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In this Sept. 29, 1964 photo, Rev. Martin Luther King, foreground, speaks with the media speaks at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention in Savannah, Ga. Ralph D. Abernathy, center, and Andrew Young, top, listen. Savannah Morning News photo chief Steve Bisson discovered the image along with 13 other negatives submerged within the newspaper’s old photo files, showing documentation of two Savannah appearances by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964. (Savannah Morning News via AP)

Archived photos rekindle need to keep MLK’s legacy alive

By NICK ROBERTSON and Savannah Morning News - Associated Press

This Jan. 11, 2020 photo shows the Eastside Theater in Savannah, Ga. As the 1950s and ’60s found the Eastside Theater hosting the premiere entertainment for black Savannahians on the eastside, the following decades would not be as kind. While during its heyday, the theater would see matinee movies, live performances and 15-cent popcorn, the next decades would see the decay of the roof, the isolation of the property and the disappearance of its community purpose for the neighborhood. (Steve Bisson/Savannah Morning News via AP)

Old theater faces uncertain future, possible disappearance

By ZACH DENNIS and Savannah Morning News - Associated Press

Black church believed to be oldest in US finishes repairs

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University of Utah student Suyog Shrestha turns on a TV in the student union on the campus in Salt Lake City as Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, makes his opening remarks Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019. The U.S. House launched the first public hearing Wednesday of Donald Trump's impeachment investigation, the extraordinary process to determine whether the 45th president of the United States should be removed from office. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

‘Bits and pieces’: Americans view impeachment on their terms

By STEPHEN GROVES and TAMARA LUSH - Associated Press

Georgia editorial roundup

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In this undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections, Gary Ray Bowles is shown. Bowles, a serial killer who preyed on older gay men during an eight-month spree in 1994 that left six dead, was executed by lethal injection Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, at Florida State prison. (Florida Department of Corrections via AP)

Serial killer who preyed on gay men executed in Florida

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections, Gary Ray Bowles is shown. Bowles is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019, for the murder of Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach in November 1994. (Florida Department of Corrections via AP)

Victim of 1994 serial killings remembered as execution nears

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON - Associated Press

Savannah names new fire chief

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Georgia editorial roundup

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New cultural arts center, theater opens in Georgia city

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This Wednesday, March 28, 2019 photo shows signs on the doors of the Bolton Street Baptist Church before a meeting to discuss an upcoming mayoral race in Savannah, Ga. Organizers of the meeting to discuss an upcoming mayoral race in Georgia barred reporters from attending, unless they were African-American. News outlets report the Wednesday meeting at the church in Savannah was held to try to unite the city’s black community behind a single candidate for mayor. (Eric Curl/Savannah Morning News via AP)

Candidate apologizes for attending ‘Black Press Only’ event

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In this Wednesday, March 27, 2019 photo, signs posted on the doors of the Bolten Street Baptist Church are seen during a meeting coordinated to garner support for one black candidate in Savannah's mayoral race, in Savannah, Ga. Organizers of a meeting to discuss an upcoming mayoral race in Georgia barred reporters from attending, unless they were African-American. (Eric Curl/Savannah Morning News via AP)

‘Black Press Only!’: White reporters not allowed at Savannah, Georgia mayoral race event

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Savannah police to add eyes in sky for variety of calls

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FILE - This April 5, 2018 file photo shows Jameillah Smiley holding a framed photograph of her son, Ricky Boyd, at her home in Savannah, Ga. Police were justified in fatally shooting Ricky Boyd, a 20-year-old man, a grand jury said Wednesday, May 23, 2018 after concluding that he pointed a BB pistol at officers who had come to arrest him. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum, File)

The Latest: Lawyer slams handling of Georgia police shooting

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Juan Polanco, left, Denis Oliveras, center, and Carlos Narvaez, all childhood friends of deceased military pilot Maj. Jose Rafael Roman, gather at Roman's family home in Manati, Puerto Rico, Thursday, May 3, 2018. Military investigators began the arduous task Thursday of answering why a C-130 Hercules cargo plane being flown into retirement by an experienced crew of nine airmen plunged onto a Georgia highway. Families and friends grieved and took note of the fact that Puerto Rico's planes are the oldest in the National Guard inventory. The men said that Roman always dreamt of being a pilot and that they would sometimes joke about how old the planes were that he flew. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)

Puerto Rico demands answers, mourns loss of 9 airmen

By DANICA COTO and RUSS BYNUM - Associated Press

Flames and smoke rise from an Air National Guard C-130 cargo plane after it crashed near Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, May 2, 2018. (James Lavine via AP)

Correction: Military Plane Crash-The Latest story

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This undated family photo made available by Joyce Vance, shows U.S. Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance, who was killed by a mail bomb sent to his home in Mountain Brook, Ala., in 1989. Walter Leroy Moore Jr. was convicted of capital murder in the blast and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on April 19, 2018. Moody has asked a court to block his scheduled execution this week, arguing that Alabama has no right to carry out the death penalty while he is also serving a federal sentence. (Joyce Vance via AP)

The Latest: 83-year-old Alabama mail-bomb killer is executed

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Vice President Mike Pence, center, his wife Karen Pence, left, and his mother Nancy Pence Fritch, right, march in the St. Patrick's Day parade Saturday, March 17, 2018, in Savannah, Ga. Irish immigrants to Savannah and their descendants have been celebrating St. Patrick's Day with a parade since 1824. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

Pence takes short St. Patrick’s Day stroll in Savannah

By Russ Bynum - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence, center, and his wife wife Karen Pence, right, welcome Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of Ireland, left, to the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, Friday, March 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Police chief pledges respect for speech rights

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This cover image released by St. Martin's Press shows &quot;The Echo Killing,&quot; by Christi Daugherty. (St. Martin's Press via AP)

Review: Author nails newsroom culture in ‘The Echo Killing’

By OLINE H. COGDILL - Associated Press