B.J. Williams![]() Recent Articles by B.J. WilliamsPresident Barack Obama's health care overhaul is front and center at the Supreme Court for three days of hearings to determine the fate of a law aimed at extending health insurance to more than 30 million Americans. Syracuse's long season of off-court issues ended one win short of the Final Four. Rick Santorum won the Louisiana Republican presidential primary Saturday, beating front-runner Mitt Romney in yet another conservative Southern state. Residents were allowed back home, hours after about 25 homes were evacuated following a gas main break in Cornelia Friday morning. The Krystal Company (Krystal) has announced the sale of the 80-year-old hamburger chain to Argonne Capital Group, LLC, a private investment firm based in Atlanta, Ga., for an undisclosed amount. A suburban Atlanta high school student says in a federal lawsuit that administrators removed him as student body president after he promoted changes aimed at making the prom more inclusive to gay students. Brenau University President Ed Schrader asked area business leaders Thursday afternoon to make Gainesville the type of city that will support students that will attend the university's new downtown medical campus. In the next five to seven years, the city of Lavonia is expecting some big growth in the area, so city officials are acting now to make sure they have enough water to accomodate that growth. Gwinnett County police think they know who is responsible for at least two in a series of rapes and robberies in the county years ago. State labor officials say Georgia's jobless rate has dropped to a three-year low. While it appears the city of Gainesville has offered Hall County $7.2 million for the old county jail, the county isn't saying much about that offer. Mitt Romney has easily won the Illinois Republican primary over rival Rick Santorum. Community Services Center Director Phillippa Lewis-Moss spokes at length to Hall County commissioners Tuesday, asking them to save county transportation services. Milton Martin Toyota is a recipient of the 2011 Toyota President’s Award, the highest honor a dealership can receive from Toyota. The first of three scoping meetings for the Glades Reservoir project in northern Hall County will be held Tuesday at Gainesville State College. Authorities are looking for the man who held up the Regions Bank branch on Tugalo Street in Toccoa around 11:40 Monday morning. Police are continuing their search for suspects after someone broke into the offices of a group that has been fighting anti-abortion bills in the Georgia Legislature. A woman was killed Sunday afternoon in a collision between a car and a motorcycle on Georgia 400 in Dawson County. Lessie Smithgall, Elton Maddox and the late John Jacobs, Jr. will be inducted in the Northeast Business Hall of Fame in April. The man accused of killing his sister at a Buford apartment complex earlier this month apparently confessed the crime in a letter written to his son. 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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