Firefighters do more than just put out fires -- they also respond to 9-1-1 calls when police can’t make it. But nationwide, employing firefighters has been a challenge while calls for service have gone up.
A nonprofit organization dedicated to land conservation has acquired two parcels of land in Middle Georgia that will support efforts to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds as Georgia’s first national park.
Bibb County Sheriff David Davis said in a news release that 53-year-old Joey Fournier was captured about 65 miles away from the jail in Bibb County just before noon Saturday.
Authorities said the second of four men who escaped from a central Georgia jail last month has been captured. The Bibb County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that a team of local, state and federal law enforcement officers arrested 25-year-old Marc Kerry Anderson just before 3 p.m. Friday at an apartment complex in Atlanta.
Federally funded summer meal programs, like the one run by the Bibb County School District in Macon, fill the gap during for families experiencing food insecurity.
Fourteen Georgia counties opened polling places over the weekend Nov. 26 and Nov. 27, with statewide early voting starting Nov. 28 and ending the Friday before the Dec. 6 runoff election for U.S. Senate.