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New cultural arts center, theater opens in Georgia city

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This Wednesday, March 28, 2019 photo shows signs on the doors of the Bolton Street Baptist Church before a meeting to discuss an upcoming mayoral race in Savannah, Ga. Organizers of the meeting to discuss an upcoming mayoral race in Georgia barred reporters from attending, unless they were African-American. News outlets report the Wednesday meeting at the church in Savannah was held to try to unite the city’s black community behind a single candidate for mayor. (Eric Curl/Savannah Morning News via AP)

Candidate apologizes for attending ‘Black Press Only’ event

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In this Wednesday, March 27, 2019 photo, signs posted on the doors of the Bolten Street Baptist Church are seen during a meeting coordinated to garner support for one black candidate in Savannah's mayoral race, in Savannah, Ga. Organizers of a meeting to discuss an upcoming mayoral race in Georgia barred reporters from attending, unless they were African-American. (Eric Curl/Savannah Morning News via AP)

‘Black Press Only!’: White reporters not allowed at Savannah, Georgia mayoral race event

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Savannah police to add eyes in sky for variety of calls

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FILE - This April 5, 2018 file photo shows Jameillah Smiley holding a framed photograph of her son, Ricky Boyd, at her home in Savannah, Ga. Police were justified in fatally shooting Ricky Boyd, a 20-year-old man, a grand jury said Wednesday, May 23, 2018 after concluding that he pointed a BB pistol at officers who had come to arrest him. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum, File)

The Latest: Lawyer slams handling of Georgia police shooting

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Juan Polanco, left, Denis Oliveras, center, and Carlos Narvaez, all childhood friends of deceased military pilot Maj. Jose Rafael Roman, gather at Roman's family home in Manati, Puerto Rico, Thursday, May 3, 2018. Military investigators began the arduous task Thursday of answering why a C-130 Hercules cargo plane being flown into retirement by an experienced crew of nine airmen plunged onto a Georgia highway. Families and friends grieved and took note of the fact that Puerto Rico's planes are the oldest in the National Guard inventory. The men said that Roman always dreamt of being a pilot and that they would sometimes joke about how old the planes were that he flew. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

Puerto Rico demands answers, mourns loss of 9 airmen

By DANICA COTO and RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press

Flames and smoke rise from an Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane after it crashed near Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, May 2, 2018. (James Lavine via AP)

Correction: Military Plane Crash-The Latest story

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This undated family photo made available by Joyce Vance, shows U.S. Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance, who was killed by a mail bomb sent to his home in Mountain Brook, Ala., in 1989. Walter Leroy Moore Jr. was convicted of capital murder in the blast and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on April 19, 2018. Moody has asked a court to block his scheduled execution this week, arguing that Alabama has no right to carry out the death penalty while he is also serving a federal sentence. (Joyce Vance via AP)

The Latest: 83-year-old Alabama mail-bomb killer is executed

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Vice President Mike Pence, center, his wife Karen Pence, left, and his mother Nancy Pence Fritch, right, march in the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday, March 17, 2018, in Savannah, Ga. Irish immigrants to Savannah and their descendants have been celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a parade since 1824. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Pence takes short St. Patrick’s Day stroll in Savannah

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Vice President Mike Pence, center, and his wife wife Karen Pence, right, welcome Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of Ireland, left, to the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, Friday, March 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Police chief pledges respect for speech rights

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This cover image released by St. Martin's Press shows &quot;The Echo Killing,&quot; by Christi Daugherty. (St. Martin's Press via AP)

Review: Author nails newsroom culture in ‘The Echo Killing’

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Vincent Sottile, center, and his brother Mike Sottile play hockey on the public tennis courts at Forsyth Park, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in Savannah, Ga. A brutal winter storm scattered a wintry mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain from normally balmy Florida up the Southeast seaboard Wednesday. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

South to finally warm, but Georgia could see freezing rain

By JEFF MARTIN - Associated Press

Water squirts from a frozen fountain near downtown in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018. Temperatures plummeted overnight to 2 degrees in the north Georgia mountains, 14 in Atlanta and 26 as far south as New Orleans as the Gulf Coast felt more like Green Bay. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Winter storm forecast to dump snow from Florida to Carolinas

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A wall decoration in the Ridgefield, Wash., home of Kris, Savannah and Jen Riley emphasizes their love of family, as seen Thursday afternoon, Nov. 30, 2017. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian via AP)

Same-sex parents navigate ups and downs of making a family

By PATTY HASTINGS - Associated Press

‘I don’t like being without him’: Service dog to be honored

By DASH COLEMAN - Associated Press

Correction: Two-Hour Pursuit story

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FILE- This file photo from 1933 shows Georgia Gov. Eugene Talmadge in Atlanta. A populist Democrat who stoked fierce loyalty among rural whites in the 1930s and '40s, Gov. Talmadge unflinchingly defended segregation in Georgia. Now city officials in Savannah plan to vote on a resolution urging state lawmakers to remove Talmadge's name from the towering suspension bridge that spans the Savannah River. (AP Photo)

Savannah wants segregationist governor’s name off bridge

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Adoptive mother of girl killed in Missouri asks ‘what if?’

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2014 file photo, a poster offering a reward for information in the disappearance of Holly Bobo, is displayed in a store window in Parsons, Tenn. The case against Zachary Adams, a man charged with kidnapping, raping and killing Bobo is “absolutely full of holes” and based on “non-evidence,” a defense attorney said Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. Jennifer Thompson delivered closing arguments Thursday in the trial of Adams in Savannah. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

The Latest: Man convicted of murdering nursing student

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Zach Adams walks back into the courtroom on day nine of the Holly Bobo murder trail, Wednesday, Sept. 20, in Savannah, Tenn. Zach Adams is charged with felony first-degree murder, especially aggravated kidnapping, aggravated rape of Holly Bobo. (Kenneth Cummings/ The Jackson Sun via AP, Pool)

The Latest: Jury to resume work Friday in student’s slaying

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