CLEVELAND - The White County Meth Task Force is considering taking its campaign against drug and alcohol abuse into two more counties.<br />
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The group now focuses on children exposed to drug and alcohol abuse in the home in White and Lumpkin counties.<br />
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However, the group plans to develop a pilot program which it expects to use in expanding its work into Towns and Union counties.<br />
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The task force recently met with representatives from law enforcement, health, judicial and other areas that deal with youngsters affected by drug and alcohol abuse in the home.<br />
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It was the first of a series of such meetings that are planned.<br />
Traffic crashes across Georgia over the 102-hour Christmas holiday travel period claimed the lives of 24 people... two of them in the Gainesville area.
The unemployment rate in metro Gainesville is up again, three-tenths of a percent to 6.5 percent, and it is up in each of the 10 counties in the immediate Gainesville area.
"I know these guys feel like I do, I wouldn't want to go through some of the things I went through, but I am proud I went through it," said Legion member Ray Schubert. "I'm very proud of it today."
Guilty verdicts were handed down at noon Thursday for the three young men accused in the July 7, 2019 murder of Hall County Sheriff's Deputy Blane Dixon.
The jury has announced guilty verdicts on all counts for Hector Garcia-Solis, Eric Velazquez and London Clements, including malice murder charges for Garcia-Solis and Velazquez, for the 2019 shooting death of Hall County Sheriff's Deputy Blane Dixon.
The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid fell again last week to the lowest level since the pandemic struck last year, further evidence that the job market and the broader economy are rebounding rapidly from the coronavirus recession
