Morganton News

Believe me, when you're driving a tank up the hood of a car, it's nice. And just before the tank sends its 30,000 pounds down on the roof, there's a pause that's a moment of pure existential bliss.

A weekend cold front produced unseasonably cold temperatures in North Georgia Monday.

Mrs. Roxie Pearl Whitfield, age 69 of Ball Ground, Georgia died Monday, May 6, 2013 at the Embracing Hospice in Cumming, Georgia following a period of declining health.

In the green woods of the North Georgia mountains, behind a computer-controlled electrified fence, an idiosyncratic millionaire keeps a menagerie of huge, powerful creatures.

Believe me, when you're driving a tank up the hood of a car, it's nice. And just before the tank sends its 30,000 pounds down on the roof, there's a pause that's a moment of pure existential bliss.

His legacy includes a revolutionary veterinary advancement at the ripe old age of 48 and three generations of descendants over 25 years, and he's still up for a birthday party.