Friday, May 22, 2026

Good Morning! On this day in 1875, artist Lucy May Stanton was born in Atlanta. Her watercolor portraits, many of which feature prominent Georgians, hang in the Met, the National Portrait Gallery, and other prestigious galleries.

It's the Friday kick-off to Memorial Day weekend! Storms may roll across most of the state today, so keep an umbrella handy as you head into the long weekend.

The Democratic National Committee just released its long-buried 192-page autopsy of the 2024 election. What went wrong? Who was to blame for their losses? While the report assigns blame across the board, it leaves some of the biggest questions still unanswered. On The Flyover Podcast, Ayla Brown shares the five biggest revelations from the report, what it quietly leaves out, and how both sides are reacting. Tune in here!

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Runoffs Extend Down-ballot

Tuesday's crowded Georgia primaries settled some contests outright but sent many statewide races to a June 16 runoff, including down-ballot contests.

Contests for lieutenant governor and secretary of state are among the races beyond the Republican governor and U.S. Senate battles that produced no outright winners.

You can see unofficial results for many of the primary contests here.

The Georgia Secretary of State's Office reported turnout for the primary was 27.9%.

Stuntmen Eye Comeback

Georgia's film workers have weathered a bruising stretch, but the action is picking back up for at least one group of performers: stuntmen.

With projects like Tulsa King and Comeback King filming in the Peach State this spring, the pipeline for stunt performers is rebuilding.

"It seems like slowly, but surely, it's getting there," stunt performer Dean Grimes said.

Other film workers can also point to a momentum shift as industry experts project roughly $3 billion in film and TV spending in the state this year, well above recent years' lows. "2026 is much better than 2025 was," said Lee Thomas, director of the Georgia Film Office.

Costco Eyes Macon Store

Central Georgia may finally be getting its first Costco, with the wholesale giant filing a rezoning application for a site near Bass Road in North Macon.

The application targets roughly 27 acres at 1990 Bass Road and 5384 New Forsyth Road.

Plans call for a 158,000-square-foot warehouse, 873 parking spaces, and a 32-pump gas station, one of the largest retail footprints Central Georgia has ever seen.

The proposal is on the draft agenda for the June 22 meeting of the Macon-Bibb planning and zoning commission.

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➤ Hall County: A Norfolk Southern train derailed after striking a lowboy trailer, closing multiple railroad crossings near Gainesville. No major injuries were reported. (More)

➤ Savannah: Democrat MiQuan Green won the state House District 165 primary and will replace retiring state Rep. Edna Jackson in January, pledging to continue Jackson's priorities. (More)

➤ Berrien County: The GBI arrested Austin Abrams, 15, of Ray City, on felony murder charges in the Monday shooting death of Michael Paris, 42. (More)

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➤ Georgia baseball’s Daniel Jackson was named SEC Player of the Year after winning the conference Triple Crown with a .394 batting average, 27 home runs, and 77 RBIs. He’s also the first catcher in Division I history to post a 25-homer, 25-steal season. (More)

➤ Former Georgia linebacker Nolan Smith Jr. was arrested last week in Twiggs County after being clocked going 135 mph on Interstate 16—nearly double the speed limit. (More)

➤ Angel Reese's home debut with the Atlanta Dream drew 1.24 million viewers on NBC last Sunday, making it one of the most-watched Sunday games in May in league history. (More)

➤ No. 10 Georgia softball continues its series against No. 7 Tennessee this afternoon for Game 2 of the Knoxville Super Regional. (More)

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➤ Port of Savannah container throughput fell 2.5% for the fiscal year to date, with April alone dropping 14% as tariff uncertainty pushed importers to pull back after a record front-loading surge. (More)

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➤ Eighteen-year-old Aireona Tysdal of Columbia County graduated high school and launched her firefighting career simultaneously after completing her school's career pathway program. (More)

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➤ Atlanta-based PrizePicks founder Adam Wexler committed $10 million to the University of Georgia's men's basketball program, the largest single donation in Bulldogs athletics history. (More)

➤ Film crews covered the downtown of Micanopy, Florida, in red clay and redressed its storefronts to recreate an 1860s Georgia town for the TV adaptation of Patrick D. Smith's classic novel A Land Remembered. (More)

➤ High school senior Ralph Long IV will graduate this week and head to Georgia Tech in the fall, 65 years after his grandfather, Ralph Long Jr., helped desegregate the campus as one of its Three Pioneers. (More)

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