Local/State News

The Hall County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) now has a bomb-sniffing dog of its own, according to Sheriff Steve Cronic.

The Barrow County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) is missing some money.

United Community Banks, Inc. was named the seventh best-performing company in Georgia for 2001, according to a study by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has granted the Georgia Department of Agriculture a license to travel to Cuba, Tommy Irvin, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, announced Wednesday.

The churches of Flowery Branch united in prayer, song and scripture in the heart of town Wednesday night.

Gainesville Police are looking for two men suspected of a home invasion Wednesday during which shots were fired.

The unemployment rates in Hall and most other counties in the 13-county Georgia Moutains region are down.

U.S. poultry imports are beginning to trickle back into Russia more than a month after Russia lifted its ban on American chicken.

A Glascock County jury convicted a Hoschton man of murder Wednesday for the September shooting death of a Hall County man at a hunting camp.

A Mar-Jac official said Wednesday the poultry processer has no intentions of reapplying for annexation of its feed mill property by the city of Lula.