BILOXI, Miss. ( WLOX /Gray News) — Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat candidate Scott Colom addressed their watch parties as Election Day neared its end in the U.S. Senate race. Vote count At 3 a.m., 95.6% of votes were counted. Colom was leading Hyde-Smith by a narrow margin, wi...
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Tens of thousands of debt collection cases move through metro Atlanta courts each year, but a Channel 2 Action News investigation found many defendants never respond to the lawsuits against them. Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Justin Gray sat through full debt court calendars in...
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Election Day is here and Georgia’s voter polls have closed. It was a big night for Georgia’s Democrats, sweeping the state leaderships roles. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is now the governor-elect and will be joined by a new slate of Democratic state leaders, includi...
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Georgia held its midterm election on Tuesday. Channel 2 Action News is compiling results as they come in LIVE. Get the latest updates on all the north Georgia races below. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms defeated Republican Rick Jackson to become Georgia’s first woman g...
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ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — This is a FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAY for rain and storms across North Georgia. Wet weather will impact your entire day, but relief is on the way this weekend with drier, cooler conditions. Today: FIRST ALERT WEATHER DAY — Rain, Storms and Flooding...
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Voters have handed Democrats control of the Georgia Public Service Commission, a little known but important regulatory board that influences how much Georgians pay for energy. Democrats Peter Hubbard, who is already on the commission, and Shelia Edwards, who was competing for an ...
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In 1894, President Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, had become wildly unpopular with the American people during his second term. He was the first President elected to serve non-consecutive terms (22nd and 24th) and the first Democrat elected as President since the Civil War. He woul...
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Six more years. That’s what Georgia voters gave Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff on Tuesday, handing him a win over Republican Congressman Mike Collins and sending him back to Washington for a second term. The race was called by the Associated Press less than an hour after polls c...
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Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, will be the first Democrat to occupy Georgia’s top office in more than two decades and the first Black woman governor anywhere in the country. Democratic candidate for governor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, s...
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A Georgia man previously pardoned by President Donald Trump for threatening to shoot former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is back in federal custody, accused of making a series of violent threats online, including surrounding Georgia’s midterm elections. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News ...
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FOX 5 Atlanta will have live results and coverage throughout the night. Make sure to bookmark this page and refresh often.
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More than four million Georgians went to the polls and made their voices heard on the state’s next governor and other statewide races. Also on the ballot were three new amendments to Georgia’s Constitution. According to the unofficial results from the Georgia Secretary of State’s...
