Fannin County News

Tennessee prosecutors have dropped charges against a Snellville businessman who was accused of kidnapping and raping an Atlanta stripper.

"Don't say we didn't warn you!" That's the word from state law enforcement officers as they launch a major DUI crackdown that will continue through the July Fourth holiday.

I am searching for descendants of Nathan and Lavinia Hughes from Fannin County, Georgia .Their daughter Elizabeth was my maternal great grandmother.She was married to R. Melton Loggins from white county, ga.

A 24-year-old who claims she was kidnapped from her Atlanta neighborhood and raped by a Snellville computer software engineer has spent her life lying to get attention, her family said Friday.

The Atlanta woman who claimed she was kidnapped and raped by a Snellville software engineer was secretly dating her alleged abductor, according to court documents filed late Thursday.

Suspect was customer at strip club, a 'super nice guy' The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wednesday, June 03, 2009 The woman who claims she was kidnapped, bound and raped by a Snellville man was open about her interest in bondage fantasies, associates say.

A Tennessee prosecutor said Tuesday he isn't ready to drop a kidnapping and rape case just because the Georgia victim, apparently rescued by a 911 call from a pizza deliveryman, lied about being assaulted in the past.

Police in Tennessee are going ahead, for now, with the rape case against a Snellville man accused of attacking an Atlanta woman in a rental cabin near Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

A woman who told police she was kidnapped from an Atlanta street, driven to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee where she was raped has pleaded guilty twice before to charges she filed false assault reports, a newspaper reported Monday.

Former state Senate Majority Leader Bill Stephens has filed papers to run for the congressional seat being vacated by Nathan Deal.

The Riverside Military Academy tennis team defeated Fannin County 3-2 on Wednesday.

The Lumpkin County boys golf team opened its regular season with a 157-171 win against Dawson County on Thursday at Achasta Golf Course in Dahlonega.

The Dawson County girls basketball team fell to Fannin County, 46-33 Tuesday night in Dawsonville.

The Riverside Military junior varsity basketball team defeated Union County 51-35 on Tuesday in Blairsville.

Fannin County officials say all schools in the district will be closed on Thursday.

Some wintry precipitation in the forecast this morning as another round of unseasonably cold weather heads our way.

A rash of mail thefts in Fannin has apparently been solved with the arrest of two Morganton individuals.

News Observer photo/Dub Joiner Kayla Allen, Nekeda Moore and Chris Quinn, from left, were three of Terry Callihan's construction class students at Fannin County High School who helped pack food into boxes given ...

It has been almost a year ago since a friend sent me a list of ways a person could tell if he or she was from Fannin County.

If one were to judge by the number of homes with outdoor Christmas lights this year, it would seem that there has been less Christmas spirit to go around this year.