While not necessarily a new type of scam, the rates of government impostor scams are beginning to rapidly increase across the nation, particularly from scammers claiming to represent the Social Security Administration (SSA). As tax season comes to a close and the rate of IRS-impersonation scams begins to decline, SSA impersonators rise to take their place. In 2020, more than $395,000 was lost to government impostor scams across the nation and, and a large part of these scams claim that they are representatives of the SSA, according to BBB Scam Tracker data.

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A forty-five-year-old Chattooga County sex offender was arrested last week on charges of child molestation out of Floyd County.

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“He has provided care that has made my father feel like a real person and not just a patient.” Those words, written by a family about the care a Floyd Medical Center registered nurse provided, explain one of the reasons Elliott Gault was honored with the DAISY Award. The DAISY Award is an international program that recognizes bedside nurses for the exceptional care they provide patients. The award was established by the family of Patrick Barnes after he died from an auto-immune disease while being treated in a Seattle hospital. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. The Barnes family was thankful for the care he received and created the award to thank bedside nurses for the job they do.

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Recent flooding in downtown Summerville has drawn the attention of local elected officials.  The heavy rains that brought on massive flooding in the area of the intersection of Commerce Street (Highway 27) and the Menlo Highway (Highway 48), damaged local businesses and some residences.

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All eyes are on a tropical storm that formed in the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina on Monday morning.

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