The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) issued its fiscal year (FY) 2020 enforcement fact sheet highlighting the Agency’s recovery of over $3.1 billion in direct payments to plans, participants and beneficiaries in FY 2020.
Scams related to online purchases, already on the rise in 2019, spiked further following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research by the Better Business Bureau (BBB). A staggering 80.5 percent of consumers reporting online purchase scams in 2020 lost money. That figure has been creeping up from 71.2 percent in 2015, when BBB began collecting data.
With slightly more than 1 week to go, 38% of active voters in Chattooga County have already cast ballots. This is a significant surge from past years and is part of the record early turnout that Georgia has seen so far ahead of the November elections.
MRS. INEZ “KNOCKIE” BLACKMON, age 84, of Martin Street, Summerville, Georgia passed away Sunday afternoon at her residence.
Zeta is the 27th named tropical storm of the season, and is expected to bring large amounts of rain to Georgia on Wednesday and Thursday.
Word came on Monday morning that Floyd Medical Center and Redmond Regional Medical Center in Rome are reporting a combined total of 58 hospitalizations for COVID-19. That was up from 46 on Friday of last week.
The Georgia Department of Public Health has named Floyd Medical Center a Level II Emergency Cardiac Care Center.
The State Board of Education is taking public comments in advance of a vote on lowering the course grade weight of the year-end Georgia Milestones tests.
Walker County officially approved a change in ambulance service from Puckett EMS to CHI Memorial. Commissioner Shannon Whitfield said the county will extend a million dollars up-front to CHI, so they can buy the five new ambulances required.