All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 26 2021 // Georgia taxpayers are spending nearly $200,000 a year in salary and benefits for an insurance commissioner who’s been suspended for nearly two years.When Insurance Commissioner John King presented his budget to...
Jan 25 2021 // A suburban Atlanta teenager has been arrested on charges that he defrauded a supermarket where he worked of nearly $1 million over a two-week period.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports 19-year-old Tre Brown was...
Jan 19 2021 // Several north Georgia counties are getting federal aid to repair infrastructure and clean up damage from Hurricane Zeta in October.The storm, which made landfall in Louisiana, blew over trees in metro Atlanta and areas to...
Jan 14 2021 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has added Georgia and Utah to the list of states where the insurer offers its homeowners product. With these additions, the company now offers its personal lines products in 22...
Jan 12 2021 // Authorities in Georgia’s oldest city say they saw no deaths from fires in 2020, the first time that’s happened in a decade. The Savannah Fire Department said in a news release it responded to 920 fires last...
Jan 7 2021 // Georgia’s public safety department said Monday that 10 fatal traffic crashes over the New Year’s holiday weekend resulted in 13 deaths. The crashes happened between Thursday, Dec. 31 at 6 p.m. and midnight...
Dec 30 2020 // The Georgia State Patrol says 20 people died in crashes across the state over the Christmas weekend. Troopers said Monday that they investigated 251 crashes from 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, resulting in 91 injuries and...
Dec 22 2020 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that an Atlanta suburb improperly relied on fines and fees to finance its budget.U.S. District Judge Richard Story last week dismissed a case brought against the city of...
Dec 21 2020 // A Georgia prosecutor says a burglary ring hit 49 businesses a total of 58 times over four months, and five people are accused.Targets included gas stations, dollar stores and popular restaurants in Macon, and burglaries...
Dec 18 2020 // Four retail insurance brokers – Founders Insurance, Hutchinson Traylor Insurance, McGinty-Gordon & Associates, and Waites & Foshee – have signed definitive agreements to combine to form Oakbridge Insurance...
Dec 18 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies has added Georgia to the list of states where it company offers its Accountants Professional Liability policy. Georgia is now the sixth state that the insurer offers this...
Dec 16 2020 // The Doan Group, a Woodland Capital Holdings Co., has added Roger Crowley to the company in the role of vice president of Sales and Operations. According to Tim Davis, Jr. of Woodland Capital, Crowley has significant...
Dec 15 2020 // A portion of the personal auto insurance business of a Texas insurance company that appeared to be headed for liquidation at the end of November is being assumed by a Georgia-based insurer.Embark General, headquartered in...
Dec 14 2020 // Georgia is moving forward with plans to test for lead in drinking water at schools and child care facilities.The state Board of Education on Thursday approved hiring Research Triangle Institute for $980,000 to perform the...
Dec 11 2020 // Students who took online classes at the University of Georgia and the Georgia Institute of Technology due to the pandemic are now seeking a return of some tuition and fees. The students filed two class-action lawsuits this...
Dec 2 2020 // Georgia has opened the application process for businesses that want to manufacture cannabis oil for medical use in the state.The General Assembly legalized the treatment for a limited number of conditions five years ago,...
Dec 1 2020 // The dewatering and closure of remaining coal ash ponds at a Georgia Power Co. plant in northwest Georgia will take 15 years to complete.That’s what the unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. told local leaders earlier...
Nov 25 2020 // Debris is washing up from a cargo ship stranded on the Georgia coast as a salvage team cuts it into chunks.The leaks are not unexpected as salvagers demolish the Golden Ray, a South Korean ship that overturned in St....
Nov 23 2020 // A middle Georgia county has approved an anti-discrimination ordinance that would govern businesses, despite opposition from some.Macon-Bibb commissioners voted 5-4 in favor of the proposal on Tuesday, sending it to Mayor...
Nov 16 2020 // A property insurer is off the hook for a $200,000 claim against a policy that it canceled, leaving a lawsuit filed against a former insurance agent who was arrested for pocketing premiums as the only apparent recourse...