Georgia gas prices continue to decline at the pump compared to a week ago. Georgia drivers are now paying an average price of $3.52 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline (subject to change overnight). Monday’s state average was 11 cents less than a week ago, 59 cents less than a month ago, and 56 cents more than this time last year.
When federal workplace safety inspectors visited three Dollar General stores in Georgia earlier this year, they found exit routes obstructed, boxes of merchandise stacked unsafely and electrical panels hard to access, violations often cited at Dollar General locations.
Homecoming will be this coming Sunday, August 21st, beginning at 10:30 Georgia time at Mount Calvary Baptist Church on Lookout Mountain. Brother Kevin Smith will preach the message, and Brother Glen Wilbanks and family will be the special singers. Everyone is invited. The Church is located at 10090 Cherokee County Road 103 on Lookout Mountain, just across the Georgia Line, South of Cloudland, GA.
One person died and eight families were displaced in a Saturday night fire at Carriage Hill Apartments in LaFayette. LaFayette Police report that arson is the cause and a suspect is in custody.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Monday, August 15, 2022:
Alongside the Georgia Highlands College Foundation, the leadership team at GHC has created a new scholarship to help students pay for college. The new “Ready to Start” scholarship is for any student who falls a few hundred dollars short of paying after financial aid and other scholarships have been applied.
Gwinnett County police have arrested and charged a Georgia State University campus police officer with rape and kidnapping after a Lawrenceville woman came forward and reported the August 5th incident.
A forty-seven-year-old Summerville woman has been implicated by the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office in a bomb threat late last week.
The Georgia State Patrol hopes your votes will fuel them to victory in the Annual Best Looking Cruiser Calendar Contest. It’s held through the American Association of State Troopers.
A Menlo man was arrested in LaFayette last week after police performed a traffic stop. According to reports, LaFayette Police stopped a vehicle on West Main Street after they noticed that the driver of the vehicle was not wearing a seat belt. While conducting the traffic stop, a K-9 indicated the presence of drugs inside the vehicle. After performing a search of the car, police found a plastic baggie that contained suspected methamphetamine. Police arrested thirty-nine-year-old Jamie Lee Culbert of Menlo, who was booked into the Walker County Jail.
