All the headlines from our Georgia Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 17 2007 // A meat company in Forest Park, Ga., is recalling 1,900 pounds of ground beef sent to restaurants in Georgia, North Carolina, and two other states, saying it may be contaminated with E. coli.Arko Veal Company officials say...
Oct 5 2007 // The town of Talmo, Ga., boasts a post office, a volunteer fire department, a few cattle farms, two Coke machines and 500 residents who grew up “on beans and cornbread,” locals like to say.But they have been...
Oct 1 2007 // BB&T Insurance Services announced plans to expand its metro Atlanta and north Georgia operation with the acquisition of Sidney O. Smith Inc.Sidney O. Smith Inc. currently provides commercial and personal property and...
Sep 27 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $3,320,761 in projects that will reduce the possibility of flood damage in three...
Sep 25 2007 // For violating military sales regulations, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine revoked the licenses of three agentsThe regulations were recently enacted to protect soldiers from unscrupulous solicitation,...
Sep 18 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue extended an Executive Order that allows permitting through Sept. 30 for oversized trucks removing burnt timber from any of 21 southeast Georgia counties affected by wildfires this spring. These were the...
Sep 10 2007 // Thousands of acres of trees are being killed in Georgia this summer by one of the worst infestations of Southern pine beetles in decades, forestry officials say.Carolyn Johnson, assistant refuge manager at Piedmont...
Aug 31 2007 // Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine ordered a market conduct examination into recent allegations of invasion of privacy by Progressive Insurance Co.The examination resulted from allegations that...
Aug 28 2007 // The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency authorized $6.1 million in federal funds to reimburse local and state costs incurred while fighting numerous wildfires in southeast Georgia...
Aug 10 2007 // An attorney representing a group of deputies who sued after they were fired when a new sheriff took office in Clayton County says the case has been settled.Harlan Miller, attorney for the employees, said the settlement had...
Aug 8 2007 // ConAgra Foods Inc. said Monday it plans this month to reopen the plant in Georgia where thousands of jars of peanut butter linked to a U.S. outbreak of salmonella were filled.The Omaha-based company said it was planning to...
Jul 31 2007 // Gov. Sonny Perdue announced the award of $40 million in federal homeland security grants to Georgia for allocation to eligible communities around the state. “With the assistance of our federal partners, we continue...
Jul 23 2007 // A Savannah doctor pled guilty to participating in a $5 million scheme to defraud Georgia health care insurance programs.Rafael G. Razuri, who was an owner of Southside Medical and Rehabilitation Center, pled guilty to...
Jul 23 2007 // The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. has named Thomas M. Marra to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer. Marra, currently a member of the company’s board of directors and president...
Jul 18 2007 // In three major business rankings recently released, Georgia landed in the top five among states in areas such as best states to do business, entrepreneurship rate and nonemployer business growth.“By maintaining a...
Jul 10 2007 // Arson is unlikely in a northwest Georgia church fire that broke out early on July 6 – Georgia’s third church fire in less than two weeks, investigators said.Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John...
Jun 21 2007 // Eastern Alliance Insurance Co. reports it has received regulatory approval to write workers’ compensation business in the four southeastern states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.The company...
Jun 20 2007 // The annual Fourth of July fireworks display in Roswell, Ga., will proceed as planned – barring a return of extremely dry conditions – the fire chief told the city council Monday night.“It’s raining...
Jun 15 2007 // The Main Street America Group unveiled a new rating program designed to provide greater pricing flexibility for the super regional property-casualty carrier’s new Personal Auto policies.Personal Auto MVP...
Jun 14 2007 // In the name of automobile safety and traffic flow issues, Gov. Sonny Perdue announced the Georgia Department of Transportation has awarded a $192 million contract for the long-anticipated reconstruction of the Interstate...