Commerce News

Peebles department store plans to put a store in Calhoun's Indian Hills Shopping Center by the fall.

A Greenville, S.C. man is behind bars in Banks County after he robbed a Banks County bank Thursday and led police on a high-speed chase through Commerce and along U.S. Highway 441 to the Clarke County line.

Senior pictures for the Class of 2010 at Effingham County High School will be taken from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. July 20-24. To be in the yearbook, students must have their photos taken at this time.

A month after a 6-year-old boy was allegedly killed by his grandfather during an argument over a watermelon, a review of his state child welfare records raises questions about whether he should have been placed in his grandparents' home.

When a revenue shortfall nearly forced the Athens-Clarke government to cancel Athens' annual July Fourth fireworks show at Bishop Park, smalltown fireworks organizers across the area kind of shook their heads at the aerial display's $10,000 price tag.

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun's staff will host a series of "Congress on the Square" meetings next month in counties in the 10th Congressional District.

A refrigeration component manufacturer says it is hiring 60 new employees for a new production line.

Hansen Technologies, a refrigeration component manufacturer, is hiring 60 new employees to man a new production line in Commerce.

Instead of losing jobs, Jackson County will be gaining positions after a manufacturing plant is closed.

From infancy, people were worried about Michael Levigne. The 6-year-old boy, who apparently was shot and killed by his grandfather June 7, left behind a caring grandmother, a little brother, a loving but unstable father, a distant birth mother, a collection of well-loved Thomas the Tank Engine toys and a 1,200-page Department of Family and Children ...

A Tennessee hospital management firm recently moved to purchase cash-strapped BJC Medical Center in Commerce.

A Colbert brother and sister died in a fire and explosion apparently fueled by gunpowder early Sunday morning near Colbert Elementary School.

Commerce's City Lights music festival always is held the last weekend of June - even if it means competing with a certain other music festival 15 miles south of town.

Some trees were toppled as stormy weather moved across northeast Georgia overnight.

A Jackson County sheriff's deputy was injured Wednesday morning after a pickup truck pulled out in front of him on U.S. Highway 441 in Commerce, according to a radio operator with the Georgia State Patrol's Athens post.

How to help A charitable fund for the family of slain 6-year-old Michael Levigne has been set up through First United Methodist Church.

A crash on the Commerce bypass killed a Hall County man and left two others with serious injuries.

One person was killed and two others were injured in an accident on U.S. Highway 441 in Commerce Monday morning.

Friends have established the 'Michael Levigne Memorial Fund' at Community Bank and Trust in Commerce.

Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel touted her ability as a crisis solver as she campaigned for governor during a Thursday meeting of the Greater Columbia County Republican Women.