The father of a young woman killed by a train on the set of a movie about Gregg Allman said the family is suing the singer and filmmakers as part of a “wakeup call” to make Hollywood safer. Sarah Jones’ …
Republican candidates for Georgia’s open U.S. Senate seat debated Saturday whether Congress has pushed hard enough for deepening the Savannah harbor and whether the federal government should keep giving homeowners a break on flood insurance. All seven contenders seeking the …
A federal judge this week threw out race discrimination claims by a former Savannah restaurant manager whose lawsuit against Paula Deen has already cost the celebrity cook a valuable chunk of her culinary empire. Lisa Jackson sued Deen and her …
Before Georgia began its current streak of 114 years without a major hurricane, the state’s coastline was a fairly frequent target in the 1800s. At least six big storms, some of them responsible for violent death tolls, pounded the Georgia …
Before Georgia began its current streak of 114 years without a major hurricane, the state’s coastline was a fairly frequent target in the 1800s. At least six big storms, some of them responsible for violent death tolls, pounded the Georgia …
Georgia cyclists are celebrating what they say is the biggest improvement to the state’s bike safety laws in decades. A new traffic law requires cars and trucks to keep at least 3 feet of distance from bicycles when passing them …
Imperial Sugar has agreed to pay more than $4 million in fines for safety violations at its Georgia refinery where a dust explosion killed 14 workers in 2008, federal regulators said. The settlement with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health …
The Atlantic hurricane season ended this Monday with barely a whimper: Not a single hurricane came ashore in the United States. Since June, when the season began, just nine named storms developed. Only three of them became hurricanes, and those …
Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said there may be “significant” penalties proposed when federal workplace safety regulators release their findings after investigating a dust explosion that killed 13 workers at a company sugar refinery in Georgia. With the investigation into …
Two days after a massive explosion and fire devastated a Georgia sugar refinery, John Calvin Butler Jr. and his younger brother, Jamie were still in a medically induced coma . Company officials have refused to speculate on when the plant …
