Here’s the lineup of Georgia stories moving for the weekend of May 18-19:

Moving Saturday

GEORGIA REPUBLICANS

ATHENS, Ga. — Gov. Nathan Deal, Republican strategist Karl Rove and three congressmen running for U.S. Senate address the GOP state convention in Athens. State Republicans also elect their party chair among a crowded field of candidates and are expected to debate several resolutions including whether to call for an immediate halt to the state’s implementation of the Common Core academic standards. By Christina A. Cassidy.

Developing from all-day meeting.

SENATE DEMOCRATS

ATLANTA — Republicans aren’t the only party engaged in internal jostling ahead of midterm elections. Democratic wrangling in Georgia and South Dakota — some based on personalities and old loyalties, some based on ideology — ended with the national party losing out on two of their top-tier recruits for Senate races in Republican strongholds. Democrats say they’ll be fine without Congressman John Barrow in Georgia and former Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin in South Dakota, but it almost certainly will mean more liberal, less-known nominees. The two states highlight the Democrats’ challenging dynamic as they work to keep control of the Senate: They have a five-seat cushion that requires Republicans to win 8 out of the 10 races expected to be most competitive, but nearly all of those contests come in states where President Barack Obama never won and where he remains unpopular. By Bill Barrow and Tom Beaumont.

STATE OF HBCUs

ATLANTA — More than half the nation’s historically black colleges and universities have seen a drop in their graduation rate in recent years, while nearly 40 percent have seen enrollment declines. It’s sobering news on the eve of President Barack Obama’s visit Sunday to deliver the commencement speech at Morehouse College. While all institutions of higher learning have struggled in the years since the recession, HBCUs as a whole have faced a number of challenges. By Justin Pope and Christina A. Cassidy.

Moving Sunday

OBAMA-GEORGIA

AP plans two stories from President Obama’s appearance at Morehouse College:

—A piece about the president’s commencement address.

—A reaction story to the president’s visit and remarks.

AP Member Exchanges

Moving Saturday

GA–HERITAGE TOURISM

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The temptation is to think that what follows here is the whole story. It’s not, of course. So much happened before the people who later settled in Savannah’s Pin Point community ever reached the shores of Georgia’s barrier islands in the 18th century, so much unfolded even before they were ripped from West Africa, chained and humiliated, and sold in the dusty markets of the new world. But you have to start somewhere. You have to feel your way along the horizon of history, choose a time and place to pick up the thread and hope it does justice to all that came before. That is the goal of a unique partnership of three historical sites stretching along the city’s Southside, sites linked not only by geography and purpose, but by their individual and cumulative histories.

By Sean Horgan. The Savannah Morning News.

AP Photos Pursuing.

Moving Sunday

GA–UNDERWATER ROBOT

ATHENS, Ga. — A University of Georgia marine scientist will explore the edges of the Gulf Stream with the university’s first robotic submersible. Physical oceanographer Renato Castelao will work with another researcher to analyze data collected by the torpedo-shaped device, dubbed the Salty Dawg. The Salty Dawg will work in tandem with another submersible owned by North Carolina State University to record oxygen content, organic carbon, water temperature, chlorophyll, salinity, current speed and other measurements at varying depths in the eddies that form as the Gulf Stream flows northward along the Atlantic coast.

By Lee Shearer. The Athens Banner-Herald.

AP Photos Pursuing.