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Bomb threats were reported across five key battleground states, both to polling places and government offices where votes are counted. The FBI, which engaged with local and state officials, confirmed that some of the threats originated from Russian email domains. “There were no major issues across the state” in the election process, said Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar. Voters who need to cure ballots with signature issues have until November 12 to do so, according to state election rules. Election workers process ballots for the 2024 General Election, in Milwaukee on November 5, 2024.

Persons: Donald Trump, Georgia –, –, Jocelyn Benson, Benson, ”, Gabriel Sterling, Brad Raffensperger, Lorena Portillo, State Francisco Aguilar, Aguilar, Omar Sabir, Kamala Harris, ” Sabir, Al Schmidt, Scott Hunt, Sara Innamorato, “, ” Innamorato, Paulina Gutierrez, “ We’re, Gutierrez, Jeff Fleming, Morry Gash, AP Sen, Ron Johnson, Brian Schimming, Johnson, Alysa Horton, they’ll, ” Horton, Horton, Adrian Fontes, Sean Lyngaas, Dalia Faheid, Brian Todd, Zachary Cohen, Casey Tolan, Holmes Lybrand, Scott Glover, Pamela Brown, Jim Acosta, Laura Dolan Organizations: CNN, Electoral, White, FBI, Democratic, Michigan Michigan, Georgia CNN, Trump, Georgia, State, Pennsylvania CNN, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Allegheny, Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, AP, Wisconsin GOP, Arizona State, ASU, university’s State Press Locations: Russia, Fulton County, Georgia, Michigan, Wolverine, Detroit, “, Lansing, Atlanta, Chatham County, Savannah, ” Fulton, . Nevada, Nevada, Clark, Clark County, Clark County , Nevada, Washoe County, Nye County, Pennsylvania, Cambria County, Allegheny County, ”, Centre, Bellefonte , Pennsylvania, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Arizona, Tempe

☆ Debby’s aftermath leaves thousands in the dark; threatens more flooding in the Carolinas
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

With the ground already saturated from Debby, the National Weather Service said localized downpours could result in additional flash flooding throughout the coastal Carolinas. “Right now, it’s thundering, sprinkling and pretty dark so I’d say it’s going to start raining hard here pretty soon,” she said. Even in drier areas, more than 35,000 homes and businesses in Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont still had no electricity as of Sunday afternoon, according to the tracking website PowerOutage.us. Debby’s last day and night over the U.S. inundated parts of New York, Pennsylvania and New England with rain and flash flooding on Friday, prompting evacuations and rescues. Officials announced plans to distribute water bottles and clean-up kits to residents impacted by flash flooding on Sunday and Monday.

Persons: Debby, Chastity Bettis, “, ”, Debby’s, Craig Ruttle, Stacey Urban, ” Urban, hasn’t, “ It’s, …, Marc Rice, Clint Owlett, “ That’s Organizations: PHILADELPHIA, U.S, Florida, National Weather Service, Carolinas, Authorities, Tropical, Post High School, Volunteers, National Hurricane Center, Atlantic, Officials Locations: North Carolina, New York , Ohio, Pennsylvania, East, Canada, Lumberton, N.C, New Bern , North Carolina, South Carolina, Charleston, Charleston County, Chatham County, Ohio , New York , Pennsylvania, Vermont, Ohio, U.S, New York , Pennsylvania, New England, Canistea , New York, Canisteo , New York, New York’s Steuben County, Tioga County

Chatham County employees dump a truck load of sand for residents to use in sandbag as they prepare for Hurricane Debby, in Savannah, Georgia on August 5. Stephen B. Morton/APHurricane survivors returning to damaged houses face a torrent of challenges – if they’re lucky enough to have a home at all. Residents should “return home only when local officials say it is safe to do so,” the Federal Emergency Management Agency says. Once you get there, “Walk carefully around the outside of your home to check for loose power lines, gas leaks, and structural damage,” the National Weather Service says. Read more about how to recover from a hurricane or tropical storm.

