The Georgia Department of Education announced on Wednesday a pilot project to test a new method for evaluating teacher performance.
The murder trial of Renee Lanham will continue into next week. The trial has been going on for over two weeks, including a delay for a COVID-19 case.
A thirty-six-year-old Rome woman was arrested Wednesday at her Old Summerville Road residence on a felony warrant charging her with aggravated cruelty to animals.
The Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a report of debit card fraud involving a Menlo-area church. According to a report released this week, a sheriff’s deputy spoke with the person who handles the Chelsea Baptist Church Youth bank account. The complainant told the deputy that she went to use the debit card for the church’s youth account and the card was declined. When she went to United Community Bank to check, someone had used the card number to access over $9,700 in the church’s funds. The incident was turned over to an investigator. The charges were made between June 16th and August 28th, according to the report.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Friday, September 2, 2022:
Yesterday, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp extended the temporary suspension of the state sales tax on fuel in the Peach State. The gas tax suspension had been in place since March of this year.
Sixteen people in Northwest Georgia died from COVID-19 in the month of August, according to the latest round of numbers released on Wednesday of this week by the Georgia Department of Public Health.
Chattooga County Commissioner Blake Elsberry says that he will not be attending a meeting organized by several concerned citizens about the land use ordinance that he hastily adopted earlier this year.
The Georgia Department of Corrections has confirmed that an inmate died at Hays State Prison on Monday of this week after a stabbing incident.
The Cherokee County Coroner has released the name of the log truck driver killed in an accident taking place in Centre, Alabama at around 11:30 Tuesday morning.