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Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 8.3 percent in May. The rate was up one-tenth of a percentage point from 8.2 percent in April, but it was down eight-tenths of a percentage point from 9.1 percent in May a year ago. “The rate increased primarily because more jobseekers entered the labor force looking for work,” said State Labor Commissioner […]

July 4th is two weeks away, but the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety (GOHS) launches its annual Operation Zero Tolerance campaign today in a national impaired driving enforcement effort to get drunk drivers off the roads and inside a jail cell. July 4th remains one of the most dangerous holidays on Georgia roads, according to authorities because alcohol-impaired crashes still […]

Jury deliberations are expected today in the case of a Canon man accused in the traffic deaths of two people and the injury of a third on SR17 in April 2012. Authorities say on April 16th, 2012, James Thomas “Tommy” Dickson was high on drugs and alcohol when he crossed the double yellow line in the four-lane on SR 17 […]

Hart County Sheriff’s investigators have arrested one man in connection with the theft of at least 22-thousand pounds of copper wiring from the Lake Hartwell Dam. According to Hart County Sheriff’s investigator Eric Cutshall the copper, which had a street value of $100,000 was taken over a period of time by outside contractors hired by the U.S. Army Corps of […]

It has been years in the planning and now work is underway in Stephens and Franklin counties to expand SR17 into a four-lane from the Franklin County line into Toccoa.  “Work began on Monday,” said Georgia Department of Transportation spokesperson Teri Pope. “The contractor started clearing so work has officially begun. You’re going to see that clearing take awhile because […]