Shannon News

As the sun sets this week on the most trying fiscal year educators can recall, superintendents and legislators brace for the dawn of fiscal year 2010, which begins Wednesday.

After only two minutes of flight, Charles Kirtland knew his Wheathopper ultralight aircraft was having a problem.

A new industrial park could be prepped for prospects within a year with a $9.9 million earmark in a special purpose, local option sales tax package, development officials told members of the SPLOST Citizens Advisory Committee.

A Lumpkin County grand jury this week declined to return a vehicular homicide indictment against a Georgia State Patrol trooper involved in an accident that killed a motorcyclist.

By SHANNON McCAFFREY Associated Press Writer ATLANTA - Property assessments in Georgia cannot rise until 2011 under a bill signed into law on Wednesday by Gov.

A committee appointed to review proposals for a new special purpose, local option sales tax package is expected to start hearing presentations May 19.

A storm ended tonight's First Friday concert early. Pepperell High School's Jazz Ensemble opened the concert at BridgePoint plaza.

By SHANNON McCAFFREY Associated Press Writer ATLANTA - A top Republican state senator on Monday threw his hat in the 2010 Georgia governor's race.

Gordon County remains under tornado watch until 10 p.m.; thunderstorms likely through 2 a.m. 04/10/09 By Susan Kirkland, Jackie Seger and John Willis Email this story to a friend A large tree fell on this house in Calhoun's Historic District Friday night.

Although the storm system that moved through Floyd County on Good Friday pelted cars and homes with hail and toppled trees, residents were relatively lucky, said the assistant director of the Floyd County Emergency Management Agency.

By SHANNON McCAFFREY Associated Press Writer ATLANTA - New jobless claims surged last month, jumping 126 percent from March 2008, the state Labor Department reported on Thursday.

A teen-ager has allegedly confessed to killing a Sale City man Friday. James Jamal Williams, 19, of 512 Edmondson Road, was charged with murder.

As the nation's largest peanut producers, Georgia's 5,000 or so peanut farmers had a bumper crop last year.

In a tiny classroom, children of few words trace the alphabet in shaving cream, flinging globs of white foam onto their clothes and hair.

St. Patrick's Day is still a few days away, but for many the celebrating starts this weekend.

As the most racially diverse team of executive officers in history stands at the helm of U.S. government, state legislators seem at odds over whether discrimination remains a problem in Georgia.

Today's artwork is by Anaya Desai, a Rome 3-year-old. The American Red Cross will train adults in CPR at no cost today from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Georgia Highlands College Heritage Hall campus, 415 E. Third Ave.

There are some impacts to the habitat from activities such as home construction and cows tromping around, but almost all of the sites are in the middle, or upper middle, range, said Margaret Tanner, project ...

From left, state Sen. Jim Butterworth of Cornelia, state Rep. Ron Stephens of Savannah, Maj.

Thomas Thompson is staying busy these days. He owns Summerville Ace Fine Wines and Spirits and says despite the economy, his alcohol sales have increased.