Jeff Martin
The Associated Press
Atlanta, GA, United States
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Students make video to prove their high school needs repairs
The short documentary video opens with a high school student explaining how human waste flows up from the ground and floods an area where he and his friends eat lunch. → Read More
Students make video to show their high school needs repairs
WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — The short documentary video opens with a high school student explaining how human waste flows up from the ground and floods an area where he and his friends eat lunch. In the eight-minute video with background music and captions of key quotes, students at Druid Hills High School use iPhones to document the classrooms, hallways and bathrooms that are crumbling around them. → Read More
Georgia bald eagles stricken by bird flu as it spreads in United States
A flu infecting birds nationwide is being blamed for the deaths of three bald eagles in Georgia. Researchers at the University of Georgia say they confirmed the avian flu in the eagles Thursday. Officials say it marks the first time the virus has been confirmed in the species in Georgia. Nationwide, federal officials have confirmed more than 660 cases of the avian flu in wild birds this year,… → Read More
Rattlesnake roundups take 2 paths, drawing praise and scorn
An annual rattlesnake roundup in south Georgia recently changed the format of this month’s event to celebrate living snakes without skinning and butchering them, earning plaudits from animal rights activists. → Read More
Police: Ex-'American Idol' star took marijuana before fatal crash
Marijuana was involved in a deadly South Carolina crash in which a former “American Idol” contestant has been charged with driving under the influence, according to an arrest warrant. → Read More
Police: Marijuana involved in deadly crash with 'American Idol' star
Marijuana was involved in a deadly South Carolina crash in which a former “American Idol” contestant has been charged with driving under the influence, according to an arrest warrant. Caleb Kennedy, 17, ran over a man with his pickup truck Tuesday after driving up a residential driveway, authorities said. Kennedy told deputies after the crash that he had taken a “deep draw” from a vaping device… → Read More
Black colleges alarmed by bomb threats, but undeterred
From her office in Birmingham, Alabama, DeJuana Thompson looks across the street and sees a daily reminder of terror. Her window overlooks the 16th Street Baptist Church, where a bomb in 1963 killed four young Black girls. → Read More
Black colleges alarmed by bomb threats, but undeterred
From her office in Birmingham, Alabama, DeJuana Thompson looks across the street and sees a daily reminder of terror. Her window overlooks the 16th Street Baptist Church, where a bomb in 1963 killed four young Black girls. "Living in the era of bomb threats is not new to people of color," said Thompson, president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. → Read More
Leaders at Black colleges alert, undeterred by bomb threats
University and community leaders say it is not surprising to see threats aimed at spaces where Black people frequent, but they insisted they won't be intimidated. → Read More
HBCU bomb threat caller described elaborate plot: police
A caller who threatened to blow up a historically Black university in Florida — one of numerous threats made against schools across the nation — described an elaborate plot involving seven bombs hidden in duffel bags and backpacks around the school's perimeter, a Florida police chief said. → Read More
FBI Investigates Bomb Threats at Black Colleges as Potential Hate Crimes
Investigators have identified at least five “persons of interest,” law enforcement officials have confirmed → Read More
Historically Black Universities Lock Down Over Series of Bomb Threats
At least a half-dozen historically Black universities in five states and the District of Columbia were responding to bomb threats Monday, with many of them locking down their campuses. → Read More
Bomb threats made to historically Black schools across US
Many of the half-dozen schools locked down their campuses. The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are investigating. → Read More
Bomb threats made to historically Black schools across US
At least a half-dozen historically Black universities in five states and the District of Columbia were responding to bomb threats Monday, with many of them... → Read More
Family members of 6 victims killed in fiery crash on I-85 file lawsuits
Family members of women in a sober living group home who were killed and injured in a fiery van crash last year are suing a car company and the group home. → Read More
On MLK Day, King III implores Senate to act on voting rights
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eldest son has condemned the inaction of federal lawmakers on voting rights → Read More
On MLK Day, Biden says Americans must commit to King’s work
ATLANTA (AP) — Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King Jr., delivering jobs and justice and protecting “the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday. Martin Luther King Day is a moment when a mirror is held up to America, the […] → Read More
On MLK Day, King implores Senate to act on voting rights
Speaking in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Martin Luther King III said though he was marking the federal holiday named for his father, he wasn't there to celebrate. → Read More
GOP revels in Atlanta World Series after All-Star Game move
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta was stripped of baseball’s All-Star Game over the summer, but it has the World Series now. And Republicans are gloating. The moment the Braves clinched the National League pennant Saturday, Republicans began dunking on Major League Baseball and Democrats over July’s All-Star Game being yanked from Truist Park in protest over Georgia’s restrictive voting law. → Read More
Ida curfew lifted in New Orleans as 250K students still unable to return to school
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — New Orleans lifted a nightly curfew Wednesday as the city moved closer to regaining full power 10 days after Hurricane Ida, but hundreds of thousands of people outside the city were still without lights and water and more than a quarter of a million children were unable to return to schools. The city was left completely in the dark when Hurricane Ida slammed into the… → Read More