A nineteen-year-old Chattooga County man was arrested this week on burglary charges in connection with two burglaries in the Lawrence Community in Cherokee County, Alabama.
Any hope that COVID-19 would be a thing of the past, or at least would have subsided by 2022 is not going to be a reality. COVID-19 cases have increased recently and are extremely high. The number of hospitalized COVID patients has also risen in the Chattooga County area. Deaths have remained at about the same level. The test positivity rate in Chattooga County is also high, suggesting that cases may be undercounted, according to the latest data.
A cold case is heating up as DNA evidence helps identify a suspect who police believe beat, raped and then shot and killed a young girl in Southwest Atlanta in 1995.
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is announcing the allocation of Merck and Pfizer oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19 to select retail pharmacies in Georgia. Initial supply of Molnupiravir and Paxlovid™ from the federal government is very limited. DPH anticipates additional allocations in the coming weeks as production increases.
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There were no arrests reported over the past 24-hours in the 5:00 AM booking report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office.
The Chattooga County Grand Jury has indicated a thirty-seven-year-old Chattooga County man for arson in connection with a fire this past August at Cloudland.
A Jackson County, Alabama resident was taken to jail this week, after authorities discovered an illegal moonshine still, over two gallons of untaxed moonshine, meth, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia inside his home.
After obtaining several admissions that drugs had been purchased at a particular address, LaFayette Police made a “parole check” at a trailer located at 49 Fortune Street.
A twenty-one-year-old Summerville man was arrested on Christmas Day after complaints that he was disturbing the peace and cursing in front of a woman and her children.