Warm Springs News

Within view of a large bust of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, construction has begun on The Roosevelt School at Warm Springs, a $20 million residential and vocational services facility to serve students at Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation.

A Gwinnett County senior judge was kicked off the board of a nonprofit organization after the board said he had entered into an agreement to pay a fellow board member nearly $400,000 without authorization, records show.

The Coweta County Sheriff's Office is sponsoring the fifth annual Bikes and Badges motorcycle ride to benefit the Georgia Sheriff's Youth Homes Oct.

With the forecast still calling for showers all day over Middle Georgia hundreds of runners, joggers, hobbyists, walkers and cheering sections rallied at Summers Field by 8:00 a.m. for the annual Buggython Road Race.

A judge Friday set bond for a couple accused of swindling Columbus' Mikata Japanese Steakhouse and Sushi Bar owners out of more than $3 million at roughly that same amount: $3 million.

District Attorney Julia Slater, flanked by law enforcement from several counties, told reporters the case against Michael and Phillis Bleckley is being prosecuted by her chief deputy, Alonza Whitaker.

Columbus police say they've cleared 25 burglaries, and one car theft, that occurred over the past two months with the arrests of five juveniles.

From 1933 to 1960, America had nearly three decades of fairly successful presidencies - through the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, and the threat of nuclear Armageddon.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt our nations 32nd President was by many, considered an adopted resident of Georgia.

Literacy volunteers go 'Riding for Reading' The local chapter of Literacy Volunteers for America will host its second "Riding for Reading" event, a motorcycle ride to benefit the agency, on Saturday.

The leadership team at Duracell P&G says no one exemplifies the spirit of volunteering more than Russ Erenheim.

During the 1940s, a huge number of women filled factory jobs left vacant by men who were fighting during World War II.'Rosie the Riveter,' as these women were collectively called, will come alive noon-3 p.m. June 6 during the annual D-Day Observance at Roosevelt's Little White House State Historic Site, 401 Little White House Road, in Warm Springs, ...

Today's column came from Warm Springs, Ga. , site of Franklin D Roosevelt's Little White House and the place he died on April 12, 1945.

April 13, 1945 - President Franklin Roosevelt is dead at the age of 63 after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., the previous day.

Quiet like some still day, Jesus calls me home. 'Going Home' A. Dvorak Musician Graham Jackson, a friend and favorite entertainer of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, tearfully played that slow, soulful song on the accordion one last time on April 12, 1945, as FDR's funeral procession left Warm Springs, Ga., on his last trip back to Washington.

We had entered the new spring season about three weeks earlier. Some farmers were just getting started in the fields when radio stations informed America that President Roosevelt had died at the Little White House in Georgia.