All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 7 2019 // Donelan Andrews of Georgia has been a teacher for 25 years. Armed with a consumer economics background, she says she always reads every contract when she buys something, and she teaches her students to do the same. When...
Mar 6 2019 // Picking through the twisted debris that had been her Alabama mobile home, Carol Dean found her wedding dress and a Father’s Day note to her husband reading, “Daddy, I love you to pieces.”Her husband was...
Mar 5 2019 // Rescuers searched for victims Monday amid homes smashed to their foundations, shredded metal dangling from trees and dead animals lying in the open after a tornado ripped through a rural Alabama community and killed at...
Mar 5 2019 // An apparent tornado roared into southeast Alabama and killed at least 14 people and injured several others Sunday, part of a severe storm system that destroyed homes, snapped trees and unleashed other tornadoes around the...
Feb 25 2019 // A midyear budget that would add $20 million for loans to farmers and $2 million for hospitals affected by Hurricane Michael has received final approval from the Georgia legislature.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports...
Feb 20 2019 // A volunteer firefighter from Nicholls, Ga., was arrested and charged with three counts of arson after a fire at a wood structure in Alma, Ga., according to a statement from the Georgia Department of Insurance...
Feb 13 2019 // More than 30 people have been forced from their home in an apartment fire near Atlanta.Gwinnett Fire and Emergency Services told news outlets the fire was reported around 3:45 p.m. Saturday near Lawrenceville. No injuries...
Feb 13 2019 // The Georgia House has approved a midyear budget adjustment that increases funding for school safety and farmers hit by the devastation of Hurricane Michael in October.Republican Rep. Terry England, chairman of the House...
Feb 11 2019 // Authorities say a horse-drawn carriage has overturned in Savannah, injuring all seven aboard. News outlets report the carriage wreck happened Friday in Savannah’s downtown historic district. Savannah police...
Feb 8 2019 // Sharing personal information with friends and family has long been held by researchers as a way to build rapport and healthy relationships. But between coworkers, that’s not always true.That is at the center of new...
Feb 4 2019 // A railroad owner settled a wrongful death lawsuit by the family of a film worker killed in 2014 when a train slammed into a crew shooting a movie about singer Gregg Allman, ending the company’s appeal of a $3.9...
Jan 31 2019 // Metro Atlanta-based InsuranceHub’s Lee LeBaigue has transitioned from vice president of Sales to the role of vice president of Technology.LeBaigue originally joined InsuranceHub in 2011 with a background in SEO and...
Jan 31 2019 // Georgia’s new Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck has issued several orders directed at insurers since he took office earlier this month as part of what he says is fulfilling his campaign promise to be a commissioner for...
Jan 30 2019 // Five years after cars, trucks and school buses became marooned on Atlanta freeways in what became known as “snow jam ,” another winter storm is threatening the city – just as thousands of fans begin...
Jan 29 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
Jan 28 2019 // INSUREtrust has added Rachel Boyd as a Professional Lines account executive on Executive Vice President Christiaan Durdaller’s brokering team.Boyd has seven years of wholesale experience in management liability,...
Jan 11 2019 // The family of a 14-year-old Texas Boy Scout who was killed when a tree fell on his tent at a Georgia Scout camp is suing the Atlanta-area group overseeing Scouts programs.News outlets report Elijah Knight’s parents,...
Jan 9 2019 // A derailed train spilled various chemicals including hydrochloric acid outside of a small Georgia town, prompting evacuations.The director of the Jefferson County Emergency Management Agency, Jim Anderson, says a Norfolk...
Jan 7 2019 // For the seventh year in a row, the Florida insurance industry, regulators, and consumer advocates will push for reforms to the state’s assignment of benefits issue that has now become an insurance crisis, according...
Jan 2 2019 // Strewn in gnarled piles from Florida’s Gulf Coast up through South Georgia, the livelihood of timber farmers is on the ground. And, after the ravaging buzz saw of Hurricane Michael in early October, it will be a...