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Washington, Georgia invites everyone to come there this weekend for their annual July 4th Parade and Fireworks Show.

Thanks to discord in Washington, Georgia may get a reprieve for more than $80 million in federal earmarks that it won years ago for commuter rail.

Implementation of Obama's stimulus bill is largely in the hands of the state governments.

Hunter Harrison doesn't normally spend a great deal of time shooting targets with his bow and arrows.

Crews in Wilkes County were busy with an explosive situation Wednesday. The bomb squad detonated an explosive device at a home on Church Street in Tignall.

Georgia's defense minister is warning about Russia's military buildup as he meets with Obama administration officials in Washington this week.

A former Washington Police Department secretary is accused of embezzling more than $40,000. Tammy Land is charged with theft by taking.

Washington, Ga.- A secretary with Washington Police is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the department.

PLANE FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil _ An airplane seat, a fuel slick and pieces of white debris scattered over three miles of open ocean mark the site in the mid-Atlantic where Air France Flight 447 with 228 people on board plunged to its doom, Brazil's defense minister says.

A series of steep budget cuts announced today for Georgia state parks and historic sites will affect several popular areas in the east Georgia region that includes Augusta.

Barnes, Mary Jane, 61, of Washington, D.C., formerly of Winder; 2 p.m. at Bush Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church, interment in the church cemetery; Eberhart & Son Mortuary, Winder, has charge of arrangements.

Washington state could soon have a new official name for the inland waterway that includes Puget Sound in Washington, Georgia Strait in British Columbia, Canada, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which separates the two countries.

Metro Atlantans do it in showers, cars, gardens and churches. They pray when they get up or go to bed and in between, and favorite places are as varied as each person's day.

The parties discussed implementation of 'Millennium Challenges' Programs in Armenia.

An organizational meeting to create a Sons of the American Revolution chapter in the city of Washington will be held at 7 p.m. May 11 in the Mary Willis Library, 204 E. Liberty St., Washington.

* Firefighters responded to an emergency medical services call at 9:41 a.m. April 22 at 25 E. Washington and assisted police or other governmental agency at 8:46 p.m. * Firefighters responded to a call dispatched and canceled en route at 7:55 a.m. April 23 at South Capitol and East Court streets; a forest, woods or wildland fire at 1:25 p.m. at ...

Jurors in a Forsyth County courtroom know all about llama drama. For five days this week, they heard testimony in a breach-of-contract lawsuit over the sale of two llamas by Kenneth and Katherine Smiley, owners of the well-known llama farm, Dixie Doodle, in Cumming.

Washington, GA - Do you want to know what everyday life was like in the rural American South at the turn of the 20th century? Can you imagine life before automobiles, paved streets and town curfews? Now is your chance to hear first hand accounts of life lived in a bygone era with the recently produced documentary A Narrative of Wilkes County, ...

Washington's town square is home to an art gallery, shops, restaurants and a hotel.

The Maxxis General GNCC ATV race on Racer TV will debut on Saturday, April 18, 2009 on the Versus Network at 2:30 p.m. EST.