The clean up following the wreck in Ohio of a train owned by Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern should take about three months, according to the U.S. EPA; In the last weeks of the Georgia legislative session, lawmakers continue to work on bills dealing with housing; A Jonesboro man is being sentenced to federal prison for hate crimes, for shooting into convenience stores in Clayton County in 2021 in an attempt to kill Black and Middle Eastern people; Black Children with COVID-19 were more likely to be severely ill, hospitalized or die during the pandemic than white children, according to the Morehouse School of Medicine; and the Gold Dome Scramble crew discusses guns and gambling. 

The clean up following the wreck in Ohio of a train owned by Atlanta-based Norfolk Southern should take about three months, according to the U.S. EPA; In the last weeks of the Georgia legislative session, lawmakers continue to work on bills dealing with housing; A Jonesboro man is being sentenced to federal prison for hate crimes, for shooting into convenience stores in Clayton County in 2021 in an attempt to kill Black and Middle Eastern people; Black Children with COVID-19 were more likely to be severely ill, hospitalized or die during the pandemic than white children, according to the Morehouse School of Medicine; and the Gold Dome Scramble crew discusses guns and gambling.

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