The Georgia Board of Natural Resources on April 24 named a former congressman as the recipient of the 2023 Rock Howard Conservation Achievement Award during its meeting on Jekyll Island.
A Georgia man was sentenced to prison on Thursday of last week for assaulting law enforcement officers with a weapon during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.
Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law.
An intoxicated truck driver from New York was charged in connection with an accident that took the life of a Northwest Georgia woman on Thursday night.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Saturday, May 4, 2024:
Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home is proud to present the 2024 Summer Speaker Series. Lectures will focus on the Protestant missionary groups which featured prominently in the lives of the Ridge family.
Road work that will disrupt traffic on Turner McCall Boulevard for about a week will change how some drivers access Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center’s emergency room and Family Birth Center.
AdventHealth Redmond is hosting the AngioScreen bus on Monday, May 6 from 8 am to 3 pm. The AngioScreen bus will be parked in front of the main entrance of AdventHealth Redmond. An AngioScreen is a noninvasive, 10-minute vascular screening designed to assess your risk of heart disease and stroke.
On Thursday, Georgia voters broke the 100k mark in Early Voting and Absentee totals thanks to upgraded security procedures and voter experience improvements implemented since 2018. Georgia continues to seek the appropriate balance between election security and voter access, leading the way in several first-of-its-kind pilot projects and upgrades that serve to boost voter confidence and reduce the likelihood of errors while casting a ballot.
Chattooga County Sheriffs deputies arrested a man after a traffic stop who had an outstanding warrant in Alabama. According to a report this week from the sheriff’s office, two deputies were on patrol on Highway 27 in the Trion area near Scenic Hill Road when they clocked a vehicle doing 71 in a 55 mile per hour speed zone. After performing a traffic stop, the deputies discovered that the driver’s license was suspended in January of this year for failure to appear in court. Deputies arrested James Scott Edwards and while transporting him to the Chattooga County Jail, dispatch told the deputies that Alabama authorities wanted to place a hold on Edwards due to the fact that there was a warrant for his arrest to face charges of violation of a domestic violence protection order. Edwards was charged with speeding, driving with suspended or revoked license and being a fugitive from justice and was booked into the Chattooga County Jail on April 23rd.