The Board will review and interview applicants later this month and select top candidates for additional interviews in August.

Georgia legislators heard from cancer experts Wednesday as a part of an effort to study the disease this simmer in an attempt to reduce the rate.

An investigation is underway after one inmate died on Tuesday and two others were found unresponsive at the Athens-Clarke County Jail.

Athens Clarke County Police say 41 year Dwan Maurice Hewlett was lured to the location by a confidential informant.

The Creature Comforts Brewing company, based in Athens, is set to open a new cocktail lounge on Thursday, July 10th.

Staff members who work with Representative Mike Collins, a Republican who represents the 10th District of Georgia, will visit Clarke County on Thursday.

A release from the Clarke County Sheriff’s Office states that on the morning of Tuesday, July 8, jail staff discovered a 31-year-old African American male with an unknown medical issue inside one of the housing units.

A judge has ordered a mental evaluation of the Venezuelan man convicted of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.

The AJC reports Charlton County approved a nearly $50 million agreement with ICE in June the expand the Folkston Processing Center from 1,100 detainees to nearly 3,000.

In the program, Limited Licensed Legal Practitioners would be authorized to give legal assistance to landlords and tenants and people with consumer-debt issues.