Georgia and Southeastern News

Federal and state agents searched a Cartersville motel Wednesday hoping to find any trace of Heather McDonald ??or the person connected to her disappearance.

MELBOURNE, Fla. — Evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people was underway Wednesday in Florida and South Carolina as Hurricane Matthew roared closer to the U.

Officials ordered the mandatory evacuation of one coastal Georgia community Wednesday and urged others to do the same as Hurricane Matthew neared Florida and threatened death and destruction up through the Carolinas.

If she hadn?셳 called 911, Mary Ann Sherman believes her older son would still be alive. But at the time, she felt like there was no other choice.

Athens police are looking for a man who held a victim at gunpoint at a student apartment complex and stole $120 from him, according to a media report.

Now that Britain has set a date to start its Brexit divorce proceedings with the European Union, market jitters are back.

The city of Columbus Recorder’s Court has been fining victims of domestic abuse who decline to testify against their alleged abuser, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday.

The retired judge who presided over Gregory Lawler’s trial in 2000 for murdering an Atlanta police officer signed a warrant on Wednesday setting his execution for Oct.
Economists will be looking for this year?셲 Jekyll-and-Hyde labor market to show its true face Friday when the government releases the September jobs report.
A troubling number of police dogs have died so far this year in overheated vehicles, often as a result of forgetful handlers or malfunctioning air conditioning units, an animal rights group has found.

The man who was killed during an apparent officer-involved shooting Tuesday in Statesboro instead died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to a media report.

Mary Ann Sherman says her older son was the victim, not the perpetrator. But that?셲 now how he was treated by Coweta County deputies and an EMT.

As Zika skipped into Puerto Rico and then Florida this summer and threatened to spread northward, an uncoordinated patchwork of mosquito control offices — funded by state health departments, county governments and special tax districts — stretched their budgets in the campaign to track and eradicate mosquito breeding grounds.

Fulton County commissioners on Wednesday agreed to build a multi-use trail to connect the Wolf Creek Amphitheater with a nearby library.

The soft lockdown at Dacula High School and Dacula Middle School was lifted about 1:50 p.m. Wednesday, a Gwinnett County school official said.

If you live in Cobb County and are looking for work, you'll want to check out these jobs in Kennesaw.

Eight Georgians made the 2016 list of Forbes Magazine?셲 400 richest Americans.Gains in the stock market and growth by tech firms contributed to the biggest changes on this year?셲 list, Forbes said this week.

Nike is giving away 89 pairs of limited-edition, self-lacing "Back to the Future-"inspired sneakers to winners of a charity raffle.

A Democratic U.S. congressman has requested Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp provide more information about why the state pursued a proof-of-citizenship requirement for residents registering to vote using federal forms.

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