Moving payloads is at the heart of Steven Bernstein’s business. His company, Newark, New Jersey-based Interport, supplies the ubiquitous shipping containers that rise like multicolored walls of building blocks on freighters serving the busiest East Coast ports, including those in Savannah and Brunswick. But while Bernstein focuses professionally on hauling goods by land and by […]
Warnings of an “unexpected IT outage” Tuesday on the election website of Georgia’s most populous county prompted alarm on social media about potential problems with the state’s presidential primary, concerns election officials quickly dispelled. A red banner atop county webpages warning of a “System Outage” was actually related to a January cyberattack that temporarily crippled […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Emerging from their near-clean sweeps of Super Tuesday contests, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump head to Georgia, where they’ll campaign for votes in Tuesday’s presidential primary in a state that will play a pivotal role in deciding their fates in November. For Trump, the day will likely have additional […]
Georgia’s largest county is still repairing damage inflicted on its government a month ago by hackers who shut down office phone lines, left clerks unable to issue vehicle registrations or marriage licenses and threatened to publicly release sensitive data they claimed to have stolen unless officials paid ransom. The ransomware syndicate LockBit took credit for […]
After my family’s first trip to Georgia’s Golden Isles, I knew I’d be back again. In fact, my husband and I talked endlessly during our stay at the Jekyll Island Club Resort about how it would be ideal for a big, extended family vacation. That multigenerational family vacation hasn’t come together yet, but since my […]
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Michael Thurmond thought he was reading familiar history at the burial place of Georgia’s colonial founder. Then a single sentence on a marble plaque extolling the accomplishments of James Edward Oglethorpe left him stunned speechless. Within a lengthy tribute to the Englishman who died in 1785, the inscription read: “He was […]
ATLANTA — A federal judge will soon rule on whether Georgia’s hotly contested Dominion voting machines are vulnerable to hacking and violate voters’ constitutional rights, a decision that threatens to scramble the battleground state’s election procedures heading into the 2024 presidential campaign. A sprawling six-year-long legal fight over the integrity of Georgia’s elections wrapped up […]
FILE – People cross the street near the Fulton County Courthouse, Aug. 14, 2023, in Atlanta. Court and other systems in Fulton County, Georgia’s most populous county, were hacked over the weekend, resulting in interruptions to routine operations, officials said Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, adding that the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump is […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Accusations that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had an inappropriate relationship with a special prosecutor she hired to seek convictions of Donald Trump and others for interfering in Georgia’s 2020 election have led to renewed calls to remove Willis from the case. Willis has defended her hiring of Nathan Wade, who […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia, a capital for electric vehicle production, needs to increase its supply of electricity produced without burning fossil fuels in order to meet industries’ demand for clean energy, Gov. Brian Kemp told world business leaders Thursday. Speaking as part of a panel focused on electric vehicles at the World Economic Forum in […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge in Georgia has declined to block part of a sweeping election law that shortened the state’s runoff election period to four weeks from nine weeks while legal challenges play out. U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee ruled Friday that plaintiffs hadn’t proved that the shorter period disproportionately harmed Black voters, […]
The 2024 session of the General Assembly starting Monday is expected to feature renewed debate over issues lawmakers have wrestled with for years, including private school vouchers, legalized gambling, and tort reform. But the biggest difference this year is that Georgia is sitting atop a $16 billion budget surplus and another $11 billion undesignated funds. […]