Aug. 28—Hundreds of friends, family members and political figures gathered Saturday afternoon in the Ramsey Conference Center at Lanier Technical College to celebrate the life of former Georgia first ...

The invite read: “Nothing fancy, just love.” Deal’s daughter said the couple met through a mutual friend, Deal’s former fraternity brother. Deal’s first wife, Sandra, passed away in 2022.

Chestnut was banned from the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in 2024 because of a sponsorship deal he signed with Impossible Foods, which sells plant-based meat substitutes, including hot dogs.

Chestnut won his first Nathan’s hot dog eating championship — and the coveted Mustard Belt — in 2007. Since then, he was champion every year through 2014, lost to Matt Stonie in 2015, then ...