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Toccoa Police are searching for a suspect in connection with a double shooting Sunday night, in which one victim died. Police Chief Jimmy Mize said Monday afternoon that his investigators, along with agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation have secured a murder warrant for 32-year old Brodrique Simone Dixon of Toccoa in connection with the death of 30-year old […]

Governor Brian Kemp has called up another 1,500 National Guard soldiers to help with COVID-19 response. More than 5,600 COVID-19 patients were hospitalized across Georgia as of Monday. That’s nearly one-third of all people in hospitals and just short of the record of 5,715 set on Jan. 13. Kemp signed the executive order Monday increasing the ceiling on guard members […]

Several local non-profit groups will share in $800,000 in United Way of Northeast Georgia grant funds in 2022. A total of 30 programs are receiving funding across the 12-county region. The grantees provide programming in one of the organization’s three focus areas: basic needs, early childhood success, and workforce development. Under the Early Childhood Success category, local recipients include Northeast […]

The Blood Connection will be in Lavonia today and later this week with their Bloodmobile and they need your blood and blood plasma to help with the overwhelming number of patients hospitalized in Georgia and the Upstate with COVID and other illnesses. Blood Connection Spokeswoman Katie Smithson says they are seeing historically low blood donations and historically high demand for […]

The Ark Family Preservation Center held a Groundbreaking Ceremony Thursday, Aug. 26, at 4:30 p.m. at the site of their future facility at 63 Springs Station Drive, Franklin Springs, Georgia. The event included a big announcement about an anonymous donor promising a matching grant up to $250,000 to help raise the remaining $500,000 to finish this project. That is half […]