Week In Review: Congressman dead at 80 and wildfires ravage parts of Southeast Georgia

Week In Review

Alex Helmick | WABE

April 25th, 2026

A firefighter works the Brantley Highway 82 fire, Thursday, April 23, 2026, near Nahunta, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

The FBI is directing hundreds of analysts to its probe of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election

On the left are images of the homes of Grace Towns Hamilton and her father, and on the right is a portrait of Towns Hamilton.

Black History

Homes of Georgia's first Black female House representative to be preserved as historical sites in Vine City

A fireworks display at Truist Park at night

Holiday

Fourth of July: Where to go and how to travel across metro Atlanta

A person hands out bottled water during a race

Extreme Weather

Peachtree Road Race will start under a red flag as Atlantans face heat risk this July Fourth

Live Thrive founder Peggy Whitlow Ratcliffe stands to the left of blue and bag large bags of baled recyclables. There's two orange traffic cones on the right in the foreground of the photo.

City of Atlanta

Atlanta Center for Hard to Recycle Materials plans move to Westside

Immigrants

'We suffered so much before, and now with the terremoto, it's worse': Atlanta organizes to aid Venezuela

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Week In Review: Congressman dead at 80 and wildfires ravage parts of Southeast Georgia

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