(GA. NEWS NETWORK)
*Georgia lawmakers say children with severe mental and behavioral health needs are still being left in emergency rooms after families say they have no other options. Hospitals report more than 20 such cases this year, as the state’s child welfare agency faces an 85-million-dollar budget shortfall. Lawmakers are now pushing recommendations to expand treatment options and intervene earlier to keep families together.
*President Trump’s long warm again/cool again relationship with Gov. Brian Kemp has taken another turn and is now cool again. msn.com reports Trump took to social media recently to again claim that he, not Joe Biden, carried Georgia in the 2020 election, declaring that Kemp should be jailed as well as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Atlanta poll worker Ruby Freeman. As late as last year at a Trump campaign rally in Atlanta, the now-President had nothing but praise for Kemp.
*A Walker County two-year-old is in critical condition after a Christmas morning shooting. Sheriff’s deputies say they were called to a home on Tarvin Road before 10 a.m. Thursday and found the two-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head. The child was rushed to a hospital with critical wounds. Deputies say the child’s father and another infant were at the home at the time of the shooting.