Jackson County News

Puppies gladly gave kisses in exchange for attention Saturday morning at the Hall County Animal Shelter's open house in honor of its new facility, which officially opened its doors Oct.

A Jackson County toddler is expected to make a full recovery after suffering burns over 30 percent of her body.

Commerce police Cpl. William Thomas' new partner doesn't always have the best breath, and he's not much for conversation, but the pair still will look out for each other when they hit streets of Commerce this week.

Four Jackson County truck drivers face federal wire fraud charges in connection to a multi-million-dollar kickback scheme that allegedly cheated a Rome cardboard mill out of $4.8 million.

The Jackson County Republican Party has endorsed candidates in the Hoschton, Braselton and Nicholson mayoral races, according to party President Ron Johnson.

From left, Jackson County Comprehensive High School ninth-graders Kathryn Franklin, Alexis Byrne and Kristin Anderson work together Tuesday on an experiment transferring jellyfish genes into E. coli bacteria using lab equipment on loan from Athens Technical College in Sheri Koenig's class.

Burglars ransacked a Nicholson house while the owner was not living there, taking electronics valued at about $1,000, tools and the man's couch cushions, according to report filed by a Jackson County sheriff's deputy.

Jackson County sheriff's deputies are searching for the two men they believe beat up an Athens man who was found wrapped in a rug dumped along a residential street in the southern part of the county.

Description: The Humane Society of Jackson County will present the 4th annual Mimosas for Mutts fund raising event on October 17, 2009 at the Jefferson Civic Center.

Two people were killed when a single-engine antique airplane crashed Thursday in a residential neighborhood shortly after taking off from Athens-Ben Epps Airport.

A Jackson County woman who was wounded while trying to protect her 5-year-old grandson from her husband has died.

Work begins Thursday on the resurfacing of State Route 82/Athens Highway in Jackson County, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act , the federal economic stimulus program.

Find more elections coverage in our 2009 elections section. City Council District 4 Brian Mitsdarffer Age: 34 Personal: Wife, Gina, and daughter, Rayann Mitsdarffer, 5 Professional: Small business owner Government experience: None Why running: "Jefferson isn't just a city where I live, it's my home.

Jackson County sheriff's deputies have identified the man they found beaten and unconscious in front of a Scott Road home earlier this week.

Jackson County authorities are trying to figure out who beat a man and left him for dead in the southern end of the county.

Charlotte Mealor, left, and Carol Holzhalb work recently to preserve documents found in the old Jackson County Courthouse in Jefferson.

The heavy rain that soaked north Georgia has left some prisoners soggy. The downpour has forced Jackson County authorities to begin moving inmates from the county's old leaky jail into a section of a new 424-bed facility.

Some creeks and streams in Banks and Jackson counties have been overflowing today as heavy rains continue across north Georgia and there are reports of some street flooding in Gainesville.

While most of Pam Tolbert's children know her as "momma," to her son, John Richard Nash, she was always "mother." "I didn't think a thing in the world about it when he was living, but now that he's gone..." she said.

Animal advocates in Jackson County long have complained that the community doesn't have a shelter for abandoned or stray dogs and cats, and now they have a plan to change that.