In Georgia, Voices of Reassurance
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COLUMBUS, Ga. As the Rotarians dined on fried chicken, Sen. Johnny Isakson shared a few thoughts about Iraq.
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By Bonnie Rochman, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 10--KINSTON -- KINSTON -- When Frank Gaskill was a boy in Philadelphia, his parents had to entrust his care to their church for a number of years. The Depression raged, and they couldn't afford to rear him.
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STUART, Fla. Sept. 2, 2004 - With some homes still swaddled in blue tarp and the deaths from Hurricane Charley still fresh in their minds, Southeastern residents once again warily eyed a menacing hurricane
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Russom Ghebrai walks the corridors of Greater Southeast Community Hospital with quiet authority. Seventy hours a week, he dons the white coat of his profession and attends to patients on the fringes of medical care.
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With an epic drought gripping the region, Georgia lawmakers announced plans Thursday for a network of state reservoirs, while the governors of Alabama and Florida warned that Georgia's consumption threatens their downstream states.
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MACON, Georgia  - With its painful history of slavery and segregation, it is easy to presume how Southern white voters will respond to Barack Obama, who would be the country's first black president, but observers say simple assumptions about politics in the region would be wrong.
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Mikhail Saakashvili was sworn in to a second presidential term Sunday, pledging to mend fences with Russia, push Georgia closer to the West and bring prosperity to the ex-Soviet republic troubled by a divisive election that opponents claim was rigged.
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According to officials in the state of Georgia, one solution to a drought gripping the normally soggy Southeast is to take up the battle cry of "Man versus Mussel."
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By Harry Franklin, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Sep. 21--Four residents have filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction to keep Cusseta-Chattahoochee County from creating a police department.
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At a time when the Army National Guard is falling far short of its recruiting goals nationally, Georgia officials say they are having no such problem.
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Advocates for the mental ill are trying to secure voting rights while concern mounts about the risks of voting by people with conditions like dementia.
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TELAVI, Georgia -- Before his helicopter touches down, Mikheil Saakashvili already has his hand on the door handle. A bodyguard leans forward but can't restrain him long; within seconds, Misha, as Georgia's former president and now campaigning candidate is informally known, has jumped out, ducked...
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Officials are promoting a corner of their state as a good place for financial companies to build backup facilities in case of a disaster.
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By Kristi Dyes  kdyes@@dailyherald.com  During a night on the town last fall at a local restaurant, Lynn Bruesewitz struck up a conversation with a stranger.  The man was a musician from Louisiana who had experienced first- hand the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina.
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COLE CITY HOLLOW, Tenn. -- Nearly two centuries after a flawed survey placed Georgia's northern border just short of the Tennessee River, some legislators are thirsting to set the record straight.
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HILTON HEAD, SC  Hurricane Charley demonstrated last weekend why some of the nation&#39;s most vulnerable folk - the ill, the disabled, and the frail elderly - should think twice before taking up residence in the most dangerous parts of ...
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TBILISI, Georgia, Jan. 6 -- Supporters of Georgia's former president Mikheil Saakashvili began celebrating late Saturday as preliminary exit polls indicated he would narrowly avoid a runoff in this former Soviet republic's presidential election.