Lavonia News

A man who killed himself at a gas station in Georgia is the suspect in the double-shooting in Mount Airy, authorities said today.

In just three years living part-time in a lakefront home on Lake Hartwell, Lara Kaufmann probably knows more nooks and crannies along the 962 miles of shoreline around the lake than many born and raised here.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was looking for answers on Friday in the death of a South Carolina firefighter.

Folks in Franklin County have not been sitting in long lines, waiting for hours at gas stations as many in Atlanta have, but they do check the pump handles for those plastic bags.

A Lavonia woman died Wednesday in a single-car crash in Hartwell, according to the Toccoa Post of the Georgia State Patrol.

Two men face an array of charges after they were connected to a rash of burglaries and theft at a local granite company.

For centuries, the tranquil foothills and mountains of the southeastern United States have provided the perfect setting for world-class spas.

Staff writer Hartwell Ford is closing at the beginning of October. The business is moving its operations back to Lavonia to better serve its customers, said Matthew Murdock, manager.

A Georgia judge has delayed a bond decision for the man accused of holding his family hostage for three years.

A graveside service for Mrs. Sara S. Smith, 84, of Macon, who died September 10 will be held at West View Cemetery in Monticello this Saturday, Sept.

A 23-year-old woman was killed in a one-car wreck on Interstate 85 Saturday afternoon, hours after she graduated from the University of Georgia, said Trooper David Snyder of the Georgia State Patrol's Toccoa ...

A strip club in Lavonia, Ga., at odds with the tjown's conservative residents and government, was purchased by the town for $1 million, and then intentionally burned down.

The windowless building that once housed the town's only strip club sits empty in the middle of a sprawling gravel parking lot, made all the uglier by the scars from its final party.

BEAVER CREEK Community is getting cleaned up. The owner of Beaver Creek Community mobile home park has been given 90 days by the city of Lavonia to make improvements.

Thanks to the Georgia Department of Economic Development, travelers pulling into nine of the state's visitor information centers are getting an earful.

I've been kinda laying off the One News Now scene lately, so I guess it's possible to get Christian Fatigue.

The Humane Society of the United States has blanketed Georgia over the past few months with ads promoting a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of dogfighters.

POLICE are still investigating Raymond Daniel Thurmond who was charged last week with allegedly imprisoning his wife and four children in the mobile home, above, since the family moved to the Lavonia residence ...

Submitted by Catfish on August 17, 2008 - 7:37pm. abuse crime dysfunctional families kidnapping Didn't we already go through something like this? Some crazy man in Lavonia, GA, decided 3 years ago that he was ...

Raymond Daniel Thurmond remains in jail, and police remain busy checking the past of the North Georgia man they believe held his wife and four children hostage in a mobile home for nearly three years.