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An eight-legged creature that escaped in the cargo hold of a passenger flight from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International grounded the plane and sent passengers onto another flight.

A home for special needs adults gets the go-ahead from the Hall County Commission.

Georgia's coastal seaports plan $142 million in expansion and improvement projects in the next year to keep pace with faster than expected growth, the ports' chief executive said Thursday.

Piedmont College music major Mitchell Auger of Alpharetta will present his senior voice recital at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 6 in the college Chapel in Demorest.

Karen Canupp of Jefferson has been named to a new term on the Georgia Board of Optometry.

Jacob Sims has joined The Fockele Garden Company as its new Maintenance Production Manager.

The Junior League of Gainesville-Hall County’s Annual Thrift Sale is set for October 3.

The White County man known for his blue rooster pottery has died.

The unemployment rate in the Northeast Georgia region in August was 5.6 percent, according to numbers released Thursday morning by the Georgia Department of Labor.

Brenau University’s School of Nursing hosted the annual Masters in the Art of Nursing program Wednesday, celebrating contributions of six longtime professional caregivers from northeast Georgia.