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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...
Danny Is No Longer a Tropical Storm as It Moves Over Georgia
Jun 29 2021 // The National Hurricane Center has withdrawn yesterday’s tropical storm warning. Tropical Storm Danny has weakened as it travels inland over Georgia and is no longer classified as a tropical cyclone. The remnants of...
Georgia Hospital System Still Recovering From Ransomware Attack
Jun 24 2021 // A coastal Georgia hospital system is still struggling to recover from a ransomware attack that shut down its computer systems last week. Local news outlets report that the St. Joseph’s/Candler health system, which...
Georgia Fire Marshal Report on Warehouse Fire Cites Pellet Stacks, Low Water Pressure
Jun 22 2021 // The size of wood pellet stacks and low water pressure may have contributed to a spectacular blaze that burned for days in May at a warehouse on the Georgia coast. The Brunswick News reports that Georgia Ports Authority...
Family Sues Georgia Health Center Over Handling of Mentally Disabled Man
Jun 17 2021 // JONESBORO, Ga. — The family of a mentally disabled man is suing a Georgia behavioral health system, saying its employees forced him onto a bus to Atlanta where he wandered the streets and suffered from hypothermia. The...
Georgia Jury Awards $500K to Woman Who Sued Over Sexual Abuse by Pastor
Jun 15 2021 // A Georgia jury has awarded $500,000 to a woman who sued her former pastor, alleging that he had sexually abused her for years, starting when she was 15 years old. Jurors in Columbus found that Lewis Clemons, who led the...
Georgia City Offers $350K to Settle Claim Over Police Takedown of Wrong Man
Jun 14 2021 // Officials of a Georgia city have offered a $350,000 legal settlement to a Black man injured last year when a police officer violently slammed him in the ground, later saying he mistakenly believed the man had an...
Wrongful Death Suit Against 3 Georgia Police Officers to Proceed
Jun 14 2021 // COLUMBUS, Ga. — A federal judge says he isn’t halting a wrongful death lawsuit against three Columbus police officers, despite their concerns that the district attorney is seeking to indict them on criminal...
Businesses Sue MLB for Moving All-Star Game to Protest Georgia Voting Law
Jun 1 2021 // A conservative group representing small businesses has sued Major League Baseball and its players’ union over the decision to move next month’s All-Star Game out of Georgia in response to that state’s new...
Arthur J. Gallagher Acquires Garner & Glover Co. of Georgia
May 19 2021 // Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. has acquired Rome, Georgia-based Garner & Glover Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1874 and operating under its current name since 1926, Garner & Glover...
People Moves: Security First Names Lockhart CFO; Freeland Joins Alliant in Tenn.; SIU Adds Hayes Everett in Georgia
May 18 2021 // Lockhart Named CFO of Florida-Based Security First Insurance Security First Insurance, a private homeowners insurer in Florida, has promoted David Lockhart to chief financial officer, effective June 1. David...
Teams Assess Damage After Fire on Overturned Cargo Ship in Georgia Port
May 17 2021 // A salvage team assessed damage Saturday after a fire was ignited inside the remains of an overturned cargo ship that is being dismantled along the Georgia coast. “The assessment is likely to take several days,”...
Multiple People Hurt in Boat Explosion on Georgia’s Lake Lanier
May 11 2021 // Multiple people were hurt, some seriously, when a boat exploded Sunday on Lake Lanier, authorities said. Game wardens responded around 2:45 p.m. to the Margaritaville gas dock after getting reports that a boat exploded...
