Harris County News

A bookkeeper with knowledge of the financial records kept by Columbus Mark Shelnutt's former law firm testified Friday that there were no records of payments from Shelnutt client Shawn Bunkley.

Kip Smith will have to wait four weeks to see if voters of Georgia House District 129 will send him to Atlanta to replace his father in the General Assembly.

Columbus publishing consultant and talk show host Jerry Luquire, former legislator and Hamilton businessman Earl Davis, Pine Mountain wellness center owner Steve Earles, and Smith's son and managing partner of the Dallas Chipley Group Kip Smith - are fighting it out for the opportunity to serve the final year of the two-year term.

Earl Davis left the Georgia General Assembly in 1974 - 35 years ago. Now, at age 75, Davis wants back in the game.

That's what the sign says at Bishop Marion Edwards' back door. Given to him by a friend, the sign means that after 40 years of living in church-owned housing, the clergyman and his wife bought their own house.

Harris County authorities discovered a methamphetamine lab Thursday inside an Ellerslie, Ga., trailer home.

Voting has begun in parts of Muscogee, Harris and Troup counties to fill the Georgia House District 129 seat vacated when Vance Smith was named commissioner of the Department of Transportation four months ago.

A Harris County woman died in an accident in Peach County Sunday night. Sheriff Terry Deese says Kayla Brown was driving west on Highway 96 around 10 p.m. Sunday, when last she apparently drove through a stop sign at the Highway 49 bypass.

Eight illegal gambling machines were found Wednesday inside the Lotus Cafe - the first bust of its kind in Harris County, Sheriff Mike Jolley said.

West Point City Council, as well as leaders from Harris and Troup counties, walked away from a day-long retreat Wednesday with a list of ways the groups could improve communication and work on joint projects.

'It's time to start running!' Not yet, though. Before you mentally prepare yourself for a grueling, tiresome, intense run through these dirty Columbus streets, treat yourself to a night of madcap hilarity.

Authorities claimed that Ronald Kirkwood had more than 100 pounds of marijuana on his Harris County property in April 2008.

A multi-jurisdictional team of drug enforcement officers delivered a huge blow Wednesday to a local drug trafficking organization when they seized approximately $400,000 in cocaine as well as other contraband from a Columbus residence and storage facility.

Four Republicans have qualified to run for the vacant Georgia House District 129 seat.

Four candidates, all Republicans, have qualified for the District 129 seat in the Georgia House of Representatives.

A 1,100 acre project is waiting for the final green light from the Harris County Commission.

A chance meeting between two Harris County men about 14 months ago turned into a labor of love and a way to record history in one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Resettlement villages of the 1930s.

A chance meeting between two Harris County men about 14 months ago turned into a labor of love and a way to record history in one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Resettlement villages of the 1930s.

Developers of The Grove, a planned mixed-use community off Interstate 185 and Ga.

The Harris County Commission is scheduled to issue a proclamation at its Tuesday meeting declaring that it will not buy General Motors or Chrysler products.