Covington News

A bank robber decided to bypass the traditional brick-and-mortar financial establishments on Monday and hit up a teller inside a Covington Walmart instead.

A woman died late Sunday night after being shot in Newton County. Police were called to a home on Bell Street in Porterdale for a report of gunfire.

State labor officials will host job fairs this month connecting veterans and other job seekers with more than 90 employers.

In March, Stephen Wust decided to ditch his car for something less expensive to operate.

Hilda Needham Byrd Hilda Needham Byrd, age 53 of Walnut Grove passed away, Friday, Oct.

Nobody wanted them, or maybe that's what the people who conceived them thought. Brant Sanderlin Margaret Freeman tries to call the mother who abandoned a baby last month in DeKalb County to inform her there was a funeral planned.

A high-speed chase on I-20 Wednesday night ended in a gunfight between police and a suspect that left the suspect dead.

A former Newton County man has agreed to pay $125,000 to local investors who accused him of luring them into a complicated Ponzi scheme.

Covington police say a high-speed chase along Interstate Highway 20 ended in a shootout that killed the driver the officers had been pursuing.

The GBI is investigating a deadly officer involved shooting on I-20 in Newton County.

The CW recently jumped on the vampire bandwagon with The Vampire Diaries . The series was destined to be hit as it is executive produced by Dawson's Creek head honcho Kevin Williamson and is based on a series of popular teen novels.

A convicted bigamist posing as a veteran immigration lawyer scammed thousands of dollars from Guyanese immigrants in Brooklyn and gave them advice so bad they now face deportation, prosecutors said Thursday.

Prosecutors say a convicted bigamist posing as an immigration lawyer scammed thousands of dollars from more than a dozen Guyanese people in New York City, and they now face deportation because of his bad advice.

Do you like the idea of two 'major shopping center developments' possibly getting approved in the Sharpsburg area at the Nov.

Fun, food and friendship were all on display over the weekend at Social Circle's 15th annual Friendship Festival.

A Covington woman died Tuesday in a collision with a Newton County deputy in Jasper County.

It was the first time husband-and-wife team Andrew and Christina Norman had brought the vegetables grown on their Covington, Ga., farm to the Peachtree Road Farmers Market, and it did not look promising.

David Hays is a former cotton farmer from Mansfield. He lives in Covington now, but I am certain that he always will claim Mansfield as his home.

Karen D. PryorA A A Tuesday, September 15, 2009 NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. - A private family memorial service for Mrs.

Slow Food Atlanta and Georgia Organics are helping sponsor one of both groups' most popular events of the year: The fourth annual Field of Greens at Whippoorwill Hollow Farm in Covington on Sunday, October 4 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Whippoorwill farmers Andy and Hilda Byrd are hosts again this year.