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Almanac
Statistics for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport
through 5 p.m. Thursday
Temperature
High/low
45 38
Normal high/low
52734°
Record high
69° in 1971
Record low
10° in 1960
Precipitation (in inches)
24 hrs. ending 5 p.m. Thu.
0.02
Month to date
3.26
Normal month to date
3.55
Year to date
45.39
Normal year to date
53.95
Record for date
3.65 in 2013
Main Offender: Particulates
Source: Environmental Protection Agency
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Albany
41 16 pc
36 20 pc
Atlanta
23 12 pc
27 17 s
Augusta
43 15 pc
33 20 s
Brunswick
58 22 pc
38 23 s
Chattanooga
16 12c
23 13 pc
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Columbus
31 15 pc
32 20 s
Dalton
17 11 c
25 14 s
Greenville
36 10 c
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Macon
36 14 pc
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Savannah
52 20 c
36 21 pc
UV Index
9 a.m. Noon 3 p.m. 6 p.m.
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Lake Levels
Lake data in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday
Lake
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Lake Lanier
1071.0
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Allatoona Lake
840.0
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Burton Lake
1865.0
1859.06
-0.05
Clark’s Hill Lake
330.0
326.36
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Hartwell Lake
660.0
656.60
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Russell Lake
480.0
475.02
+0.03
West Point Lake
635.0
628.63
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Sun and Moon
Sunrise today 7:38 a.m.
Sunset tonight 5:30 p.m.
Moonrise today 8:05 a.m.
Moonset today 5:44 p.m.
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Associated Press
Firefighters walk amid the destruction in the center of Managua, Nicaragua, following the
earthquake that leveled much of the capital city, shown Dec. 24,1972.
On this date:
In 1788, Maryland passed an act to cede an
area “not exceeding ten miles square” for
the seat of the national government; about
two-thirds of the area became the District of
Columbia.
In 1913, the Federal Reserve System was cre
ated as President Woodrow Wilson signed the
Federal Reserve Act.
In 1968,82 crew members of the U.S. intelli
gence ship Pueblo were released by North Ko
rea, 11 months after they had been captured.
In 1972, a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck
Nicaragua; the disaster claimed some 5,000
lives.
In 1986, the experimental airplane Voyager,
piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager,
completed the first non-stop, non-refueled
round-the-world flight as it returned safely
to Edwards Air Force Base in California.
In 1997, a federal jury in Denver convicted
Terry Nichols of involuntary manslaughter and
conspiracy for his role in the Oklahoma City
bombing, declining to find him guilty of mur
der. (Nichols was sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole.)
In 2003, a jury in Chesapeake, Virginia, sen
tenced teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in
prison, sparing him the death penalty.
In 2016, the United States allowed the U.N. Se
curity Council to condemn Israeli settlements
in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a
“flagrant violation” of international law; the de
cision to abstain from the council’s 14-0 vote
was one of the biggest American rebukes of its
longstanding ally in recent memory.
ENTERTAINMENT
Jurors deliberating
whether Lanez shot
Megan Thee Stallion
LOS ANGELES — Jurors began deliber
ations Thursday at the trial of rapper Tory
Lanez, who is charged with shooting and
wounding hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion
in the feet.
The jury of seven women and five men
received the case late Thursday morning
after Lanez’s defense completed a closing
argument from a day earlier and Los Ange
les County prosecutors gave a brief rebuttal.
They will decide on three felony counts
brought against the 30-year-old Canadian
rapper, who has pleaded not guilty: dis
charging a firearm with gross negligence,
assault with a semiautomatic firearm and
carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in
a vehicle. The counts could lead to up to 22
years in prison and deportation.
Megan Thee Stallion, 27, whose legal
name is Megan Pete, testified that Lanez
fired a handgun at the back of her feet and
shouted for her to dance as she walked
away from an SUV in which they had been
riding in the Hollywood Hills in the summer
of 2020. She needed surgery to remove bul-
Celebrity birthdays
Actor Ronnie Schell is 91. Former Emperor
Akihito of Japan is 89. Actor Frederic Forrest
is 86. Rock musician Jorma Kaukonen is 82.
Actor-comedian Harry Shearer is 79. U.S.
Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark (ret.) is 78. Actor
Susan Lucci is 76. Singer-musician Adrian
Belew is 73. Rock musician Dave Murray
(Iron Maiden) is 66. Actor Joan Severance is
64. Singer Terry Weeks is 59. Rock singer Ed
die Vedder (Pearl Jam) is 58. The former first
lady of France, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is 55.
Rock musician Jamie Murphy is 47. Jazz mu
sician Irvin Mayfield is 45. Actor Estella War
ren is 44. Actor Elvy Yost is 35. Actor Anna
Maria Perez de Tagle is 32. Actor Spencer
Daniels is 30. Actor Caleb Foote is 29.
let fragments from her feet.
In closing arguments, prosecutors empha
sized the courage it took for her to come
forward and the vitriol she has faced for it.
They said she had no incentive to tell any
thing but the truth.
Lanez’s lawyer alleged in his closing that
the shots were actually fired by Megan’s
then-best-friend Kelsey Harris in a jeal
ous fight over Lanez, who tried to stop the
shooting. The attorney, George Mgdesyan,
alleges Megan created a more sympathetic
narrative by pinning the shooting on Lanez.
Associated Press