Meriwether County News

Coweta County residents and other motorists who travel Interstate 85 should jump with joy when the construction and widening of the thoroughfare for 29 miles from South Fulton County, through Coweta County and into the edge of Meriwether County is completed.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is warning of extreme traffic congestion for this afternoon's commute as metro Atlanta residents rush home from work to begin their July 4th holiday celebrations early.

The merger of West Central Technical College and LaGrange-based West Georgia Technical College became official today.

Billie Jane McIntosh, a great-great-great-granddaughter of Chief William McIntosh, will be in Coweta County -- named in his honor as chief of the Cowetas -- Wednesday.

One of Senoia's most-needed road projects is set for letting in the next few months, thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

LaGrange's unemployment rate increased from a revised 14.6 percent in April to a preliminary 14.7 percent in May, according to the Georgia Department of Labor.

In February1825, Chief William McIntosh signed the Treaty of Indian Springs which opened west Georgia -- including what is now Coweta County -- to settlement.

Emily Watkins, Aneshia Whitehead and Makayla Gaddy swing on a playground Friday during the Boys and Girls Club a LEAPa program, a summer cultural enrichment program.

Darrell Thomas Copeland Darrell Thomas Copeland, age 64, died May 31, 2009 from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident in Meriwether County.

The investigation continues in Harris County after a hunter found a human skull and bones on Memorial Day near the Pine Mountain exit for Interstate 185.

The two men wanted in connection with an attempted armed robbery of Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents on Wednesday in Manchester are in custody.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is seeking two men wanted in connection with a shootout with GBI agents during a drug investigation in Meriwether County.

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

Sherri Brown / Daily News Melanie M. Traylor stands in the garden planted by her exceptional education students at Callaway High School.

This is John Jerome White. He was convicted in 1979 of raping a Meriwether County woman but was released in 2007 after DNA evidence conclusively proved he was not guilty.

Gov. Sonny Perdue has approved a $500,000 payout for a Georgia man who spent almost three decades in prison before DNA tests cleared him of rape.

A LaGrange woman was injured in a nightclub shooting that left a Greenville man dead.

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.

John Jerome White spent more than 20 years in a Georgia prison for a rape and robbery he did not commit.A On Friday the General Assembly awarded White $500,000 to compensate him for his wrongful conviction and long years in prison.

The Georgia Senate has moved to cut the state payout to a Georgia man who spent almost three decades in prison for a rape DNA tests later showed he didn't commit.