Persons: Debby, Stephen B, Morton, –, Read Organizations: Chatham, AP Hurricane, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Weather Service, CDC Locations: sandbag, Savannah , Georgia

☆ Opinion | Jan. 6 Cannot Go Down the Memory Hole
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Following the passage of the first Enforcement Acts, written to protect the civil rights of the formerly enslaved, Congress created a bipartisan committee in 1871 to investigate reports of vigilante violence against freed people and their white allies in the states of the former Confederacy. The next year, the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States released its report, a 13-volume collection of testimony from 600 witnesses, totaling more than 8,000 pages. The men and women who spoke to the committee attested to pervasive violence and intimidation. There were innumerable reports of whippings and beatings and killings. “Tom Roundtree, alias Black, a negro, murdered by a Ku-Klux mob of some fifty or sixty persons, who came to his house at night on the 3rd of December last, took him out, shot him, and cut his throat,” reads a typical entry in the volume devoted to Klan activity in South Carolina.

Persons: Tom Roundtree, Black, “ James Williams, ”, Kidada E, Williams, Frances Gilmore, Elaine Frantz Parsons, “ Organizations: Klan Locations: States, South Carolina, “, Chatham County, N.C

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A high school football player died after suffering a “medical emergency” on the sidelines of a game in Georgia, the school district said. The junior varsity team from Windsor Forest High School was playing Monday night when on-site emergency responders rushed to help one of its players, the Savannah-Chatham County school district said in a news release. It said the player was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital, but gave no further details about what happened. The name of the player was not released. School officials said the student had played earlier in the game, but had rotated out before needing medical attention.

Organizations: Windsor Forest High School, School, Associated Press Locations: SAVANNAH, Ga, Georgia, Savannah, Chatham County

☆ US jail practices are racist and an 'affront to human dignity,' UN experts say
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( Emma Farge | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/2] A jail cell at the Chatham County Detention Center is pictured in Savannah, Georgia, U.S., February 21, 2019. In a report published on Thursday, three U.N.-appointed experts said they had found practices in U.S. prisons that amounted to "an affront to human dignity" in visits in April and May. The experts "heard, first hand, unbearable direct testimonies of pregnant women shackled during labour, who due to the chaining, lost their babies", it said. Asked to give details, a U.N. rights spokesperson referred to "several" cases and confirmed they all involved Black women. One Black man told the experts he had been kept in isolation for 11 years without interruption, the report said.

Persons: Shannon Stapleton, George Floyd, Black, Juan Mendez, Emma Farge, Kevin Liffey, Timothy Gardner Organizations: Detention, Investigation, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Human Rights, Thomson Locations: Chatham, Savannah , Georgia, U.S, GENEVA, Geneva, Louisiana, Angola, Juan Mendez ., United States

☆ Chipmaker Wolfspeed secures $1.25 bln in debt funding led by Apollo Global
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 26 (Reuters) - Wolfspeed (WOLF.N) said on Monday that a group led by Apollo Global Management (APO.N) would make a debt investment of $1.25 billion in the chipmaker, with room for an additional $750 million, to support its U.S. expansion. Wolfspeed CEO Gregg Lowe said the financing would help "scale up near-term operations at our Mohawk Valley Fab and construction of our Siler City materials facility to help us capture the growing silicon carbide market opportunity." The company in September last year had announced a multi-billion-dollar investment in a factory in Chatham County, North Carolina to make raw materials for chips that power electric vehicles, among other things. The company has the option to pay the debt early, Wolfspeed said. (This story has been refiled to add dropped word in the headline)Reporting by Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru Editing by Vinay DwivediOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Gregg Lowe, Wolfspeed, Jaspreet Singh, Vinay Dwivedi Organizations: Apollo Global Management, Thomson Locations: Siler City, Chatham County , North Carolina, Bengaluru

☆ Apollo Global leads debt investment in chipmaker Wolfspeed, media report
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

June 25 (Reuters) - A group of investors led by Apollo Global Management (APO.N) is making a debt investment between $1 billion to $2 billion in chipmaker Wolfspeed (WOLF.N) to support its expansion in the U.S., media outlets reported on Sunday. The financing would make $1.25 billion of cash available immediately to Wolfspeed, while another $750 million could be drawn later, Bloomberg News reported. The report added it was structured as seven-year secured notes carrying a coupon of 9.875% and can be paid back after three years. Apollo Global Management and Wolfspeed did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by Lisa ShumakerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Wolfspeed, Chandni Shah, Lisa Shumaker Organizations: Apollo Global Management, Bloomberg News, Thomson Locations: U.S, Wolfspeed, Chatham County , North Carolina, Bengaluru

