jail and prison deaths.  The GAO found that the DOJ had neglected to properly count 990 deaths in 2021.  Data on those deaths was available in public records, yet the information was missing from the DOJ data, the GAO’s Gretta Goodwin told the committee. Many of the death records that DOJ did collect were

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Athens-Clarke County wants your input on a new youth and community enrichment facility

The Athens-Clarke County Unified Government will host community feedback opportunities on the 10 potential sites identified as possible locations for a new youth and community enrichment facility.   A public meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 27 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Rocksprings Park & Community Center at 291 Henderson Extension, while an online map and survey is now available at www.accgov.com/youthfacility through Oct. 9 for public input on the 10 potential site locations. The