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GaDOE announces Special Education Annual Reports now available
WVGA Valdosta Today - Georgia
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July 10, 2025
ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Education announces that the Special Education Annual Reports are now available online. Georgia’s State Performance Plan (SPP)/Annual Performance Report (APR), State-level Special Education Annual Reports, and...
Who Are Georgia Tech RB Jamal Haynes’ Parents? All About Annette Johnson and Reggie Haynes
Essentially Sports
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July 9, 2025
Jamal Haynes has spent the past two seasons as Georgia Tech’s engine room, a red-shirt senior whose legs never quite stopped churning—even when the injuries piled up. In 2024, he started all 13 games at RB, grinding through setbacks to post 944...
Atlanta school superintendent contract extended by one year
WABE - Georgia
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July 8, 2025
Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Bryan Johnson speaks at the opening of the Goodr store in the APS Student and Family Support Hub on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. (Meimei Xu/WABE) The Atlanta Board of Education voted unanimously to extend...
Atlanta theater festival celebrates Southern LGBTQ+ stories and voices
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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(Courtesy of Lavender Fest) ATLANTA - Pride Month may be over, but a special festival is bringing a series of performances that celebrate LGBTQIA+ voices from across the South and beyond to Atlanta. Lavender Fest is hosting performances from July...
The history of ice cream in Atlanta ✦ Joe Alterman ✦ Arts ATL cultural events highlights ✦ Kosmo’s Vinyl of the Week ✦ The Book Bird
WABE - Georgia
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July 9, 2025
July 9, 2025 Listen to the full episode here Or choose a segment below Act One: “City Lights Collective” food contributors Akila McConnel and Chef Asata Reid share the history of ice cream in Atlanta Act Two: Atlanta jazz pianist Joe Alterman...
scott franklin highlights legislation and local culture
Polk Times - Florida
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July 9, 2025
Scott Franklin U.S. House of Representatives from Florida | Official U.S. House HeadshotScott Franklin U.S. House of Representatives from Florida | Official U.S. House Headshot Congressman Scott Franklin, who has represented Florida's 18th...
2025 MLB All-Star Game at Truist Park: Atlanta Braves to host 95th Midsummer Classic
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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The 95th Major League Baseball All-Star Game is coming to Truist Park at the Battery in Cobb County and we’re in the middle of the festivities leading up to the big game. ATLANTA - Baseball's biggest stars are heading to Georgia’s capital for the...
Homeland Security responds to community questioning immigration action at Upstate restaurant
Fox News - South Carolina
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July 8, 2025
WEST UNION, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The ACLU of South Carolina said it is joining community groups, faith leaders and immigrant rights organizations after a June immigration enforcement action at a popular Mexican restaurant in Oconee County. On...
Kendra Krueger awarded certificate at 2025 SkillsUSA Championships in Atlanta
The Jamestown Sun - North Dakota
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July 9, 2025
ATLANTA, Ga. — Kendra Krueger of Jamestown, a student at James Valley Career and Technology Center, was awarded a Skill Point Certificate in Early Childhood Education at the 2025 SkillsUSA Championships held in Arlanta on June 25-26. More than...
Supreme Court blocks part of Florida's immigration law
WSIU - Illinois
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July 9, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday left in place a lower court decision that blocked part of a Florida law making it a crime for undocumented immigrants to cross into the state. The statute imposed various mandatory prison terms for violating the...
Supreme Court blocks part of Florida's immigration law
WQLN - Pennsylvania
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July 9, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday left in place a lower court decision that blocked part of a Florida law making it a crime for undocumented immigrants to cross into the state. The statute imposed various mandatory prison terms for violating the...
Could this historic Georgia site be the newest national park?
USA Today - Virginia
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A bipartisan group of more than a dozen lawmakers are hoping to establish the next new national park in central Georgia. That's the proposal in a bill currently making its way through Congress, led by House Reps. Austin Scott (R-GA) and Sanford D....
Vegan eatery Mission Burger Co. lands in Atlanta
Atlanta Magazine
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July 9, 2025
Classic Mission BurgerCourtesy of BemoreIsaac Mogannam calls himself a “recovering meat eater.” Cofounder of Mission Burger Co., an Austin-based vegan comfort food spot, Mogannam hasn’t eaten meat in eight years. Yet he used to own a cheesesteak...
'Beltline Kevin' brings connection to Atlanta's busiest trail
11 Alive - Georgia
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Kevin Randolph uses music and movement to spark connection among strangers in a city still relearning how to come together. ATLANTA — On a warm afternoon along Atlanta’s Beltline, the sound of rollerblades against concrete blends with a voice...
Atlanta Public Schools extends superintendent's contract through 2028
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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Dr. Bryan Johnson (Atlanta Public Schools) ATLANTA - The Atlanta Board of Education voted unanimously on Monday to extend Superintendent Dr. Bryan Johnson’s contract by one year, securing his leadership through July 6, 2028. What we know: The...
Commemorative issue of South Georgia Wildlife stamps
MercoPress
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Wednesday, July 9th 2025 - 20:08 UTC In the last 250 years, attitudes towards wildlife have changed fundamentally Two-hundred and fifty years ago, January 1775, Captain James Cook landed at Possession Bay and took possession of the island, in the...
UN Human Rights Council Extends LGBTQ Rights Expert’s Mandate
Out South Florida
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The U.N. Human Rights Council on July 7 extended the mandate of the United Nations’ independent LGBTQ rights expert for another three years. The resolution passed with 29 countries (Albania, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia,...
US supreme court blocks Florida from enforcing anti-immigration law
The Guardian
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July 9, 2025
The US supreme court maintained on Wednesday a judicial block on a Republican-crafted Florida law that makes it a crime for undocumented immigrants in the United States to enter the state. The justices denied a request by state officials to lift...
Things to do this weekend in metro Atlanta, North Georgia | July 11-13, 2025
FOX 5 Atlanta - Georgia
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ATLANTA - It's going to be a very big weekend in metro Atlanta and North Georgia with Beyoncé performing at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, WWE at State Farm Arena, and the MLB All-Star Game at Truist Park. But, if you aren't attending any of those big...
BSD Mailbag: Expectations, Culture, and TV Characters (7.9.25)
Black Shoe Diaries - Pennsylvania
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July 9, 2025
Another offseason mailbag. If you have questions you want answered in the next mailbag, drop them here. The expectations for PSU football for 2025 are probably the highest since the Paterno era. Given the nature of alumni national media and fan...