UGA graduate killed; New data center in SW Georgia; Planned ICE detention facilities

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A UGA graduate and ROTC instructor was killed when a gunman opened fire in his classroom at Old Dominion University.

The episode opens with news that Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw, a UGA graduate and ROTC instructor, was killed in a classroom shooting at Old Dominion University. The shooter was a former Army National Guardsman convicted of supporting ISIS. The show then covers a state senate committee grilling former special prosecutor Nathan Wade about misconduct allegations in the Fulton County election interference case. A large data center project by QTS is planned for Early County in southwest Georgia, though the application leaves energy questions blank. Gun death data shows a slight national decline but high rates in the South, with Georgia among the top 10 states for increased firearm deaths and Black youth over four times more likely to die from assault than white youth. The Georgia legislature passed a bill to help nurses, social workers, and therapists with substance use disorder regain their licenses after rehabilitation. The episode features an interview with Washington Post reporter Douglas McMillan about ICE's purchase of warehouses in Social Circle and Oakwood, Georgia, to convert into detention centers holding up to 10,000 people. McMillan describes poor conditions at an existing tent facility in El Paso, including noise, constant lights, and infectious disease outbreaks. He explains the secrecy of the plan and infrastructure concerns, such as Social Circle's water system being built for 4,000 residents potentially needing to support 8,500 detainees. Other segments cover an Army sergeant seeking to plead guilty to a shooting at Fort Stewart, Atlanta's World Cup traffic plans, a new GE Appliances product line in Walker County, a pre-op app for children developed by a Georgia doctor, Oscar predictions with Georgia connections, and weekend festival listings across the state.

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Georgia Today connects a Virginia campus shooting to Georgia, then weighs detention plans against one small town's capacity.

Georgia Today gathers three Georgia-facing stories into a compact briefing: the killing of University of Georgia graduate and ROTC instructor Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shaw in a shooting at Old Dominion University, a southwest Georgia data-center project, and planned ICE…

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