All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
May 10 2017 // Jessica Boldin and her family evacuated 15 horses, six dogs and other animals from their ranch in rural Georgia as a vast wildfire emerging from the Okefenokee Swamp blackened trees behind their home.Flames that pushed...
May 8 2017 // Several dozen people in Georgia’s southernmost county have been evacuated after a wildfire in the Okefenokee Swamp has begun to burn just a few miles from the St. George community.Saturday’s evacuation...
Apr 26 2017 // A wildfire in Georgia that has scorched more than 70 square miles (180 square kilometers) of public lands near the Georgia-Florida state line could burn for the next six months unless heavy rains snuff out the flames...
Apr 25 2017 // The Georgia State Patrol says 10 people were injured in a 16-car pileup that shut down southbound Interstate 75 for nearly four hours.WSB-TV reports that the accident happened just before 2 p.m. on Sunday along I-75 at...
Apr 25 2017 // Officials say they have ended restrictions on poultry producers that were enacted after the first confirmation of avian influenza in commercial birds in Georgia.News outlets report state veterinarian Robert M. Cobb Jr....
Apr 19 2017 // Georgia residents on the western edge of the Okefenokee Swamp have been warned to prepare for potential evacuations from an approaching wildfire that has burned more than 30 square miles (80 square kilometers) of public...
Apr 13 2017 // A wildfire sparked by lightning in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is spreading through government-owned swamp and forestland, having burned more than 9 square miles (23.3 square km) near the Georgia-Florida state...
Apr 10 2017 // A jury in central Georgia has awarded $20.5 million in damages to a retired teacher in her civil lawsuit against a drug company. The Telegraph of Macon reports Ann Pope sued Akorn Inc. in Houston County State Court, saying...
Apr 4 2017 // San Diego-based K2 Insurance Services has acquired Star & Shield Insurance, an affinity distributor of insurance products to members of the public safety community and their families located in Alpharetta, Ga. Star...
Mar 30 2017 // About 18,000 chickens were destroyed at a northwest Georgia poultry farm after tests confirmed avian influenza in the flock, the first time the disease has been detected in commercial birds in the state, authorities said...
Mar 29 2017 // The Georgia Department of Insurance has issued warrants for two women on multiple counts of insurance fraud for allegedly filing fake auto injury claims that bilked two insurance companies out of more than...
Mar 20 2017 // A wave of break-ins and robberies of Georgia pharmacies is being fueled by a drug epidemic, authorities said.In June, a thief with a sledgehammer broke into a Snellville pharmacy and stole thousands of dollars worth of...
Feb 21 2017 // Licensed gun owners could carry concealed handguns on public college campuses under legislation advancing in the Georgia House.A panel approved the bill on Thursday after about an hour of testimony, sending it to the...
Feb 20 2017 // Cobbs Allen, a national insurance and risk management firm headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., has hired Tyrenda Williams-Reed as its new Human Resources director.Reed will be responsible for company-wide human resource...
Feb 14 2017 // Experts have confirmed a tornado plowed through two southeast Georgia counties where mobile homes were destroyed and several people were injured. The National Weather Service reported Friday a survey team found a tornado...
Feb 13 2017 // A Georgia sperm bank has been cited two days after a sheriff’s deputy died from inhaling liquid nitrogen while trying to save an employee.News outlets report that the Georgia Department of Insurance issued a cease...
Feb 6 2017 // A powerful explosion destroyed a home in Georgia on Friday, killing one person inside and shattering windows of neighboring houses as the blast’s shockwave was felt by people living miles away.Investigators were...
Feb 6 2017 // A Georgia judge dismissed claims against Snapchat that blamed the social media company’s “speed filter” for a highway crash. The judge said in the January ruling that the Communications Decency Act...
Feb 3 2017 // Alliant Insurance Services, a nationwide specialty insurance brokerage firm, has added Griff Moody to its Construction Services Group as senior vice president. Moody will provide insurance and surety risk advisory services...