Poet and author Maya Angelou has ended a decade-long stalemate over a slavery monument by adding a single line to her quotation describing the brutal conditions aboard slave ships.
Walker County officials have received $214,397 from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, the first payment of the $2.9 million the Legislature approved for expenses involved in the Tri-State Crematory recovery.
Governor Barnes' $8.6 billion statewide transportation program got started Thursday when the state Department of Transportation board approved an $822 million bond sale for this summer.
When Tom Nevers needs fuel for his converted 1992 diesel school bus, he's not looking for the nearest gas station. Instead, he heads for the nearest deep fryer.
A judge set bond Thursday for a Sumter County woman charged with murder in the 1997 death of her 16-year-old son, who was paralyzed from the waist down.
The government said Thurdsday that smoking by high-school students has dropped to its lowest level in a decade, crediting steep cigarette taxes and school programs that discourage kids from picking up the habit.
Police said Thursday that a soldier from Fort Stewart, Georgia, has been arrested on charges of planting an explosive device on a dirt road in northeastern Florida.
