Fifty years after an explosion claimed the lives of 30 people at the Thiokol munitions manufacturing plant in Woodbine, a nonprofit is calling on Georgia’s U.S. Congressional representatives to formally honor the lives of those workers. Most killed in the explosion on the morning of Feb. 3, 1971, were poor, Black women who perished while […]
Author Archives: Laura Corley
Laura Corley is an investigative reporter who has covered public safety and government and education in her home state of Georgia since 2014.
At The (Macon) Telegraph, Laura used open records requests to shine light on the shadows of police misconduct, government salaries, suspicious political connections and more.
Her bylines also have appeared in The Douglas County Sentinel, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Georgia Public Broadcasting.
The Forsyth native was named the state’s Emerging Journalist by Georgia Associated Press Managing Editors in 2016.
