Georgia News

A Georgia Department of Corrections employee who most recently held positions at Phillips Transitional Center in Buford and Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto begins a new assignment today (July 1) as warden of Whitworth Women’s Facility in Hartwell.

Suwanee City Council voted this week to overhaul the city's website, at a cost of $34,540.

A woman wanted in connection with a $111,000 methamphetamine trafficking ring operating in multiple Northeast Georgia counties was arrested Friday.

24 inmates and a guard suffered minor injuries when the prison transport bus they were on was involved in a crash on I-85 in the Buford area.

North Carolina officials announced Friday they found no probable cause for criminal charges against the Habersham County sheriff’s deputy involved in an officer-involved shooting in Macon County, N.C., earlier this year.

Three men and a woman face charges in Winder in connection to a string of 20 BB gun shootings that did more than $10,000 damage to local businesses and vehicles.

Residents got a chance Thursday to meet local law enforcement face to face, and perhaps enjoy a bite to eat as well in South Hall County.

A woman who served time in federal prison for two previous bank robberies now faces charges for a June 19 bank robbery at Banks Crossing and one in Maryland.

Suwanee City Council has given its approval to the city's Fiscal Year 2018 budget, which projects a millage rate of 4.93 mills, the same as the previous fiscal year.

A former South Carolina police chief was arrested in Franklin County over the weekend, charged with a bank robbery in Simpsonville.