(GA. NEWS NETWORK)
*Republican nominee Rick Jackson has a slim lead over Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms in the race to become Georgia’s next governor. Rasmussen Reports released a new poll this week that surveyed a little over 1,000 Georgia voters. They found that 48 percent would vote for Jackson if the election were held today, compared with 45 percent for Bottoms, and seven percent of respondents remained undecided.
*Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is struggling with customer satisfaction, according to the recently released North America Airport Satisfaction Study. The Atlanta airport ranked 15th among the country’s 20 largest airports.
*Terrance Banks, a fourteen-time convicted felon from Atlanta with a violent history, has been sentenced to nearly nine years in federal prison for illegally possessing a stolen firearm. “Banks is a gun-wielding predator whose violence was unabated by nearly a quarter century of arrests and convictions at the state level,” said U.S. Attorney Theodore S. Hertzberg. “Finally, imposition of a significant federal sentence that must be served without the possibility of parole will keep Banks from terrorizing our community.”