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20 hours ago | wsbradio.com | Mike Stobbe |Geoff Mulvihill

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That's down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023. The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018, according to the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics.

1 day ago | wsbradio.com | Matt O'Brien

Microsoft began laying off about 6,000 workers Tuesday, nearly 3% of its entire workforce and its largest job cuts in more than two years as the company spends heavily on artificial intelligence. Hard hit was the tech giant's home state of Washington, where Microsoft informed state officials it was cutting 1,985 workers tied to its Redmond headquarters, many of them in software engineering and product management roles.

2 days ago | wsbradio.com | Mike Griffith

ATHENS — Georgia football saw a lot of talent walk out the door after the Bulldogs’ 2024 SEC championship season. Did Kirby Smart bring enough in to replace it? It’s a fair question to ask when one considers Georgia had 13 players selected in the NFL draft and another 16 leave via the transfer portal. Among those who transferred out were projected first-round NFL draft talent Carson Beck, at quarterback, and former five-star recruit and rising edge talent Damon Wilson. Read more at DawgNation.

2 days ago | wsbradio.com | Deena Zaru |Alex Stone

LOS ANGELES — Tory Lanez was hospitalized on Monday after a fellow inmate at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi attacked the rapper at around 7:20 a.m. local time, a spokesperson for the prison told ABC News. "Staff immediately responded, activated 911 and began medical aid. Peterson was subsequently transported to an outside medical facility for further treatment," the spokesperson said.

2 days ago | wsbradio.com | Christina Edwards

ATLANTA — Between the heavy rain showers and storms last week as well as the steady showers during Mother’s Day Weekend, the month-to-date rainfall in North Georgia is trending above average this May. Atlanta is less than an inch away from matching the average monthly rainfall for the month of May, and Athens is trending just over an inch away from meeting the average rainfall total for the month.