Local/State News

The FAA has proposed a fine for the Gainesville man who ran down an up-escalator at Atlanta's airport, leading officials to ground flights and evacuate up to 10,000 people.

About a thousand gallons of wastewater leaked into Gainesville's Longwood Park Creek after heavy rain "washed out" a sewer line Sunday.

Local, state, and national water experts are expected to gather in Cumming January 18 for a roundtable discussion sponsored by Georgia Representative John Linder.

Disclosure reports filed Tuesday show Mike Beatty of Jefferson had raised about $162,500 for his run at lieutenant governor.

Nearly 12 years after his last announced retirement, Gainesville City Manager Carlyle Cox is planning his second retirement.

A standing-room-only crowd turned out Monday night for a meeting in Cumming dealing with issues facing Lake Lanier.

A West Hall Middle School student won the Hall County Spelling Bee Tuesday.

A Gainesville flight instructor says he'll do things a bit differently because of the incident in Tampa in which a student pilot crashed a plane into a skyscraper.

A Blairsville man was killed in a one car accident near Valdosta over the weekend.

A 57 year old Toccoa woman was killed Monday when the car she was in overturned on Rock Quarry Road.