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2 days ago | walb.com | Madeline Montgomery

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - An Atlanta mother wants to see changes in police pursuit policy after her son was allegedly hit and killed by a woman fleeing a state trooper in Little Five Points. “It just feels empty,” said Kate Schoenke. It’s only been one week since the worst notification Kate Schoenke has ever received on her phone. “I got an alert that there had been an impact on the phone... and that he wasn’t moving.

5 days ago | walb.com | Abby Kousouris

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A draft budget proposal circulating among federal officials would dramatically deepen cuts at the nation’s top health agency, eliminating some public health programs entirely and serving as a roadmap for more mass firings. The document suggests a cut in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ discretionary spending by as much as one-third, or tens of billions of dollars, according to public health experts familiar with its contents.

5 days ago | walb.com | Yolanda Amadeo

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Easter weekend continues an extended dry stretch albeit unseasonably warm. Expect plenty of sunshine with a few passing clouds and toasty highs mid-upper 80s near 90° while lows drop into the low 60s. For mid-late April temperatures will run about 5-10° above average. The average high is 80° and average low 55°. Next week as high pressure remains in control, only a few changes with more clouds and a slight chance of rain as summer-like warmth holds.

5 days ago | walb.com | Ashanti Isaac

GRADY COUNTY, Ga. (WALB) — Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, is back home after being wrongfully detained by immigration authorities following a traffic stop in Florida. Lopez-Gomez, who was born in Cairo, Ga., was arrested Wednesday by State Highway Patrol officers while en route to a construction job in Tallahassee. Due to language barriers authorities initially failed to confirm his citizenship status.

6 days ago | walb.com | Brittanye Blake

WALB is working to produce a video for this story. In the meantime, we encourage you to watch our livestream. VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - A Lowndes County man has been sentenced for the 2022 murder of Denisha Williams. In September 2022, Denisha Williams was shot to death at Peaches Nightclub by her longtime boyfriend and the father of one of her children, Jacquez Jelks. On Thursday, April 17, Jelks was sentenced to life in prison for malice murder. Williams was the mother of four.