Jackson County News

The Hall County Local Emergency Planning Committee is busy updating its annual plan for addressing hazardous material spills.

Searchers have recovered the body of a Georgia teenager who apparently drowned while swimming in a Jackson County lake.

Todaya s visit is not so much about our town, but our state. I have long suspected South Carolina does a better job of promoting tourism than Georgia because it names things logically.

A deadly game has taken the life of a Jackson County teenager. It's called the "choking or fainting game." It involves choking oneself and cutting off the blood supply to the brain with the hopes of getting a quick "rush." But it left 16-year-old Michael Nalley of Jefferson dead.

From infancy, people were worried about Michael Levigne. The 6-year-old boy, who apparently was shot and killed by his grandfather June 7, left behind a caring grandmother, a little brother, a loving but unstable father, a distant birth mother, a collection of well-loved Thomas the Tank Engine toys and a 1,200-page Department of Family and Children ...

Braselton's clerk of court, Becky Skelton, is accused of skimming about $15,000 cash from the city's Municipal Court appearance bond lock box.

Weeks after a reported lion sighting in north Georgia, a Jackson County woman says her horse was killed by a big cat.

A man charged in a 2006 Hoschton quadruple murder had his first substantive court hearing in more than a year Thursday, though it appears unlikely his case will go before a jury before 2010.

Medical personnel examine suspect Richard Lewis Looney after he was slightly injured while running from police who responded to a robbery Wednesday at a Golden Pantry on Prince Avenue.

It took more than 20 years of use and several years of organizing, but city and county officials are finally ready to being improving John B. Brooks Road.

The Jackson County and Jefferson City public works departments will close John B. Brooks Road between U.S. Highway 129 and Georgia Highway 332 periodically over the next year for widening.

A Hoschton woman has been indicted in the death of a local 14-year-old, according to Hoschton police officials.

A Jackson County grand jury indicted a 37-year-old Hoschton woman Tuesday on felony involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the fatal overdose of a 14-year-old who was staying at her home in December.

How to help A charitable fund for the family of slain 6-year-old Michael Levigne has been set up through First United Methodist Church.

A trend away from traditional, letter-grade report cards is taking hold in Georgia.

At least school was out. Kim Savage, the principal of Commerce Primary School where Michael Levigne was a student, is thankful for that.

Submitted by Blake Aued on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 3:53pm. Republican gubernatorial candidate Nathan Deal will be speaking at a Jackson County Republicansa breakfast at 8 a.m. at the Beef Oa Bradya s in Jefferson.

Authorities recovered a stolen Dodge Charger, a stolen Jeep Wrangler and a stolen Chevrolet work van, stripped of their parts and left in a wooded lot on Dry Pond Road, according to a Jackson County sheriff's report.

Walton International Group Inc. announced today the successful completion of unit placements in Walton GA Arcade Meadows Limited Partnership 1. Walton GA Arcade Meadows Limited Partnership 1 attained a final closing on April 28, 2009, and involves USD $28,079,780 invested directly or indirectly by 1,109 investors.

The Georgia State Patrol says 41-year-old Robert Alan Mcilwain of Winder was the motorist who died Friday in a five-vehicle pileup that closed Interstate 85 in Jackson County for hours.