Author: MJ Kneiser

The Hart County Charter System is easing up on its visitation policy now that the County, along with other counties in the District 2 Public Health Region are considered to have a low community level of the transmission of COVID-19. School System spokesman Grayson Williams tells WLHR News that on Tuesday, the Hart County Charter System Leadership Team met to […]

St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital recently observed the second anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic by planting white flags on the lawn of it hospital. All three hospitals in the St. Mary’s Healthcare System, Athens, Lavonia, and Greensboro, planted a combined total of 2,700 flags. Each flag honors an inpatient with COVID-19 who received care at the three […]

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has arrested a Franklin County man on charges of Sexual Exploitation of Children. GBI spokeswoman Nelly Miles said 49-year old Howell Tim Scott of Martin was in possession of child sexual abuse material and was responsible for the distribution of child sexual abuse material. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes Unit […]

A former deputy for the Madison County Sheriff’s Office will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of a University of Georgia student. 34-year-old Winford Trey Adams the Third was sentenced to life in prison Monday in Clarke County Superior Court for the November 2019 murder of 26-year-old Benjamin Lloyd Cloer. According to a report in […]

The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety is warning Georgia motorists they’ll need more than a four-leaf clover to get out of trouble if they’re caught driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs this St. Patrick’s Day. GOHS is joining law enforcement and highway safety advocates statewide in reminding everyone that Georgia’s zero-tolerance policy for impaired driving remains in effect […]