A dog in Georgia is believed to have been the second canine in the U.S. to test positive for the virus that causes COVID-19, health officials said.
A Stone Mountain, Georgia man was indicted by the Chattooga County Grand Jury last week after he was accused of traveling to Chattooga County to have sexual encounters with a twelve-year-old girl.
Two weeks of increases in COVID-19 cases in the ten-county Northwest Health District point to a concerning sign that our community is moving in the wrong direction to contain the virus, according to Director Dr. Gary Voccio. District-wide, confirmed cases have increased 21% in the past two weeks.
Georgia’s state election board voted last week to extend a rule allowing counties to utilize absentee ballot drop boxes through elections in November.
The need for additional sources of tax revenue wasn’t enough to get casino gambling or pari-mutuel betting on horse racing over the finish line this year. A new player in the gambling debate, sports betting, also fizzled during the session’s final days.
A Trion woman was arrested in Floyd County over the weekend after she was accused of taking someone’s wallet.
Dr. John Cowan has racked up a host of political endorsements in his race to defeat top vote-receiver Marjorie Greene as the two Republicans battle it out in a hotly contested runoff to see which one will likely win the 14th District Congressional seat that is being vacated by Republican Tom Graves.
