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A 34-year-old man has been charged with attempted rape after he allegedly tried to break into an Arcade home and tried to choke a 12-year-old girl. Jeffrey Tingle, Arcade, is being held in the Jackson County Jail following the Dec. 14 incident in Fowlers Mobile Home Park on Athens Highway where authorities say he climbed through an unlocked ... [Full Story »] 

Plans to locate a Walmart store in Jefferson will be unveiled by the company at a meeting in January. Walmart officials will host a town hall meeting at the Jefferson Civic Center at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 8. It will be in a “question and answer” format with interested citizens invited to attend. Wolverton & Associates, the company ... [Full Story »] 

Two men were arrested on warrant charges in Jackson County on Dec. 8 after a deputy ran the license tag number of a 1977 Ford truck on Plainview Road that appeared to be driven by Santa Claus. The deputy spotted a white male with a long beard wearing a red Santa Claus cap and a dark sleeveless shirt, an incident reported filed at the Jackson ... [Full Story »] 

Contractors working on Jefferson City Schools’ building projects are fine-tuning plans for the construction of the new gymnasium, with the bid phase planned through the next two months. Brian Daniel, president of Carroll Daniel Construction Co., told the board that he expects bids will be let within weeks for the high school facility, which ... [Full Story »] 

TO THOSE around the state, this might register as a top-notch upset. To those inside the Jefferson locker room, this was a team fulfilling its destiny. The number one team in the state just happened to be standing in the way. The Dragons (14-1) thumped top-ranked and defending state champ Calhoun 31-14 in the grand Georgia Dome setting Saturday ... [Full Story »]