ATLANTA — With the coronavirus pandemic at last under control, election-year politics dominated Georgia this year. Voters reelected a Republican governor and a Democratic U.S. senator in a wave of ticket-splitting that drew national attention.
Here’s a look at the top Georgia stories of 2022:
January 7 — The father-and-son murderers of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery near Brunswick in 2020 are sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The case led the General Assembly to pass a hate-crimes bill and overhaul Georgia’s 19th-century citizens arrest law.
January 10 — The Georgia Bulldogs win college football’s national championship, defeating the University of Alabama 33-18 in Indianapolis.
March 1 — The University System of Georgia Board of Regents votes to hire former two-term Gov. Sonny Perdue to become the system’s 14th…
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