B.J. Williams Recent Articles by B.J. WilliamsTypically, Jaemor Farms in East Hall County is known for its fall celebrations, but Sunday the family started a new spring tradition...a community-wide Easter egg hunt. Even as Georgia continues to struggle with high unemployment, one Atlanta-based company is having a hard time hiring engineers, technicians and other workers even at six-figure salaries. None of them won the record-smashing jackpot, but a handful of Georgians are still quite a bit richer after Friday night's Mega Millions lottery drawing. Hall County and Gainesville residents who use the county's public transit system will have a chance to speak out on a proposed fare increase at two public hearings in April. Lottery ticket-holders in Illinois, Kansas and Maryland each selected the winning numbers for the world record-breaking $640 million Mega Millions jackpot, lottery officials said early Saturday. Lottery officials say they are increasing the MegaMillions lottery jackpot to $640 million, raising what was already a world-record prize. The sheriff of Forsyth County is the object of some damaging TV and newspaper reports, but Ted Paxton says "petty politics" is behind it all. Georgia transportation officials say they plan to erect 15 signs in the Statham area directing some trucks away from a railroad intersection where trucks have repeatedly become stuck on the steep grade. A vote today by the Supreme Court on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will go a long way toward determining its fate but still may not be the final word. There wasn't any money talk, but leaders from various Gainesville City departments cast a vision for the upcoming year for Gainesville City Council members at preliminary budget hearings Thursday morning. The state labor department released preliminary unemployment numbers for February Thursday morning and the rate for the Georgia Mountains region dropped to 8.1-percent Georgia lawmakers are bringing a quick end to this year's legislative session, as they wrap up an agenda focused on job creation and social issues. The Army has filed murder charges against four soldiers in the shooting deaths of an ex-soldier who had been part of their brigade and his girlfriend A JetBlue captain who yelled about a bomb and urged passengers to pray on a Las Vegas-bound flight has been suspended, the airline said Wednesday. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is drastically reorganizing his cash-strapped campaign to focus on low-cost social media and an effort to cajole delegates to back him over front-runner Mitt Romney. Defense lawyers for a man accused of gunning down an Athens-Clarke County police officer a year ago have asked the judge presiding over the case to step down. Authorities say similarities in four separate attempts to entice or capture teens and younger children in Gwinnett County have led police to believe the same man could be behind them. A man whose own son served two tours of duty in the Middle East has organized a fishing tournament to help the family of a Gainesville Marine severely injured in a bomb blast overseas. In an effort to curb prescription drug abuse in the county, the Forsyth County Sheriff's Department has installed a drug drop box, or take-back, box in the county. The national average for a price of gasoline Monday is $3.89, almost 10 cents away from $4 a gallon after increasing 6 cents from last week. 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 | Next |
  
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