B.J. Williams

A teenage mother from Gainesville will spend eight years in prison for binding her toddler's hands and feet and taping his mouth, leaving him in the floorboard of her vehicle for hours.

Gwinnett County authorities have now charged a 15-year-old boy as an adult in the strangling death of his mother at a Norcross apartment complex.

At its 2017 annual meeting in Athens, the Council of Superior Court Judges awarded Hall County Superior Court Judge Jason Deal the sixth annual Emory Findley Award for "Outstanding Judicial Service."

Drug agents with the Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office and the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office (ARDEO) seized almost a pound of methampetamine during a search of a mobile home in Lumpkin County Monday.

Six accounting students at the University of North Georgia's (UNG) Dahlonega Campus are providing a public service through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, which enables them to file taxes for low-income community members for free.

Brenau University has announced a successor for Dr. Nancy Krippel, who will retire effective July 1, as the provost and vice president of academic affairs.

After county engineers found some problems with a piece of property on Harrison Drive that was supposed to be home to new community park, Hall County commissioners have gone back to the drawing board.

An Elberton woman was killed in a Friday night accident when she lost control of her vehicle on an Athens roadway.

Increased U.S. crude oil production and lower gasoline demand has kept downward pressure on the national average price at the pump, which has fallen for 20 consecutive days.

There are still some financial pieces of the puzzle to put together, but if all goes as planned, the renovation for the Hall County Library System's main branch in downtown Gainesville could get underway as soon as next year.