Mitch Clarke

Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday the state’s economy is continuing to grow and should be able to handle a downturn, should one occur.

Northeast Georgians remember the moon landing

A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time, uniting people around the globe in a way not seen before or since.

Five Gainesville teens were arrested Wednesday for a series of crimes related to the incident in which a Hall County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

I vividly remember that Sunday night, 50 years ago Saturday. It was well past a young boy’s bedtime. But my parents, realizing the significance of what was about to happen 250,000 miles from our living room, woke me up.

Hall County District Attorney Lee Darragh said Thursday he won’t be able to seek the death penalty against the four teenagers accused in the death of Deputy Nicolas Blane Dixon because the U.S. Supreme Court won’t allow it.

Nicolas Blane Dixon was remembered Thursday as a man who was always smiling, who adored his wife and children and who was honored to represent his community as a Hall County sheriff’s deputy.

The funeral of Deputy Nicolas Blane Dixon, who was killed in the line of duty on Sunday, is being held at Free Chapel on McEver Road

The four teenagers arrested in connection with the death of Hall County Deputy Nicolas Blaine Dixon will likely face gang-related charges, Sheriff Gerald Couch said Tuesday morning.

Can it really have been 25 years ago? It sometimes seems like yesterday when the Great Flood of 1994 swallowed a large swatch of Georgia, including Macon, where I lived at the time.