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Each April, Arnold Blum watches the champions ceremony from the Masters on television and smiles just a little bit. green jacket, Blum finds himself glancing into the background at a picture in Augusta National Golf Club's Butler Cabin.
Arnold Blum plays cards at Idle HourThe office coordinator for Houston Healthcare's Emergency Medical Services is attempting to unseat the 28-year incumbent in the part-time Houston County coroner post.
The office coordinator for Houston Healthcare's Emergency Medical Services is attempting to unseat the 28-year incumbent in the part-time Houston County coroner post.
The few Robert Nowak campaign signs explain why a Vermont cellist-turned-Bibb County elementary school teacher would take on a three-term incumbent for a seat in Congress.
Jim Marshall has never been in a safe congressional district.
A 16-year-old Macon boy was struck and killed by lightning Thursday at a youth camp in the mountains of southern Colorado. Landon Tate Dillard was riding bicycles with the camp director and other campers near Westcliffe when a storm hit the region and he was struck by lightning, authorities in Custer County said.
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign says he will visit Georgia on Tuesday for a town hall meeting to discuss the effects of the economy on families.
It's normally a no-brainer in Laurens County to vote in the Democratic primary for local elections, but this year there is a distinct Republican influence.
Three people have been killed and another injured in a crash involving a wrong-way driver on Interstate 20 west of Atlanta.
Co-owners of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant say they plan to maintain their proportionate share of ownership in two proposed 1,100-megawatt nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle.
Cobb County Police detectives say an Atlanta police officer shot and killed an unarmed security guard at an apartment complex, and that the officer faces charges of murder and aggravated assault.
Macon still is looking for a chief administrative officer, a search that has gone on a bit longer than city officials first expected as some candidates pull themselves from the mix.
As long as Wrightsville has had a Fourth of July celebration, turtle racing has been a part it, reckons native Ron Blaxton.
On the cusp of a recent crackdown by law enforcement on massage parlors employing suspected prostitutes, licensed massage therapists in Macon say their profession is getting a bad rap.
With controversy swirling about Macon's massage parlors, Macon City Council President Pro Tem James Timley said the council's Public Safety Committee needs to take a field trip to the spas to gain firsthand knowledge of exactly what goes on there.
As donations continue to come in to help Middle Georgians whose homes were damaged by tornadoes May 11, a local company also has announced a donation of $50,000 to help small businesses recover, too.
Two Republicans will face off in the July 15 primary for the Bibb County Commission District 3 seat.
Police say a 17-year-old boy drowned in Lake Lanier while wading with friends.
Two Republicans and a Democrat are looking to succeed retiring Johnny Floyd for the state House District 147 seat.
A teenager from Columbia, S.C., who was hit and killed by a roller coaster at a Georgia amusement park will be remembered at a funeral service a week after the accident.
A 28-year-old construction worker is recovering after he was trapped in a 20-foot trench. Atlanta Fire Capt. Stephen Hill said the accident happened Thursday at a site in Midtown. He said the man was laying pipes when he was pinned by a section of pipes that had been lowered into the trench. Firefighters were able to rescue the man.
A record 2,255 wood-stork nests found in Georgia during the spring is prompting cautious optimism among state wildlife biologists monitoring the endangered birds.
The Lula Post Office has been renamed for a fallen soldier from Georgia.
A federal appeals court says Georgia must pay $10.5 million to attorneys who filed a lawsuit that prompted changes to the state's foster care system.
Over the top of her handlebars, Debbie Rudd can see the narrow road as it twists up the steep hill.
