Lavonia News

A grand jury has ruled that an officer-involved shooting in which a Lavonia man was killed was justified.

The officers who shot and killed a Georgia pastor in a botched drug sting three months ago were cleared Friday.

The Stephens County Grand Jury returned a presentment Friday saying that the use of deadly force by Georgia Bureau of Investigation officers who shot and killed a Lavonia minister in September was legally justified.

The Stephens County Hospital Authority will appeal the state Department of Community Health's decision to allow the Ty Cobb Healthcare System to build a new hospital in Lavonia.

The state banned seven Atlanta and Fulton County educators Thursday from its public schools for as much as a year in the wake of a statewide test cheating scandal first reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution a year ago.

A north Georgia prosecutor says he will let a grand jury decide if there will be criminal charges brought against undercover drug officers involved in the killing of a Baptist minister outside a Toccoa convenience store.

A new hospital is coming to Franklin County, despite a nearby competitor's efforts to halt it.

Rev. Ayers on a mission trip to Africa. TOCCOA - The GBI has completed it's investigation into the police shooting of a northeast Georgia pastor, now two special prosecutors will decide what happens next.

Brad Williams attracted the attention of hundreds of motorists as he went through portions of McDuffie and Warren counties in his wheelchair last Sunday.

Michael Newton, assistant manager at the Columbia Farms chicken feed mill in Comer, talks about the direct access the new mill has to the railroads.

Officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said they are still waiting on crime lab results in the case of Jonathan Ayers, the Lavonia pastor shot and killed by Stephens County drug agents two weeks ago.

There were new details Monday in the shooting of a Georgia pastor who was killed by police in a botched drug sting.

He wanted to be serving the Lord on the day he died. And friends and family said this weekend they believe that's what The Rev.

Members of a Southern Baptist church in Northeast Georgia want answers about the police-shooting death of their 29-year-old pastor in a drug-sting operation gone wrong.

Officials with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday that they were investigating the death of a Lavonia minister.

Before he died Wednesday, with bullet wounds to his liver, pastor Jonathan Ayers asked paramedics who shot him.

A northeast Georgia pastor has died after being shot by agents from a multi-county drug task force.

A minister at a Lavonia church has died after being shot by drug agents in Toccoa but there are questions about the circumstances surrounding the incident.

A poultry feed manufacturer plans to begin production two weeks ahead of schedule at a new plant that towers over Georgia Highway 72 near Comer and represents the first significant industrial project in Madison County in more than 20 years.

The Gospel Tabernacle, once James Drake's hay barn, now hosts monthly gospel shows.