Madison News

MADISON, Ga. a ' Authorities are investigating the death of man who apparently accidentally shot himself while showing off his gun on Christmas morning.

Authorities are investigating the death of man who apparently accidentally shot himself while showing off his gun on Christmas morning.

A former Department of Social Services probation officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for kidnapping and holding his ex-girlfriend and infant son hostage in Georgia.

Nila Burt, a math teacher at Shaw High School, has been selected as the new shared assistant principal at Northside and Hardaway High.

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Health departments in Northeast Georgia have gotten a shipment of vaccine for H1N1 influenza and are offering clinics to immunize citizens against the so-called swine flu.

A A A Wayne Dasher will lead the Glennville Chamber of Commerce as the groupa s president in 2010, with assistance from other newly elected officers:A Vice President - Zuber Malek; Treasurer - Jay Hales; and Secretary - Jane Joyner.A Dasher is an officer with the Claxton Bank and also is a member on the Georgia Department of Corrections Board.

Ia ve lived in the South most of my life, and I like to use that as an excuse to be extra sensitive to cold weather.

All children deserve holiday spirit, even those whose parents cannot be there to create it.

Mrs. Amy Jo Godwin Mrs. Amy Jo Godwin, 87, wife of Mr. Hubert Godwin, Sr., entered into rest on Wednesday, Nov.

According to Investigator Kendall Brown, the Richmond County Sheriff's Office is looking for 24-year-old Madison Antonio Lewis in connection with an armed Robbery of the B.P./Kangaroo Express Gas Station, located at 3001 Deans Bridge Road, on November 20, 2009.

Shorter College students Michael Lindsey of Madison and Elizabeth Telford of Duluth received the highest scores at a recent Georgia Theatre Conference.

A bus load of educators from across the state stopped at Centennial Arts Academy to get a look a what's working in Georgia schools.

Regions Bank plans to close or consolidate 121 bank branches in 16 states in early 2010, but the cost-cutting move won't affect any offices in the Athens area, a company spokeswoman said this morning.

Tate Tewksbury's broccoli rabe was, he admits, "a shot in the dark." "I've been growing it for eight weeks," he announces with mock authority.

Authorities are investigating a blaze on a charter bus along Interstate 20 as an arson.

An East Point man was seriously burned while trying to torch his charter bus after it broke down on Interstate 20 in Morgan County, a state investigator says.

A charter bus exploded this morning, snarling traffic along Interstate 20 near the U.S. Highway 441 interchange in Morgan County.

Clarke County Sheriff Ira Edwards will host his ninth annual Charity Motorcycle Ride at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct.

Tibi designer Amy Smilovic will speak on the creative process from inspiration to production and current trends in fashion.