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GE Appliances completes $180 million investment at Roper plant, adds automation
At its manufacturing plant off Broomtown Road, the Roper Corp. uses about 72 miles of steel rolls on a daily basis, which is more than twice the distance from the facility's home in LaFayette, Georgia, to downtown Chattanooga.
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Conservation group makes $60M land deal to end mining threat outside Okefenokee Swamp
A conservation group said Friday it has reached a $60 million deal to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that environmentalists spent years battling over a proposed mine that opponents feared could irreparably damage an ecological treasure.
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Catoosa GOP party, elected leaders spar over ballot access under partisan branding
What makes a Republican a Republican or a Democrat a Democrat? Is it their principles and the policies they believe will best serve their community? Or is it the approval of party leadership?
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Ringgold police: No evidence of crime with taken flagpoles
A man seen on video loading a local veterans' club commemorative flagpoles into his vehicle did not commit a crime, according to the Ringgold Police Department.
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Former Georgia officer charged over alleged excessive force
A former Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force agent was arrested and charged after allegedly using excessive force on a handcuffed individual earlier this month.
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Consumer advocate Erin Brockovich talks PFAS, building trust
"Forever chemicals," a class of long-lasting compounds prevalent in commercial products, have been on Erin Brockovich's radar for at least a decade.
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Assassination of Minnesota lawmaker is met with bipartisan condemnation in Georgia
Georgia's elected leaders from both parties condemned attacks on state lawmakers in Minnesota on Saturday.
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Hundreds of CDC workers reinstated but majority left in limbo
Fired workers of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and their supporters are pushing for more public health jobs to be restored after a portion of the center's terminated workforce was reinstated last week.
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Democratic candidate for Georgia regulatory panel is officially disqualified from race
Morrow resident Greg Thornton voted for Daniel Blackman in the Georgia Public Service Commission race Wednesday afternoon before he became aware that Blackman had been disqualified from the Democratic Party primary for an Atlanta-based district.
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Kemp embraces Trump’s ‘beautiful’ budget — and its brutal trade-offs for Georgia
When he was inaugurated for a second term, Gov. Brian Kemp pledged to make Georgia the "electric mobility capital of America."
