Georgia
state, United States
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Georgia turns to backup Stockton at quarterback in CFP quarterfinal; Beck has season-ending surgery
• Dec. 23, 2024, 7:01 PM ET (AP)
Farmers are still reeling months after Hurricane Helene ravaged crops across the South
• Dec. 21, 2024, 9:04 AM ET (AP)
Farmers, business owners, fire survivors face uncertainty after $100B in disaster relief flounders
• Dec. 19, 2024, 8:38 PM ET (AP)
Prosecutor Fani Willis is removed from the Georgia election case against Trump and others
• Dec. 19, 2024, 5:38 PM ET (AP)
Rudy Giuliani ordered to appear at contempt hearing in January over failure to give up assets
• Dec. 18, 2024, 8:05 PM ET (AP)
Georgia, constituent state of the United States of America. Ranking fourth among the U.S. states east of the Mississippi River in terms of total area (though first in terms of land area) and by many years the youngest of the 13 former English colonies, Georgia was founded in 1732, at which time its boundaries were even larger—including much of the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi. Its landscape presents numerous contrasts, with more soil types than any other state as it sweeps from the Appalachian Mountains in the north (on the borders of Tennessee and North Carolina) to the marshes ...(100 of 6375 words)