All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2013 // A jury in Columbus, Georgia has awarded $6.7 million in a 10-year legal battle involving an Alabama man who said his intestine was punctured during a hernia operation. The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported that the jury...
Nov 8 2013 // Investigators have arrested a man who they say was involved in an “elaborate theft ring” operating in northeast Florida and south Georgia.The Florida Times-Union reported that investigators tracked two stolen...
Nov 6 2013 // Georgia’s Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens criticized the rocky rollout of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in a recent interview with a local TV news station. Commissioner Hudgens, a...
Nov 5 2013 // AutoTown Insurance, an independent agency based in Norcross, Georgia, announced its acquisition of Fling Insurance Agency in Lagrange, Georgia. AutoTown said the acquisition highlights the firm’s expansion plans...
Nov 4 2013 // State Farm Insurance Co. plans to build a national operations center in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody. The facility will be built on a nearly four-acre site across from the Dunwoody MARTA station. City officials said the...
Oct 25 2013 // The Georgia town of Trenton seems to fit the model. Two people died there about a block from each other. Ringgold, Ga., does, too. Death toll there: 8.In both cases, National Weather Service maps that tracked the April 27,...
Oct 20 2013 // State Farm Insurance Co. plans to build a national operations center in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody.Dunwoody city officials announced the plans last Thursday. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the facility...
Oct 9 2013 // Representatives of a car parts manufacturing company say they’ve remedied several issues and have increased training after receiving the most federal safety violations in Georgia.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Oct 7 2013 // Georgia lawmakers are considering whether to overhaul the state’s medical malpractice system. A Senate panel heard testimony recently on Senate Bill 141, the Patient Injury Act, which would move medical malpractice...
Oct 2 2013 // Under a plan being discussed by a northeast Georgia school district, Colt 6920 M4 carbine rifles would be stored in safes inside schools to defend students in a school shooting.The weapons — one for each school...
Sep 26 2013 // A panel of state lawmakers is studying a Senate bill that would overhaul Georgia’s medical malpractice system, with groups such as the Medical Association of Georgia and the State Bar of Georgia lining up against...
Sep 23 2013 // Jack Kingston is U.S. Representative for the First Congressional District of Georgia, which encompasses 17 counties in Southeast Georgia including the entirety of the state’s coastline. He has represented the...
Sep 19 2013 // Georgia’s Richmond County Sheriff’s Department will no longer respond to most traffic accidents on private property, including parking lots, according to officials. Lt. Lewis Blanchard said the change is to...
Sep 10 2013 // Jack Kingston is U.S. Representative for the First Congressional District of Georgia, which encompasses 17 counties in Southeast Georgia including the entirety of the state’s coastline. He has represented the...
Sep 5 2013 // A Georgia school system is considering the idea of storing rifles in safes inside school offices in case they’re needed to defend students in a school shooting.Gainesville City Schools Superintendent Merrianne Dyer...
Aug 27 2013 // A state court has awarded a woman $12 million from the City of Savannah for injuries she suffered when a tree limb fell on her.A Chatham County State Court jury said that the city should pay 31-year-old Shanta Greene for...
Aug 21 2013 // Georgia is the most expensive state to operate a motor vehicle and Oregon is the cheapest, according to a Bankrate.com report that considers the costs of gasoline, insurance, repairs, taxes and fees.In Georgia, a typical...
Aug 20 2013 // In one football practice, some players may take several hits, while others take a few big blows.For coaches and trainers, keeping track of it all can be difficult. “A lot of times when we’re on the field,...
Aug 12 2013 // Georgia’s high court has handed contractors and their clients a victory by expanding the scope of a contractor’s general liability policy so that it includes damage due to a contractor’s faulty...
Aug 9 2013 // Bailey Tardy of Norcross, Ga. and Sam Stevens of Wichita, Kan., won the girls and boys divisions, respectively, at the recent 45nd Annual Trusted Choice Big “I” National Championship in Pinehurst, N.C.The...