All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 5 2021 // Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King announced that a Putnam County fire was intentionally set and has been ruled an act of Arson. The fire occurred on Grand Avenue at approximately 3:19 A.M. on July...
Aug 5 2021 // An Atlanta-area sheriff is facing an additional charge in a federal prosecution accusing him of violating the civil rights of people in his agency’s custody by ordering that they be strapped into a restraint chair...
Aug 4 2021 // More oil gushed into the water Monday from the remains of an overturned cargo ship being dismantled along the coast of Georgia, where dozens of workers were still busy cleaning up thick bands of blackened sand from a...
Aug 3 2021 // When the giant cargo ship began to tip over off the Georgia coast, harbor pilot Jonathan Tennant found himself on his side, screaming orders in the darkness while flying debris that felt like gravel pelted him.After much...
Aug 2 2021 // Jurors convicted suspended Georgia insurance commissioner Jim Beck on 37 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering and tax fraud charges.The jury needed about an hour and 20 minutes to return the guilty...
Jul 27 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials are proposing nearly $1 million in fines against four companies following a liquid nitrogen leak in January that killed six workers at a northeast Georgia poultry processing plant.U.S....
Jul 22 2021 // Jurors convicted suspended Georgia insurance commissioner Jim Beck on 37 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering and tax fraud charges.The jury needed about an hour and 20 minutes to return the guilty...
Jul 22 2021 // Georgia’s suspended insurance commissioner testified at his federal fraud trial Tuesday, saying he oversaw valuable work for his former employer and that hundreds of thousands of dollars that flowed to an entity he...
Jul 18 2021 // Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck improperly took money from the private insurer he led and used it to buy campaign signs when the Republican ran for office in 2018, a witness testified Friday in...
Jul 15 2021 // A local government in Georgia agreed Tuesday to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a Hispanic man who died in a struggle with police officers 2017.Columbus Council members met in closed session and...
Jul 14 2021 // Prosecutors want jurors to conclude that suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck was running a $2 million scam to bilk money from the property insurer he led before being elected. Defense attorneys say Beck was...
Jul 12 2021 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck will go trial this week on charges that he swindled his former employer out of $2 million to pay personal bills and pump money into his 2018 campaign.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Jul 9 2021 // A recent fire In Columbia County, Georgia has been ruled arson, according to Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King’s Fire Investigations Unit.The fire occurred on Sullivan Hartfield Road in Evans and...
Jul 9 2021 // Tropical Storm Elsa was carving a destructive and soaking path up the East Coast after killing at least one person in Florida and spinning up a tornado at a Georgia Navy base that flipped recreational vehicles upside-down...
Jun 30 2021 // Managers of a burning warehouse, which rapidly became so engulfed that flames threatened nearby homes, waited a day before calling the local fire department for help, Georgia state investigators said in a report.A giant...
Jun 29 2021 // The National Hurricane Center has withdrawn yesterday’s tropical storm warning. Tropical Storm Danny has weakened as it travels inland over Georgia and is no longer classified as a tropical cyclone.The remnants of...
Jun 24 2021 // A coastal Georgia hospital system is still struggling to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its computer systems last week.Local news outlets report that the St. Joseph’s/Candler health system, which...
Jun 22 2021 // The size of wood pellet stacks and low water pressure may have contributed to a spectacular blaze that burned for days in May at a warehouse on the Georgia coast.The Brunswick News reports that Georgia Ports Authority...
Jun 17 2021 // JONESBORO, Ga. — The family of a mentally disabled man is suing a Georgia behavioral health system, saying its employees forced him onto a bus to Atlanta where he wandered the streets and suffered from hypothermia.The...
Jun 15 2021 // A Georgia jury has awarded $500,000 to a woman who sued her former pastor, alleging that he had sexually abused her for years, starting when she was 15 years old.Jurors in Columbus found that Lewis Clemons, who led the...