B.J. Williams![]() Recent Articles by B.J. WilliamsJones Cottrell, a member of the Hall County Planning Commission, has announced his intent to run for the Hall County Commission. An Athens man has been identified as the victim of a Friday night murder in Statham...the third murder this year in Barrow County. Two Gainesville residents have been arrested and charged with a burglary at a home in Buford. Authorities say other students may have been sexually assaulted by a Pickens County High School teacher, now charged in the assault of one student. Gov. Sonny Perdue is criticizing a ruling from Georgia's top lawyer that says the state must hand over $18 million in disputed sales tax revenue to local governments in the midst of a crippling state budget crunch. A former assistant Gainesville city manager is the only finalist for Forsyth County's deputy county manager. Twice on Sunday, authorities were called to the Chattahoochee River below Buford Dam to rescue boaters who had become trapped in rising water, apparently after a release from the Dam. In one instance, a Lawrenceville man drowned. While the norm has become the downsizing...or even closure...of many manufacturing plants in America, one northeast Georgia company has bucked that trend. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources says it has recovered the body of a man who fell into the Chattahoochee River when his fishing boat capsized. After two weeks spent solely on budget writing, the state legislature gets down to other business starting Monday...including review of Ava's Law. After a year of planning and improving, the city of Clarkesville has been designated a Better Hometown by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A northeast Georgia toddler is the winner of the National Beautiful Baby Search. Two Gainesville men, one of them a teenager, have been arrested and charged in connection with a burglary on Athens Highway near Smallwood Road. What at first appeared to be a traffic fatality in Jackson County has turned out to be a murder... and the victim is from Hall County. Students at Gilmer County High School got the day off from school today, but it had nothing to do with winter weather. Four vehicles, including one overturned tractor trailer, blocked traffic on I-85 northbound in Franklin County north of State Route 51. Hall County Extension Agent Billy Skaggs was named County Agent of the Year by two separate groups. More than half the states in the country haven't touched a $5 billion pot of federal stimulus funds meant to find work for welfare recipients. One child was taken to the hospital after a chain reaction accident on I-85 near Highway 20 in Buford Friday morning. A man charged with shooting to death a Fulton County police officer told authorities he did it because he didn't want to go to jail. Previous |1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | Next |
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