All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 1 2019 // A Georgia man was arrested last month after a joint effort between investigators in the Fraud Unit at the Georgia Department of Insurance and multiple state agencies discovered he was allegedly operating a chop shop in...
Apr 18 2019 // For four days in February, Ben Shukman showed up to his office at Phantom Auto in Mountain View, California, sat down in front of a bank of computer screens with a steering wheel in a darkened room, and began driving. As...
Apr 16 2019 // Georgia’s governor and other state leaders are blasting Congress over its failure to approve a package of disaster relief measures.The $14 billion aid package is desperately needed by farmers and others who suffered...
Apr 4 2019 // Mercury Insurance has launched a home cyber protection offering for homeowners and renters in Georgia.The new coverage will provide Mercury policyholders with cyber insurance protection that includes payment and security...
Apr 3 2019 // The Georgia Department of Insurance has unveiled a new program called Open Checkbook on its website that details how the agency spends its funds.According to a statement from Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck, Open...
Apr 1 2019 // Georgia’s timber industry is facing many headwinds as it seeks to recover from the severe damage wrought by Hurricane Michael late last year.The storm erased three-quarters of a billion dollars in timber, The...
Mar 28 2019 // An insurance company is suing a business whose chief executive was flying a plane that crashed in Georgia, killing him and three passengers.Federal court records show Zurich American Insurance Co. of Illinois is suing...
Mar 21 2019 // Georgia’s timber industry is facing many headwinds as it seeks to recover from the severe damage wrought by Hurricane Michael late last year.The storm erased three-quarters of a billion dollars in timber, The...
Mar 18 2019 // The number of tornadoes confirmed to have touched down in a deadly outbreak across the Southeast in early March was at least 36.Survey teams for the National Weather Service found evidence of the twisters in Alabama,...
Mar 8 2019 // The number of tornadoes confirmed to have touched down in a deadly weekend outbreak across the Southeast has risen to at least 36. Survey teams for the National Weather Service found evidence of the twisters in Alabama,...
Mar 8 2019 // The production and sale of low-potency medical marijuana oil could soon be allowed in Georgia under a bill passed Tuesday by the House.Lawmakers voted 123-40 to clear the measure, two days ahead of a legislative deadline...
Mar 7 2019 // All those listed as missing have been found and searches ended with no additional bodies discovered among the shattered homes, splintered pines and broken lives devastated by a tornado in rural Alabama, leaving the death...
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...