Jefferson County News

A Jefferson County man is in jail accused of vehicular homicide. The Jefferson County Sheriffa s Office says Friday night a deputy tried to stop a car that was driving erratically outside of Louisville.

After 12 years of serving as chief tax appraiser of McDuffie County, Katherine Perry is leaving for a similar position in neighboring Jefferson County.

Brad Williams attracted the attention of hundreds of motorists as he went through portions of McDuffie and Warren counties in his wheelchair last Sunday.

A Hephzibah woman is expected to stand trial soon on murder charges in McDuffie County Superior Court stemming from the 2006 vehicular homicide of a woman who was raised in Thomson.

A body found Tuesday night in the woods near the Ohio River was a white man in his 60s, Jefferson County Deputy Coroner Eddie Robinson said.

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.

Jefferson County's coroner is retiring amid some controversy before his term ends.

FRANKFORT, Ky., Sept. 30 a 'The Jefferson County Commission on Racial Fairness is surveying those who use the Jefferson County judicial system about access and fairness in the system.

Ernest C. Shaffer, who was convicted of first degree sodomy that involved a seven-year-old girl following a two-day jury trial in Adair Circuit Court in July, was formally sentenced to life in prison by Circuit Judge James Weddle Tuesday afternoon.

Laney High School students are getting some new reading material. The school just received books donated from the Library of Congress.

Bribery case will go to district attorney The Richmond County Sheriff's Office has finished its investigation of an alleged bribery scheme involving a proposed downtown trade, exhibit and event center, according to Sheriff Ronnie Strength.

Louisville kids are learning how to save lives. JCPS has teamed up with the American Heart Association and EMS to introduce a CPR program to local 7th graders.

I believe in free association. Not all Americans agree with me : A group of Louisville educators has sued three teachers unions, saying the groups force members to stay on union rolls and pay dues despite attempts to leave the labor organizations... Teachers employed in Jefferson County are automatically enrolled as union members and pay union dues ...

A Jefferson County jury has found David Jason Stinson not guilty on charges of reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of 15-year-old Max Gilpin, one of his players at Pleasure Ridge Park High School.

Some district attorneys in Georgia don't want defendants awaiting death penalty trials to get visits in jail from convicted murderers.

Louisville police say two Jefferson County public school buses were involved in a collision with a TARC bus Tuesday morning.

Jury selection in the reckless homicide and wanton endangerment trial of former Pleasure Ridge Park football coach Jason Stinson begins Monday afternoon - if Jefferson Circuit Judge Susan Schultz Gibson decides not to dismiss the case.

Jefferson County Public School officials are apologizing to a Louisville family after their child was left on a hot bus for 2 hours.

A registered sex offender is accused of another sex crime against a 16-year-old girl.

A former drifter accused of killing two high school sweethearts nearly 30 years ago told detectives he had sex with the woman and then watched a group of men stomp the couple to death, according to prosecutors.