Forsyth News

After little more than a month under new ownership, the Gainesville branch of the State Bank and Trust Co.

A fugitive charged with robbing a Brunswick bank last month was captured by federal marshals in Macon on Friday.

Forsyth police say they've arrested a man in connection with a bank robbery earlier this week.

The Monroe County Reporter is reporting that serial bank robber Don Wayne Johnson, Jr.

This week's My Teacher's Tops winner comes from Forsyth from Bank Stephens Middle School.

Forsyth Police say someone robbed the Piedmont Bank Monday. Detective David Asbell with the Forsyth Police Department says a man entered the bank around 4:45 p.m. and handed a teller a written note demanding money.

An advance payment of $1.3 million to a Forsyth, Ga., company for police equipment was one of the most severe deficiencies found in an audit of the Columbus Consolidated Government, officials said.

Governor Sonny Perdue, state officials and alumni celebrated the relocation of Georgia's Corrections Academy to the Tift College campus in Forsyth on Friday.

A flood watch has been issued for portions of north and all of central Georgia, including parts of northeast Georgia.

Between Saturday, Jan. 9, and Friday, Jan. 15, the Barnesville police department made seven arrests: Marquel Braswell, 589 Macon Rd., Reynolds, disorderly conduct; A Damian Davis, 500 Cabiness Rd., Forsyth, possession of marijuana; Kendrick Davis, 175 Bentley Dr., Forsyth, possession of marijuana; Larry Lewis, 130 N. Frontage Rd., Forsyth, ...

Following an extensive investigation, Canton and Cherokee fire officials determined that the Dec.

Georgia State Patrol post 44 in Forsyth investigated 13 traffic crashes in Lamar County during December.

State Rep. Jim Cole of Forsyth won't be Georgia's next secretary of state after all.

A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for a large portion of north and central Georgia... including all of northeast Georgia.

Snowflakes fell lightly across Georgia Thursday afternoon, and officials shuttered school systems, pretreated roads and hunkered down for a front expected to drop as much as three inches in the northernmost parts of the state.

The end of a long era at Mercer and a fairly short one in state government are expected to be announced at a news conference this afternoon at the school.

Republican Rep. Jim Cole, a three-term lawmaker from Forsyth in Middle Georgia, will be picked by Gov.

As is tradition, today's the day most of us will resolve to be better people and do better things in 2010.

A Winter Weather Advisory has been posted for parts of northeast Georgia. The full text of it reads as follows: ...LIGHT WINTRY PRECIPITATION EXPECTED ACROSS PARTS OF THE WESTERN CAROLINAS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING.

A Grand Prix Street man called Forsyth deputies Dec. 10 after beating a burglar unconscious with a pipe in his basement.