Hall County News

A 45-year-old McDonough man was found dead in his boat Wednesday afternoon at Lake Lanier.

A preliminary investigation by Hall County Fire Services shows that a deck that collapsed late Sunday at 6585 Tara Trail in Lula, injuring two people, wasn't secured properly to the home.

Georgia's sex-offender registry law should be struck down as unconstitutional because it makes being homeless a crime, a lawyer told the state's highest court on Monday.

A 32-year-old Gainesville man remained in critical condition at last check following a fight on Bolman Road in South Hall Sunday morning.

Some couples in the Gainesville-Hall County area will have access to Healthy Marriage training thanks to grant from the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.

The holiday weekend started off deadly across the state - with six people killed in traffic accidents and one person drowning - but was relatively quiet in Hall County.

Hall County Animal Control picked up two dogs owned by the same man whose dog was killed by sheriff's deputies June 23 after they attacked and bit a man Friday afternoon.

The Lula Post Office has been renamed for a fallen soldier from Georgia. At a ceremony Thursday, the postal facility in Hall County now bears the name of Army Private First Class Johnathon Millican.

Hall County commissioners Thursday approved a 2009 budget with less millage and no tax increase, but some citizens were not happy.

It has become an annual ritual: The White House tries to balance the federal budget by cutting Medicare payments to doctors, and at the last minute, Congress manages to get the cuts rescinded.

Police were investigating a death at a Hall County marina Wednesday, July 2, 2008.

A man threatening suicide shot at deputies with the Hall County Sheriff's Office Wednesday in Lula.

The Hall County Sheriff's Office is investigating a body found aboard a boat at the Holiday Marina in Buford.

Gainesville and Hall County are the exception rather than the rule when it comes to a new state law that requires use of a federal database on aliens.

Northeastern Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judges Kathlene Gosselin and Bonnie Chessher Oliver were both assured four more years on the bench, as qualifying closed today without either facing opposition.

Frank Reeves' bullet-wounded dog Leonard spent Tuesday night in a Murrayville animal hospital courtesy of the Hall County Sheriff's Office.

Authorities say a 4-year-old Clermont boy was flown to Grady Memorial Hospital Monday after burning himself with a lighter.

It looks like Hall County schools will meet the standards of "adequate yearly progress" for the first time since the federal No Child Left Behind Act began, educators said.

Some days it was freezing cold outside the blankets. Other days, students just might not have felt so good.

Shelbie Dean, left, talks with Stephanie Stringer from the Georgia Department of Labor during a job fair Wednesday at the Georgia Mountains Center.