Meriwether County News

The Georgia State Patrol's 953 troopers will provide a more visible presence than usual during the long holiday weekend, during which 16 traffic fatalities are predicted statewide.

Clint Eric Ozier voluntarily surrendered his forestry license at the Nov. 18 meeting of the Georgia State Board of Registration for Foresters.

A LaGrange man died Wednesday after his car left Greenville Road and overturned.

St. John Lutheran Church is once again sponsoring its annual Thanksgiving meal program for local residents in need of assistance during the holiday season.

More lane closures are planned next week on Hwy. 54 in southeast Coweta County, the Georgia Department of Transportation announced Friday.

The recent heavy rains caused flooding in some areas. They also caused delays in outdoor work projects.

Trey Wood / Daily News City of LaGrange crews remove a large tree limb which fell Tuesday afternoon at Todd Street and Truitt Avenue as rains pelted West Georgia.

West Georgia Technical College has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Education to expand an existing program that trains students in a modern industrial skill set that is in high demand.

Troup County Sheriff Donny Turner has engaged a private company to collect the county's delinquent taxes, relieving the tax commissioner's office of that responsibility.

One in a series On Hogansville City Council, incumbents Bobby Joe Frazier and Charlie Frank Martin face opposition from Derek Hay and Scott Worthy, respectively.

Within view of a large bust of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, construction has begun on The Roosevelt School at Warm Springs, a $20 million residential and vocational services facility to serve students at Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation.

Meriwether County's commissioners are set to hire a new public works director Tuesday, but Commissioner Larry Whitlock is worried the vote will be to rehire the former director, who was fired after being arrested with moonshine.

Joanna Hayes was picked up in Meriwether County on Wednesday and charged with the shooting murder of her daughter-in-law, Heather Strube, last April 26, in the parking lot of a Snellville Target store.

The Gwinnett County grand jury indicted a woman Wednesday in connection with the killing of her daughter-in-law in a Snellville parking lot last April.

The nearly three-year long widening of Interstate 85 is getting into its final months.

Sometimes the best way to make it through a hard patch is to grit your teeth and fake a smile.

A Gwinnett County senior judge was kicked off the board of a nonprofit organization after the board said he had entered into an agreement to pay a fellow board member nearly $400,000 without authorization, records show.

Q: On I-85 between Atlanta and LaGrange, there is road construction both east and west for approximately 25 miles.

The man charged with last week's robbery of an FNB branch in Griffin has now been charged with two similar robberies at a bank in Concord.

According to a press release from the Pike County Sheriffa s Office, Pike County investigators have obtained two armed robbery arrest warrants for William Lee Hunt Jr.