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GA Good News: 5K Amazon Jobs; Breast Cancer Donations; Free Pets

Good news around Georgia this week includes $30,000 in breast cancer donations, waived adoption fees and 5,000 Amazon jobs.

Roughly 1,200 t-shirts and hoodies were sold to help Cherokee firefighters' wives.
Roughly 1,200 t-shirts and hoodies were sold to help Cherokee firefighters' wives. (Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services)

GEORGIA — We see a lot of heartbreaking, bad news every day. But despite the bad news, there's still so much good news to be shared, including DNA from 1980s child murders getting tested in Utah, Amazon jobs, 24/7 mental health support for jail inmates, waived adoption fees at a local animal shelter and donations for firefighters' wives with breast cancer.

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