B.J. Williams

Northeast Judicial Circuit District Attorney Lee Darragh has named a Supervising Assistant District Attorny for the Dawson County office.

More than 200 people attended the Annual Party Hearty Zumba event this past Saturday, a fundraiser for the American Heart Association, created by a Lakeview Academy senior.

No doubt there's been plenty of talk about guns in church, so that might have been what piqued the interest of an Atlanta TV station that showed up Sunday night for an event at Blackshear Place Baptist Church in south Hall County.

Organizers of the Redneck Games, a Georgia festival that includes competitions such as toilet seat horseshoes and mud pit belly flops, say this summer's event is being canceled.

A major winter storm brought blizzard conditions to parts of the central Plains Monday, forcing the closure of highways in the Oklahoma Panhandle and sending public works crews scrambling for salt and sand anew just days after record amounts of snow blanketed the region.

The work release inmate program in Hall County is being realigned, a move Sheriff Gerald Couch says will save the county money and free some officers for other duty.

Eric Rudolph, serving a life sentence for bombings that killed two people in Alabama and Georgia in the 1990s, has published his autobiography from prison with the help of his brother.

"Argo" won best picture as expected, along with two other prizes. But "Life of Pi" won the most awards with four, including a surprise win for director Ang Lee.

Boating safety was a key component in Governor Nathan Deal's State of the State address last month; this week, lawmakers representing areas around Lake Lanier introduced the legislation the governor has wanted.

University of Georgia Football Coach Mark Richt was the inaugural speaker Friday for a series of breakfast meetings at Eagle Ranch Children's Home.