Latest Georgia Headlines
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People Moves: Chubb Names Georgia-Based Booker, Meyer to EVP Roles; Skipper Joins Palomar; The Villages Adds Dooley
Aug 25 2021 // Chubb Chubb announced leadership appointments within its North America Property business unit and in its wholesale excess and surplus lines division, Westchester. Matt Booker has been appointed Executive Vice President,...
Georgia Officers to Train to Draw Blood From Drivers Suspected of DUI
Aug 25 2021 // A new grant will be used to train Georgia law enforcement officers to draw blood from drivers suspected of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, state officials said. The Georgia Governor’s Office of...
One Dead in Mount Vernon, Georgia Fire
Aug 17 2021 // Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King announced that Ricky Bell, 57, was killed in a Montgomery County fire around 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday, August 11. Commissioner King’s Fire Investigations Unit...
Contract Worker at Georgia Perdue Farms Plant Fatally Electrocuted
Aug 11 2021 // A contract worker at a chicken processing plant in Georgia died after he was electrocuted while cleaning at the Perdue Farms facility, officials said. The Macon Telegraph reported that 23-year-old Antonio Ramirez was found...
Georgia Official Indicted After Interfering in Fatal Accident Investigation
Aug 9 2021 // A south Georgia elected official has been indicted on felony and misdemeanor charges after police said he interfered in the investigation of a fatal accident in June. WALB-TV reports a Crisp County grand jury returned the...
Georgia Fire to 81-Year-Old Property Ruled Arson
Aug 5 2021 // Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King announced that a Putnam County fire was intentionally set and has been ruled an act of Arson. The fire occurred on Grand Avenue at approximately 3:19 A.M. on July...
Georgia Sheriff Faces Additional Charge of Violating Civil Rights at Clayton County Jail
Aug 5 2021 // An Atlanta-area sheriff is facing an additional charge in a federal prosecution accusing him of violating the civil rights of people in his agency’s custody by ordering that they be strapped into a restraint chair...
Shipwreck Cleanup Leaks Oil Onto Popular Georgia Beach
Aug 4 2021 // More oil gushed into the water Monday from the remains of an overturned cargo ship being dismantled along the coast of Georgia, where dozens of workers were still busy cleaning up thick bands of blackened sand from a...
Documents Reveal Extent of 2019 Georgia Coast Cargo Shipwreck
Aug 3 2021 // When the giant cargo ship began to tip over off the Georgia coast, harbor pilot Jonathan Tennant found himself on his side, screaming orders in the darkness while flying debris that felt like gravel pelted him. After much...
Jury Convicts Suspended Georgia Commissioner Beck on Fraud, Laundering Charges
Aug 2 2021 // Jurors convicted suspended Georgia insurance commissioner Jim Beck on 37 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering and tax fraud charges. The jury needed about an hour and 20 minutes to return the guilty...
Officials Propose $1M Fine for Georgia Nitrogen Leak That Killed 6
Jul 27 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials are proposing nearly $1 million in fines against four companies following a liquid nitrogen leak in January that killed six workers at a northeast Georgia poultry processing plant. U.S....
Jury Convicts Suspended Georgia Commissioner Beck on Fraud, Laundering Charges
Jul 22 2021 // Jurors convicted suspended Georgia insurance commissioner Jim Beck on 37 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering and tax fraud charges. The jury needed about an hour and 20 minutes to return the guilty...
Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck Takes Stand at Fraud Trial
Jul 22 2021 // Georgia’s suspended insurance commissioner testified at his federal fraud trial Tuesday, saying he oversaw valuable work for his former employer and that hundreds of thousands of dollars that flowed to an entity he...
Witness Says Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Used Arson Money to Buy Campaign Signs
Jul 18 2021 // Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck improperly took money from the private insurer he led and used it to buy campaign signs when the Republican ran for office in 2018, a witness testified Friday in...
Columbus, Georgia To Pay $500,000 To Settle 2017 Police Custody Death
Jul 15 2021 // A local government in Georgia agreed Tuesday to pay $500,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a Hispanic man who died in a struggle with police officers 2017. Columbus Council members met in closed session and...
Trial Underway For Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck
Jul 14 2021 // Prosecutors want jurors to conclude that suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck was running a $2 million scam to bilk money from the property insurer he led before being elected. Defense attorneys say Beck was...
Suspended Georgia Insurance Commissioner To Go On Trial In Theft Case
Jul 12 2021 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck will go trial this week on charges that he swindled his former employer out of $2 million to pay personal bills and pump money into his 2018 campaign. The Atlanta...
Columbia County, Georgia Fire Ruled Arson
Jul 9 2021 // A recent fire In Columbia County, Georgia has been ruled arson, according to Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John F. King’s Fire Investigations Unit. The fire occurred on Sullivan Hartfield Road in Evans and...
Tropical Storm Elsa Leaves One Dead in Florida, Several Injured at Georgia Navy Base
Jul 9 2021 // Tropical Storm Elsa was carving a destructive and soaking path up the East Coast after killing at least one person in Florida and spinning up a tornado at a Georgia Navy base that flipped recreational vehicles upside-down...
Georgia Warehouse Managers Delayed Reporting Fire
Jun 30 2021 // Managers of a burning warehouse, which rapidly became so engulfed that flames threatened nearby homes, waited a day before calling the local fire department for help, Georgia state investigators said in a report. A giant...