☆ VinFast delays US electric vehicle plant operation to 2025
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"We need more time to complete administrative procedures," VinFast said in a statement on the delay, which did not specify when in 2025 the plant was expected to start operations. Last year VinFast filed for an initial public offering in the United States to list on the Nasdaq to fund its the plant construction. VinFast started its first sales outside Vietnam last week, delivering its first 45 cars in California on the first day. Its revenue in 2022 was 14.9 trillion dong ($631 million), down about 6.9% against 2021. Net losses rose 55% to 49.8 trillion dong from 32.2 trillion dong, its latest prospectus showed.

☆ VinFast delays U.S. electric vehicle plant operation to 2025
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Leaders open the ceremony to load up VinFast LLC's VF8 electric vehicles into a ship to export at a port in Haiphong, Vietnam, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. Vietnam's automaker VinFast on Friday said it will push back its plan to start operations of its electric vehicles factory in the United States until 2025, citing a procedural delay. "We need more time to complete administrative procedures," VinFast said in a statement on the delay, which did not specify when in 2025 the plant was expected to start operations. VinFast last month was awarded an Air Permit from local authorities to start construction. It still needs a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers designed to minimise damage to water quality and wetlands.

☆ Quinton Simon’s mother indicted on murder charges weeks after his body was found in a Georgia landfill
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

The mother of Quinton Simon, the 20-month-old Georgia toddler whose remains were found in a Savannah landfill last month, was indicted on murder charges on Wednesday, weeks after being arrested and charged in connection with his death. The false statements allegedly included repeated claims about what she had been doing during the hours around Quinton's alleged murder, the indictment states. Chatham County Police Dept. A spokesperson for the Chatham County District Attorney's office could not immediately be reached. Cook Jones told reporters Wednesday that that arrest is a "separate legal matter under investigation" and declined to elaborate.

☆ Georgia man arrested for shooting boy campaigning for Sen. Warnock in runoff election against Walker
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A former U.S. Marine was arrested in Georgia for allegedly shooting a 15-year-old boy who was at his front door campaigning for Sen. Raphael Warnock in his runoff election with Republican challenger Herschel Walker. "At this point, there is no indication the shooting was politically motivated," Savannah Police said in a statement. Thursday's shooting of the boy, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries to his leg, came five days before the runoff between the Democratic incumbent Warnock and the former football star Walker. The accused shooter, Jimmy Paiz, 43, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery, both of which are felonies, police said. Officers found the 15-year-old boy, who had been shot in his leg.

The Atlanta division of the FBI has identified remains found in a Georgia landfill as those of toddler Quinton Simon, bringing an end to the weeks-long search for the child that garnered national attention. The Chatham County District Attorney’s Office is continuing to investigate the case against the toddler's mother, the FBI said. Quinton Simon. Simon reported Quinton missing Oct. 5 from his home in an unincorporated part of the county near Savannah, police have said. On Oct. 12 Chatham County police announced they believed Quinton was dead and named his mother as the primary suspect.

The mother of a 20-month-old child who Georgia authorities believe is dead has been arrested and accused of murder, police said Monday. In October, Leilani Simon, 22, was named by Chatham County as the “prime suspect" in what police said was the disappearance and death of her son, Quinton Simon. Leilani Simon reported the toddler missing from his home in an unincorporated part of the county near Savannah on Oct. 5, police have said. The mother reported him missing at 9:39 a.m., he said. After Simon was named as the suspect, Hadley said there were no other suspects and no one else was being considered for criminal charges.

☆ Grandfather of missing Georgia toddler Quinton Simon killed in hit-and-run
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The grandfather of missing Georgia toddler Quinton Simon was killed after he was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene, deputies said. Quinton Simon. Chatham County Police Department"Preliminary investigation indicates the male was struck while in the roadway by an unknown vehicle," Burke County Sheriff's Office Capt. Moss is the paternal grandfather of Quinton, the 20-month-old toddler who was reported missing on Oct. 5 by his mother, Leilani Simon. Police later said they believe Quinton was dead after they spent more than a week searching the house and surrounding area.

