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" asked me to rate the scale of pain. I said, 'It's 100, it's 1,000. It's gone,'" recalls Brenda Walker, an Alpharetta, Ga., woman whose left calf was ravaged by necrotizing fasciitis, commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria, six years ago.

With those words, Andy Copeland celebrated -- and invited thousands who have followed his family's struggles thanks to his online posts to join him -- a major milestone for his daughter Aimee, as she gamely battles a potentially deadly flesh-eating bacteria.

Blood donors turned out in such huge numbers for a May 15 drive for Aimee Copeland at the University of West Georgia that many had to be turned away.

Cliff Williams/Times-Georgian Chapel Hill graduates Lauren Lambert, left, and Justin McAllister take an Iphone photograph before Commencement Exercises at the University of West Georgia Friday.

CARROLLTON, Ga -- A Georgia soldier's first trip home in almost a year was a special one as she paid a surprise visit to her little sister's high school graduation.

Friends of Aimee Copeland, the young University of West Georgia student battling a flesh-eating disease in an Augusta hospital, have announced a Coweta County blood drive in her honor.

Six more candidates qualified Monday for the July 31 primary in Carroll County, bringing the list to 22.

The Carroll County jobless rate continues on a downward trend, dropping to 9.4 percent in April, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by Georgia Department of Labor.

Dr. Tina McKay, left, of Healthy Life Chiropractic, accepts the Small Business of the Year Award at Tuesday's awards meeting hosted by the Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce.

A Carrollton laboratory has found that the Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria, the type that caused the flesh-eating bacterial illness in University of West Georgia graduate student Aimee Copeland, is present in normal levels in the Little Tallapoosa River.

SPECIAL TO THE TELEGRAPH Joseph Johnson, former curator of the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, died Monday afternoon at age 57.

DUNWOODY, Ga. -- A Dunwoody wife and mother wants the family of Aimee Copeland to see how she recovered from surgeries to amputate her hands and feet.

For all but three Upson-Lee High School students, the last day of school is Friday, May 25.

Percy von Lipinski stood on a chair as he decorated his family's Christmas tree.

Timothy Wray shows his moves Tuesday night as the seniors of Villa Rica High School have a graduation night "dance battle" at The Coliseum at the University of West Georgia.

Parents in DeKalb County weighed in Tuesday on the proposed school budget for next year.

Gingrich Group LLC , a consulting firm whose previous endorsement of an individual health insurance mandate exposed Gingrich to charges of hypocrisy, filed for bankruptcy in April after reporting between $1 million and $10 million in unpaid debts.

The father of a 24-year-old Georgia woman fighting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection says that his daughter has been taken off the ventilator and is now breathing "completely on her own," according to a blog post Sunday night.

About a year ago, Denise Askin-Pate found herself in what she calls a "unique situation." When Mike Huckeba's District 4 seat on the Carroll County Board of Education became available after Mike Huckeba's resigning, she applied because she wanted to make a difference.

A 24 year-old contracted a rare case of necrotizing fasciitis after a zip line accident in Georgia on May 1. Aeromonas hydrophila can be found in freshwater and brackish water environments, but is a rare way of contracting necrotizing fasciitis.