Douglas News

The unemployment rate in Forsyth County dropped below 6 percent in April, dipping three tenths of a percent since March.

This hotel is 1.3 miles from downtown Douglas, Georgia and 5.5 miles from Beaver Creek Golf Course.

Staff / Katherine Frye From left, John Stewart, of the Tuskegee Airmen Atlanta Chapter, and Turner Middle School Principal Kwame Carr.

On Saturday, 7-year-old Jason Sisk, from Fayetteville, Tennessee, made the biggest kill of his life in the Hog Hunters for Hope event in Douglas, Georgia.

It costs $1,130 less to get a CT scan in Douglas County than Paulding County. That's according to data from New Choice Health , a private company that encourages people to become smarter healthcare consumers.

May 14-- STANLEY SMITH, 61, of Douglas, Georgia, pled guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood for distributing drugs to his customers without a legitimate medical purpose.

Twenty-six people graduated May 3 from the North Central Georgia Law Enforcement Academy , and Douglas County Sheriff's Deputy Eric M. Amdal was one of them.

About 45 residents attended a town hall held at Lovejoy city hall last week, hosted by District 63 State Rep.

Local school system employees are facing furlough days, class sizes are getting larger and property taxes are expected to increase this year.

During the summer months in the metropolitan Atlanta region, the ozone in the air can reach unhealthy levels.

Haralson County commissioners discussed a plan to solve long-standing issues at the county jail, heard an emotional appeal regarding the youth firing range and approved a change for county employees' insurance during their April 17 work session.

Douglas County's unemployment rate dropped to its lowest level in more than four years in March, the Georgia Department of Labor reported.

WASHINGTON U.S. Congressman John Barrow will be in Douglas Wednesday for a series of events and meetings.

TIFTON POLICE DEPT. Tearra Renee Burns, 18, 906 E. 40th St., was charged Sunday with speeding, underage possession of alcohol and driving without a license on her person.

He was born May 17, 1943 in Carroll County Georgia, to the late Mr. Colbert Nolen and Mrs.

The Douglas Police Department has made an arrest in an aggravated assault case where a man was shot at on Friday afternoon.

Haralson County commissioners discussed a plan to solve longstanding issues at the county jail, heard an emotional appeal regarding the youth firing range and approved a change for county employees' insurance during their April 17 work session.

The Women's Entrepreneurial Exchange will hold its Spring Business Expo and Health Fair from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday in the new Douglasville Conference Center downtown.