Meriwether County News

West Georgia Technical College has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Education to expand an existing program that trains students in a modern industrial skill set that is in high demand.

Troup County Sheriff Donny Turner has engaged a private company to collect the county's delinquent taxes, relieving the tax commissioner's office of that responsibility.

One in a series On Hogansville City Council, incumbents Bobby Joe Frazier and Charlie Frank Martin face opposition from Derek Hay and Scott Worthy, respectively.

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.

Meriwether County's commissioners are set to hire a new public works director Tuesday, but Commissioner Larry Whitlock is worried the vote will be to rehire the former director, who was fired after being arrested with moonshine.

Joanna Hayes was picked up in Meriwether County on Wednesday and charged with the shooting murder of her daughter-in-law, Heather Strube, last April 26, in the parking lot of a Snellville Target store.

The Gwinnett County grand jury indicted a woman Wednesday in connection with the killing of her daughter-in-law in a Snellville parking lot last April.

The nearly three-year long widening of Interstate 85 is getting into its final months.

Sometimes the best way to make it through a hard patch is to grit your teeth and fake a smile.

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.

Q: On I-85 between Atlanta and LaGrange, there is road construction both east and west for approximately 25 miles.

The man charged with last week's robbery of an FNB branch in Griffin has now been charged with two similar robberies at a bank in Concord.

According to a press release from the Pike County Sheriffa s Office, Pike County investigators have obtained two armed robbery arrest warrants for William Lee Hunt Jr.

A Woodbury man has been arrested in connection with the robbery of a Griffin bank Oct.

Coweta County has one less federal stimulus project. The project is still being done, it just won't be paid for with economic stimulus funds.

Three Meriwether County men were arrested by Newnan Police officers and charged with the burglary of a Corinth Road residence after officers stopped a car containing the three suspects for traffic violations.

One Friday night many years ago I spent a week in Salina, Kansas. Yes, you read that correctly.

The National Weather Service has put part of Taylor County under a flash-flood warning until 1:15 p.m. The warning affects eastern Meriwether County, Pike County, western Upson County, Talbot County and northwesternTaylor county.

For people with medical problems -- but no insurance -- there are options nearby.

For people with medical problems -- but no insurance -- there are options nearby.