Author: MJ Kneiser

State officials say the delay in getting monies out to help the elderly and low-income families pay their heating bills this winter has nothing to do with a shortfall in funding. Rather, it’s an accounting issue. On Friday, the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services announced the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program or LIHEAP, will start a month later […]

Traffic is flowing again on I-85 through Banks County but there were some tense moments yesterday afternoon. Banks County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Sgt Carrissa McFaddin said a passenger vehicle struck a tanker truck carrying explosive material. It happened about 3:15 Monday afternoon on I-85 northbound near Exit 154. Sheriff’s deputies and troopers with the Georgia State Patrol blocked of a quarter […]

Fall is prime breeding season for deer across Georgia. It’s also when drivers are more likely to hit deer that run into the road, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. UGA researchers have completed a county-by-county analysis of when motorists should be more aware of possibly hitting a deer. They looked at breeding data and then […]

Stephens County EMS is getting a new piece of equipment to help them in cardiac arrest cases. On Monday, the Stephens County Hospital Authority voted unanimously to purchase a LUCAS Chest Compression System for the county’s EMS. Hospital Administrator Ed Gambrell said that the device assists EMS personnel by performing chest compressions during CPR. “This device does the compression part […]

Opening arguments have been pushed back to November in the murder trial of Brent Shubert, the Franklin County man accused in the 2013 strangulation murder of his fiance’, Bonny Ann Cooner. Shubert’s murder trial was to have begun this morning, but on Friday, Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Parks White requested a continuance. White told Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Malcom […]