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Elderly Wills Require Mental Capacity: Georgia Law Allows Even Cognitively Declining Seniors to Execute If “Rational Desire” Exists

It is a scenario playing out in probate courts across Atlanta, Savannah, and Macon with increasing frequency in 2026. A family discovers that their elderly...

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Planning an Allman Brothers-themed holiday? You can now stay in Duane Allman's old house in Macon

The Southern Rock Mansion was home to Duane Allman before his move to The Big House

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“Dad's gift to the world was music. I'm so happy to come together with some very special friends to honor the beauty of his life”: Dickey Betts' legacy to be celebrated in star-studded tribute concert

In Memory of Dickey Betts will take place on February 28 at the Allman Brothers Band's stronghold of Macon, Georgia

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Trump leans into anti-migrant rhetoric at final Georgia rally as early voting puts state on a knife-edge

Speaking in Macon city, the former president said he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1790 if he won election

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Challenges Faced By Poor Voters In Georgia

Efforts to increase voter participation among mothers in need in Macon, Georgia amidst economic struggles and racial equity gaps.

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Tour de France 2024: Groenewegen pips Philipsen in photo finish to win stage six – as it happened

Dutch national champion Dylan Groenewegen won on the throw from Jasper Philippsen, while Mark Cavendish wasn’t in the top 10 of today’s sprint finish

The Guardian - UK

Georgia man killed himself as officers sought to ask him about escapees, authorities say

A Georgia man who officials say shot himself after police officers appeared at his door has died

The Independent UK

Protests give Jason Aldean too much credit for his terrible country song

Aldean himself comes from Macon, Georgia, a city with among the highest violent crime rates in the U.S. His lyrics are banal, and unlike most good country music, they don’t tell a story.

Chicago Sun-Times

When antisemitic hate came to Georgia, Georgians responded with unity

A few days after neo-Nazis menaced worshippers at an east Cobb synagogue, Rabbi Dan Dorsch scanned the faces of hundreds who packed a Methodist sanctuary in Smyrna and marveled at the outpouring of support.

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Doctors urge ‘Macon Bacon’ baseball team change its name: ‘You wouldn’t have Team Asbestos’

Group advocate for Georgia summer baseball team to be renamed ‘Macon Facon Bacon’ to promote vegetarian food choices

The Guardian - US

Why peaches might be hard to find this year

Just weeks ago, many of the trees on Lawton Pearson’s farm 30 miles southwest of Macon were loaded with quarter-sized fruit and pink flowers, early signs that a plentiful crop of Georgia’s famed peaches was on the way.

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Woman investigated for bringing gun to vote as Black voters gave out water

MACON, Ga. — A white woman who brought her gun into a Georgia polling place said Tuesday she was “in fear for my life” when the group Black Voters Matter handed out water to waiting voters and played hip-hop music during the 2020 election.

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Panel: Improve Georgia elections oversight but don’t take over Fulton County

MACON, Ga. — If there’s ever another elections takeover attempt in Georgia, it should be run better than the prolonged and unfunded investigation that targeted Fulton County, state officials said Tuesday.

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Herschel Walker embraces his badge controversy

MACON, Ga. — Standing in front of an oversized American flag at a crime-themed campaign rally here Thursday, Herschel Walker said he wanted to acknowledge some “superheroes.” As the crowd applauded, seven sheriffs’ officials trooped onto the stage.

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Warnock on Walker: ‘A disturbing pattern’

MACON, Ga. — As an abortion scandal rocks the campaign of Republican Herschel Walker, U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock on Friday emphasized his support of abortion rights before a crowd in Middle Georgia.

The Independent UK

The Muscogee get their say in national park plan for Georgia

Hundreds of Native Americans returned to their historic capital in Macon, Georgia, this weekend for the 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration

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Walker accepts debate invite, but not one that Warnock chose

Georgia Republican Herschel Walker has accepted an invitation in his U.S. Senate race to debate Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock

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