All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 17 2017 // A stuntman for “The Walking Dead” has died from injuries suffered in a fall on the Georgia set of the hit television show, the first on-set death in the U.S. in three years.Coweta County Coroner Richard Hawk...
Jul 13 2017 // A movie director served jail time for trespassing onto a Georgia railroad bridge and putting his film crew in the path of a freight train that slammed into the group and killed a young camera assistant. Now the dead...
Jul 6 2017 // Gwinnett, Ga.-based InsuranceHub has merged with CoverYou Insurance, a tech-driven insurance agency located in nearby Lawrenceville. As a result of the merger, CoverYou’s five employees have moved to...
Jun 28 2017 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “bbb-” of Georgia Farm Bureau...
Jun 27 2017 // DeKalb County in Georgia has been fined $294,000 for spilling sewage into public waterways and underreporting the number of spills to environmental regulators.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the fines were levied...
Jun 20 2017 // Georgia’s peach crop is suffering much worse than expected after an overly warm winter and a hard freeze in early spring.Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution at the end of May...
Jun 16 2017 // Thad Bynum of Bynum Insurance Agency, a Trusted Choice agency in Clayton, Ga., was installed as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia (IIAGA), on June 10 during the association’s 120th annual...
Jun 15 2017 // An eight-vehicle crash in Georgia has killed one person and injured 17 others. Gwinnett County Fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge says in a news release that a vehicle trapped beneath a tractor-trailer was on fire when crews...
Jun 15 2017 // An Atlanta doctor has pleaded guilty to falsifying medical examination records for commercial truck drivers.Court records show 72-year-old Dr. Anthony Lefteris pleaded guilty last week to counts of falsifying documents and...
Jun 14 2017 // A wildfire that burned vast acreage and at one point threatened hundreds of homes near the Georgia-Florida state line has been nearly extinguished after steady rains soaked the Okefenokee Swamp over the past week.The team...
Jun 9 2017 // Arrest warrants were issued this week for 26 suspects in connection with an automobile insurance fraud ring centered in the Columbus, Georgia area, according to a statement from Insurance Commissioner Ralph...
Jun 7 2017 // The Georgia Supreme Court says a man who was severely beaten while leaving Six Flags Over Georgia a decade ago can collect $35 million in legal damages from the amusement park and his attackers. The ruling by...
Jun 6 2017 // A small earthquake has struck northeastern Alabama near the Georgia line. The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a magnitude 2.6 earthquake occurred Friday morning. The quake was centered in a rural area about 7 miles...
Jun 6 2017 // A panel of Georgia lawmakers plans to study the effect of drivers who are distracted by cell phones and other technology.House Speaker David Ralston appointed 7 Republicans and 3 Democrats to a study committee on the issue...
Jun 1 2017 // A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever set two fires in the breezeway of an occupied apartment building in Georgia. Gwinnett County fire officials said...
May 25 2017 // AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has announced the appointments of James Martin and Russ Madore, each as vice president, U.S. Programs, within AXIS Insurance’s Property and Casualty team. Martin and Madore will each be...
May 17 2017 // Georgia’s highest court has handed a victory to ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft.The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by Atlanta taxi drivers and...
May 16 2017 // A mandatory evacuation order has been lifted for two south Georgia towns threatened for days last week by a wildfire that had spread outside the boundaries of the neighboring Okefenokee swamp. Authorities say evacuation...
May 15 2017 // South Carolina Insurance Director Ray Farmer was elected to fill the position of secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners During a Plenary meeting by members, effective immediately.Farmer...
May 11 2017 // Georgia’s public university presidents and police chiefs were strongly opposed to letting people carry concealed handguns on college campuses. Now that Gov. Nathan Deal has signed the campus-carry law, it falls on...