Bethlehem News

The man believed to have robbed a Dollar General Store in Barrow County last week has been killed in a car accident, the Sheriff's Office said.

The American Red Cross will conduct several blood drives before year's end including blood drive donation opportunities on Monday.

Barrow County authorities are looking for a suspect involved in a robbery at a Bethlehem Dollar General Store.

The Dollar General in Bethlehem was robbed at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. According to Barrow County Sheriff's Office Investigator Matt Guthas, a white man entered the store and intimidated employees into giving him an undisclosed amount of cash.

Bethlehem homeowners fired several gunshots at two thieves who were trying to steal an all-terrain vehicle from a shed behind their home late last night, an investigator for the Barrow County Sheriff's Office says.

Julian McDaniel of Bethlehem was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Nov.

AUGUSTA, GA So, Matt Aitken won the District 1 race. A large segment of local residents are celebrating, calling Aitken's win, "A new day in Augusta." This city has heard that before.

There will be a familiar voice among the 140 singers that make up the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Gospel Choir, and it will be spotlighted during this weekenda s concert.

The Winder Christmas Parade, set for Saturday, Dec. 5, at 4 p.m. will feature 80-plus entries.

The Barrow County Water & Sewerage Authority will soon be making plans for its office relocation.

Elves with Holiday Connection are hopeful the after-Thanksgiving time will bring in additional donations to the annual collaborative project to coordinate the efforts of organizations serving children and families during Christmastime.

The cost of a $51 million Clarke County Jail expansion scheduled to begin in 2011 is on par with other recently built jails, but Athens taxpayers may be getting less for their money.

Keith Ridgeway of Bethlehem works on attaching the new Star of Bethlehem to a post on the corner of Star Street and Manger Avenue on Saturday morning.

The two men accused of murdering a well-known Athens man and his companion in Oglethorpe County in 2006 have another new trial date.

A brighter star will shine over the little town of Bethlehem this Christmas. Leaders in the Barrow County city - which draws people who want the Biblical postmark on their Christmas cards - nearly have finished building a replacement luminary in time for a 2009 debut.

Customers' senses will be awakened as they enter It's a Wonderful Life, says Jeannie Pickard, who is working hard to ensure customers will want to return again and again, thus becoming loyal customers of the newly-opened Bethlehem business.

For the third consecutive meeting, the Bethlehem Town Council discussed Craig Cole's new store, It's a Wonderful Life, at 812 Christmas Ave.

Deputies arrested a 41-year-old Bethlehem man last weekend after he began hollering at a bar manager who refused the man's request to book the glam-rock band Kiss, according to the Barrow County Sheriff's Office.

A Barrow County jail officer was arrested Thursday after he bought a small quantity of hyrdocodone from an undercover sheriff's deputy, the Sheriff's Office said.

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