Author: MJ Kneiser

By Ethan Jordan, WNEG Radio, Toccoa The Toccoa Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating the man they believe is responsible for a homicide overnight involving two known stabbings and one abduction. According to Toccoa Police Chief Jimmy Mize, officers were dispatched to a residence on Mill Street overnight where they found two victims who had been […]

We don’t often think about safety at railroad crossings, but Federal statistics show that about every three hours in the United States, a person or vehicle is hit by a train. This is Rail Safety Week, and the goal of Rail Safety Week is to reduce pedestrian and driver injuries and fatalities around railroad tracks through increased public awareness and […]

The body of a missing fisherman on Lake Hartwell over the weekend has been identified. According to a report on WYFF TV in Greenville, it happened Saturday near Waldrop’s Landing on the South Carolina side in Anderson. 69-year old Robert Lee Carroll from Hodges, South Carolina was participating in a fishing tournament Saturday but failed to show up for the […]

In Toccoa, a man sleeping at the McDonald’s on Big A Road, found himself spending the night in jail. According to Toccoa Police Chief Jimmy Mize, on the morning of September 18, officers were dispatched to McDonalds, on Big A Road, in regard to a sleeping male. The caller stated when employees went to wake the man up, they saw […]

It might seem like it, but Northeast Georgia is not in a drought quite yet. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Franklin and Hart counties are in the Moderately Dry range, which is one step below the first level of drought. With no rain for the past couple of weeks, we are now about seven inches below normal rainfall for […]