B.J. Williams![]() Recent Articles by B.J. WilliamsIn celebration of National Drinking Water Week, the Gainesville Public Utilities Department has scheduled an Open House at the Riverside water treatment plant for Friday, May 10. A Republican Georgia senator won a victory over the president Monday on the golf course. Authorities say recent rains have sent bacteria levels soaring in the Chattahoochee River. Three women, missing for ten years, have been found safe in Ohio. Georgia Department of Natural Resources Deputy Commissioner Homer Bryson said Monday the state will continue to provide law enforcement for state parks, despite information that was shared at a meeting in Habersham County last week. The U.S. Drought Monitor in its last report on April 30 indicated only a very small area of Georgia close to the coast remained abnormally dry. By Thursday, when the next map is posted, even that dry spot should be erased. An organization composed of Congressional Medal of Honor recipients traveled to Newtown on Monday to honor the six educators killed in the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Democratic National Committee says NBA veteran Jason Collins will headline its annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender gala. Giulio Andreotti was one of postwar Italy's most powerful men: He helped draft the country's constitution after World War II, served as its premier seven times and spent 60 years in parliament. If you look at the projects on the docket for the state Department of Transportation, then you'll see that plenty of roadwork is planned across northeast Georgia in the coming months. Attention online shoppers: The days of tax-free shopping on the Internet may soon end for many of you. Georgia's highest court has upheld a Georgia statute that allows trees to be chopped down under certain circumstances so that billboard companies can advertise along highways. When one of the nine women in his limousine complained about smoke, Orville Brown pulled to the side of a San Francisco Bay bridge to check. As he got out, the back of the vehicle became engulfed in flames. A Pakistani official says a bomb blast has killed at least 14 people at an election campaign rally of a pro-Taliban party in the country's northwest. Atlanta police are investigating after a CNN anchor reported that her iPhone was snatched from her hand as she strolled down a street in the city's midtown section. Gas prices started to fluctuate last week after the cost for a barrel of oil jumped above $90 and has held steady in that price range. This weekend's Railroad Days Festival marks 37 years the small town of Lula has held the event in the downtown historic district and train yard. More than two-dozen counties in north Georgia are under a flood watch as storms approach the state. The Georgia State Patrol said a 42-year-old Murrayville man was killed in a single vehicle crash in north Hall County, although they said they can't pinpoint the exact time of the accident. A Hall County man will go before the Supreme Court of Georgia Tuesday to appeal a Georgia Court of Appeals decision that upholds a prison sentence he received as a repeat drug offender. 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 | 137 | Next |
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