☆ Chances of finding missing toddler Quinton Simon's body 'low,' police say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Chatham County Police Dept. The update came just over two weeks after Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley said investigators had “every belief” they would find Simon's remains at the landfill. "The landfill search has been a task more grueling (than) anyone could imagine," police added. The search for the missing toddler began on Oct. 5 when his mother, Leilani Simon, called 911 and said the boy had gone missing from his playpen. The effort to find her son has marked the "largest search and most far-reaching investigation in the history of the Chatham County Police Department," authorities said.

☆ Herschel Walker tries to turn 'prop' badge controversy into campaign gold
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Marc Caputo | Marc Caputo Is A Senior National Political Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

And Walker’s campaign told NBC News that it has ordered 1,000 imitation plastic law enforcement badges that say “I’m with Herschel” as a fundraising tool. “Herschel Walker has been a friend to law enforcement and has a record of honoring police,” said Gail Gitcho, the Walker campaign strategist who ordered the badges Saturday. "It just gives us a chance to talk about Herschel’s support of law enforcement and law enforcement's support for him. If he said, ‘I’m a law enforcement officer and I have these powers,’ then I have a problem with that. Asked whether he had a problem with Walker’s flashing the honorary badge onstage, Wilcher said: “No.

☆ Herschel Walker explains the badge he flashed at Senate debate
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Summer Concepcion | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, explained why he flashed a badge during Friday’s debate with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in an exclusive interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker. Herschel Walker spoke exclusively with NBC News’ Kristen Welker on why he flashed a police badge during a televised debate which aired on Oct. 14, 2022. NBC“I have badges all over the state of Georgia,” Walker said, noting he also had an “honorary sheriff badge” from Chatham County, where Warnock is from. "I have more more sheriff than have supported Herschel Walker, more sheriffs support Herschel Walker in Georgia than any candidate running today.”Walker then repeatedly denied having embellished his connection to law enforcement. “I’m right because I have worked in law enforcement, and I’ve been working with law enforcement,” Walker said.

☆ Georgia authorities say missing toddler Quinton Simon is likely dead and call his mom a 'prime suspect'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Phil-Helsel-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Phil Helsel | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Georgia officials said Wednesday night that they think a 20-month-old toddler who was reported missing a week ago is dead. "We are saddened to report that CCPD and the FBI have notified Quinton Simon’s family that we believe he is deceased," police said. Quinton was reported missing from his home in an unincorporated part of the county near Savannah on Oct. 5, police have said. It was not immediately clear whether the toddler's mother had an attorney. The FBI has also been involved since the boy was reported missing, he said.

☆ Over 40 FBI agents involved in search for Quinton Simon, missing Georgia toddler
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Mirna Alsharif | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Dennis-Romero-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

More than 40 FBI agents and personnel are on the ground in Georgia assisting in the search for 20-month-old Quinton Simon, who has been missing since last week, according to police. The toddler was reported missing Wednesday morning from his home in an unincorporated part of Chatham County near Savannah. The Chatham County Police Department requested the FBI's help the day the toddler was reported missing, Chief Jeffrey Hadley said at a news conference on Monday. "We understand that people far beyond Chatham County have become emotionally invested in this incident and the search for Quinton and they want answers. Members of the FBI assist the Chatham County Police Department in the search for toddler Quinton Simon in Georgia, on Monday.

Echipa de campanie a preşedintelui SUA Donald Trump şi republicanii din statul Georgia au intentat proces pentru suspendarea numărării voturilor, fiind al treilea demers legal cu privire la numărarea voturilor în alegerile din SUA, relatează DPA, citată de Agerpres. În cadrul procesului un judecător va cere autorităţilor din Chatham County, unde domină democraţii, să „securizeze” şi să stocheze buletinele de vot primite după ora locală 19:00 în ziua alegerilor. Potrivit lui, un angajat a adăugat buletine de vot primite prin poştă care nu au fost „procesate corespunzător” peste altele, provocând îngrijorări că unele buletine de vot primite după ora 19:00 ar putea fi amestecate. În Georgia, toate buletinele de vot trebuie primite până la ora 19:00 în ziua alegerilor pentru a fi numărate. Cei doi candidaţi la preşedinţia SUA nu şi-au revendicat încă victoria în statul Georgia.

Persons: SUA Donald Trump Organizations: Agerpres, Chatham County Locations: SUA, Georgia, Chatham

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