Federal officials say they plan to look into rules covering how outfitters do business along the Chattahoochee River after a 9-year-old girl's drowning last week.
A northeast Georgia man who died after jumping 50 feet from a train trestle into a lake near the Georgia-South Carolina line has been identified as 41-year-old Timothy Scott Fleming of Elberton.
A second town hall meeting on the proposed Hall County budget, its $11.5 million dollar shortfall and talk of a tax increase has been scheduled Saturday.
A Hoschton businessman has been named Contractor of the Year by the Georgia Plumbing and Mechanical Association. Scott Roberts of Roberts Plumbing Inc. picked up the award at the group's annual meeting recently.
An education nonprofit says Georgia's law giving tax breaks to people who donate to nonprofits designed to pay for poor children to attend private schools is a ``failed experiment.''
The swollen Missouri River is threatening to inundate a small southwest Iowa town where officials are piling massive sandbags on a faltering levee to contain floodwaters that could leave the community under several feet of water.
