A Georgia Department of Corrections special agent has been arrested for allegedly misusing the state’s license plate reader system, adding another case to the continuing controversy surrounding Flock Safety cameras and other automated license plate readers in Georgia.
A Rome woman has been sentenced to two years in prison and 18 years on probation after being convicted of abandoning three adults with intellectual disabilities outside their group home on a cold January night.
Finding housing that local families can afford remains a challenge in Chattooga County, even as home prices have softened from a year ago and a new apartment development near Trion prepares to break ground.
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Mrs. Evelyn Sue Nicholson Jennings, age 92, of Gaylesville, AL, died Sunday, September 6, 2026, at her residence.
Mrs. Jennings was born January 11, 1934, in Summerville, GA, daughter of the late Howard Nicholson and Maudie Teems Nicholson. She was a homemaker and a member of the Unity Baptist Church. She loved playing guitar and singing.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert “Bob” Jennings; sisters, Ellen Ray, Charlotte Hegwood, Dorthy Hilyer, and Patricia Verdin; and a granddaughter, Kristin McMahan Milner.
Survivors include her sons, Danny Jennings, Dicky Jennings; a daughter, Deborah McMahan; grandchildren, Joey Jennings, Alison McMahan, Angela Edge, B.J. Jennings, Heather Lee, and Misty Blackwell; 12 great-grandchildren; and 6 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 P.M. (GA Time) Friday, September 11, 2026, from the Mason Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Stanley Koonce officiating. Interment will follow in Moseley Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Harold Maddox, Josh Edge, Billy Jennings, Alex Edge, Joey Jennings, and Wayne Stancell.
Mrs. Jennings will be in state at Mason Funeral Home and the family will receive friends from 12:00 Noon (GA Time) until the hour of service on Friday.
Flowers will be accepted, but the family respectfully requests no food.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Monday, September 7, 2026:
A cold front moving through Georgia is bringing a noticeable change in the weather for Labor Day, with cooler temperatures replacing the heat that has dominated much of the past several days.
For generations of Chattooga County families, the textile mill at Trion was more than a place to work.
It was at the center of a community.
Families depended on the mill for their livelihoods. Generations worked there, and the history of Trion itself became inseparable from the history of textile manufacturing.
But during the depths of the Great Depression, tensions between textile workers and mill management were growing throughout the South.
In September 1934, those tensions reached Trion.
And on September 5, they turned deadly.
Two men — Deputy Sheriff W. M. “Milton” Hix and strike sympathizer J. B. Blalock — were fatally shot during a confrontation outside the Trion Cotton Mill.
The events in Trion were part of a much larger labor uprising that became known as the General Textile Strike of 1934, one of the largest labor disputes in American history and the largest labor protest the South had seen.
