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Good news though, Monday night a Haitian man was found trapped in the wreckage of a market where he sold rice.

Local motorists were pleasantly surprised Tuesday to find a crew from the Georgia Department of Transportation improving the pavement markings in Newnan's "S" curve intersection that leads both into and away from downtown.

Carrollton-based First National Bank of Georgia was closed by federal regulators Friday evening and its deposits are being sold to a newly chartered bank called Community & Southern Bank, ending months of speculation about whether the bank would survive an economic recession that battered its loan portfolio and caused it to lose tens of millions of ...

Orcon Products will open a plant in Douglas, Ga., and create 50 jobs. Union City, Calif.-based Orcon Products makes seaming tape for aerospace and carpet applications.

Two days after an earthquake leveled the hotel where college student Courtney Hayes was staying in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, her university notified relatives that she and two other students had been found and would be coming home.

Relatives of a Southeast Georgia college student missing in Haiti said Sunday night they have no confirmation of news reports that her body had been found.

The college student was on a mission trip to Haiti when the earthquake hit an hour after she arrived.

These people were booked into the Walker County Detention Center on the following dates in July 2008.

NBC News is reporting that the body of Courtney Hayes of Douglas, Georgia was found today in Haiti.

Douglas, Georgia residents string yellow ribbons around trees, waiting for news about Courtney Hayes.

At 1:11 a.m. in the 2900 block of North Ashley Street, police arrested Kenneth Neilly, 21, of Valdosta, on charges of obstructing a law enforcement officer, other offenses not covered and warrant arrest, according to reports.

Douglas residents are stringing yellow ribbons around trees as they await news about Courtney Hayes, a Douglas native who remains missing since an earthquake struck Haiti on Jan.

A college student from Georgia who was missing in Haiti has been found alive. Courtney Hayes, 23, from downstate Douglas, Ga., is on her way to being reunited with her family.

Courtney Hayes had just arrived in Haiti on a college mission trip when the earthquake hit.

Tempers are growing short in Haiti , and more than 300 American soldiers are now there to help provide security and to get supplies to survivors amid reports of looting in Haiti's capital.

Her family and friends got the call around 9AM after 40 hours of uncertainty. A group of 12 students went down to Haiti to do some volunteer work for one week.

Information left by an anonymous tipster could be the key to identifying "Baby Jane Doe," a 3-year-old girl whose body was found 21 years ago encased in concrete inside a footlocker and left in woods near Waycross.

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, ...

Revisions to the city ordinance governing the operation of group homes were adopted Tuesday by Newnan City Council.

Adel, Georgia, - On Monday, December 14, 2009, at approximately 9:01 p.m., Cook County 911 received a call in reference to a shooting inside the Quick Stop, formerly the Holiday Market, located at 413 S. Hutchinson Ave., in Adel Georgia.