Morning Reads for Tuesday, October 29

California is still on fire.

• A new regulation in Georgia reduces the requirements for emergency medical personnel in ambulances.
• A man serving a life sentence for a conviction of rape and aggravated child molestation was accidentally released from Rogers State Prison in Reidsville.
• If you missed the demonstration of the state’s new voting machines at the state fair a few weeks ago, you can check them out at the Columbia County fair this week.
• Meanwhile, if you haven’t voted in a while, you may be one of the 330,000 Georgians at risk of being purged from the voter rolls.
• ICE detainees at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin filed a federal complaint alleging human rights violations.
• There are more than 500 So You Want To Be Georgia’s Next U.S. Senator applications so far, with no end date in sight.
• All this talk about high-speed rail in Georgia, yet we don’t have a MARTA bus stop at Atlanta’s only Amtrak station.
• A gender reveal party in Iowa took a tragic, fatal turn when the hosts inadvertently built a pipe bomb.