Lee Darragh, the District Attorney for the Northeastern Judicial Circuit, has appointed veteran prosecutor Kelley Robertson as the Chief Assistant District Attorney for the circuit.
Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday the state will spend another $125 million to increase staffing at hospitals amid a surge in coronavirus cases that has forced them to turn patients away.
Test scores fell for Georgia students last year in the wake of the pandemic, amid questions about what the scores mean with few students taking the standardized tests in some districts.
It's been almost two weeks since an arson fire at a Forsyth County house led to the injuries of three firefighters, leaving one of them hospitalized with serious burns.
Two elementary schools and one high school in the Hall County School District will ask students and staff to mask up for a couple of weeks, starting Tuesday, Aug. 17.