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Military jamming disrupted a medical plane's GPS system before it crashed last month in New Mexico
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (613+ words) By JOSH FUNK, AP Transportation Writer The GPS system on a'small medical plane that crashed'into a mountainside last month in New Mexico malfunctioned because the military was jamming that signal throughout the area at the time although pilots had been…...
Georgia's vote-counting method will soon be banned. Lawmakers will try to find a fix this week
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (962+ words) The election system used throughout the political battleground state relies on a QR code printed on ballots to tally the votes. Legislators passed a law two years ago barring the use of that barcode for the official vote count beyond…...
Georgia officials knew chemicals from carpet mills were polluting local water. The people did not
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1717+ words) Waiting for her were pitchers of sweet tea, which her family brewed using tap water. "Your family's going through a gallon every day or two, and it's cheap," Bost said. "But it comes from the faucet." As a parent, Bost…...
Democrats see Georgia's failure to curb data centers as an electoral gift
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (819+ words) Now with election season upon them, lawmakers are returning home to find local communities up in arms against the'warehouses full of computers'that power artificial intelligence. "I think they failed us, that's what I think" said Judy Mullis, an activist fighting…...
Georgia's Fulton County heads to court to seek return of 2020 ballots seized by FBI
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (569+ words) U. S. District Judge J. P. Boulee wrote in a scheduling order that the hearing was needed after the two sides failed to reach an agreement in court-ordered mediation. The Jan. 28 seizure from a warehouse near Atlanta targeted the elections hub in Georgia's most…...
A Georgia man shipped methamphetamine pills into CT through mail. He's headed to prison
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (292+ words) A Georgia man received a 10-year federal prison sentence Tuesday for shipping methamphetamine pills to Connecticut in packages through the mail. Tyrone Brown, 33, of Lithonia, Georgia, was sentenced by U. S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 120 months in prison and…...