Chattahoochee News

With a baby on life support, suspicions that a pregnant woman received negligent care at Florida State Hospital have cost at least two employees their jobs and led to a criminal investigation and a possible lawsuit against the state.

The award, which is one of nine national awards the coalition gives, will be presented during Great Outdoors Week 2012 in Washington D.C. A grand opening event for the completion of the project was May 23 in Chattahoochee.

Thanks in large part to a proposal to dam a tributary upstream of Lake Lanier, the Chattahoochee River has landed on a top 10 list of endangered rivers in the country today.

An environmental group has placed the Chattahoochee River on its list of the nation's ten most endangered waterways.

Those who know the Chattahoochee best say they see it every year; people throwing caution to wind and winding up in trouble on the river.

The woman, 24-year-old Christina Lee Braxton,reportedly walked away from her home on Brent Street in Chattahoochee on the evening of May 7. Police say that she was emotionally upset when she left her home, and is without her necessary medication.

Pinpoint Weather Forecast After a stormy Sunday, more showers/t-storms will be around Monday afternoon.

Chattahoochee High School's Mercedes Pressley has signed a National Letter of Intent to play volleyball at the University of West Georgia, an NCAA Division II school, where she plans to major in biology with a minor in English literature.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has instituted drought operations in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint basin, meaning 5,000 cubic feet per second of water must be sent through Jim Woodruff Dam at the Apilachicola River to protect endangered species of sturgeon and mussel.

A Jackson County man fishing in the Apalachicola River near Chattahoochee in 1982 landed the strangest catfish he had ever seen.

Gwinnett County firefighters helped rescue two people and a dog who were stranded on an island in the Chattahoochee River.