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Barring an unexpectedly quick and strong economic recovery, Georgia school officials and parents had better brace themselves for program-killing budget cuts over the next year. Budget-slashing edicts arrive monthly from the governor’s office, ordering furloughs and reducing state payments. On the home front, property tax collections are ... [Full Story »] 

Commerce police are on the lookout for a man who repeatedly tried to entice two juvenile females into his truck Sunday in the area around Willoughby Park. According to the incident report, the two girls were walking on Jefferson Street toward Broad Street when a white male in a hunter green Dodge pickup truck with a white camper waved for the ... [Full Story »] 

The Jackson County Board of Commissioners took action Monday night to help the BJC Medical Center Authority resolve cash flow problems and pay short-term debts. The commissioners agreed to send a letter of guarantee and line of credit to Bank of America on hospital bonds Jackson and Banks counties are already paying. When the bonds were sold, ... [Full Story »]