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Turner County representatives are gearing up to go before the Georgia Supreme Court Tuesday for a case that could impact local option sales taxes statewide.

The Dougherty County Commission was presented next year's budget by the finance committee at Monday morning's meeting.

In this dispute between the governments of Turner County and three cities over how Local Option Sales Tax proceeds should be distributed, the county is appealing a superior court ruling which picked the cities' plan for distribution over the county's. FACTS: Turner County and the cities of Ashburn, Rebecca and Sycamore, GA reached an impasse over ... (more)

The Hall County School System has announced 120 Hall County seniors participating in the Work-Based Learning Program at their high schools have earned their GeorgiaBEST certification.

A Thomas County woman who cared for animals in a 2012 animal cruelty case described as "very doable" the sentence handed down on a defendant charged more than a year ago with 17 counts of animal cruelty.