This is your FCA Sports Report, I'm Riva Nash The University of North Georgia softball team has been named the favorite to win the Peach Belt Conference title for the fifth straight year. The Saints finished the 2012 season ranked No. 10 in the nation with a record of 49-10. It was the fourth straight year North Georgia finished with at least 40 or more wins and finished in the top-10 in the nation. The 2013 season will begin this weekend with the…

Jan. 29, 2013 - The Georgia House of Representatives’ Committee on Assignments named State Representative Timothy Barr (R-Lawrenceville) to the Code Revision, Health & Human Services, and Motor Vehicles committees. “I am honored to serve on these distinguished committees for the people of District 103,” said Rep. Barr. The House Committee on Assignments, chaired by House Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge), is charged with making all House…

Jan. 25, 2013 - From the Georgia Department of Labor The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that the preliminary unemployment rate in the Georgia Mountains region rose to 7.6 percent in December, up five-tenths of a percentage point from 7.1 percent in November. The rate was 8.0 percent in December 2011. The rate rose because there were 659 more new claims for unemployment benefits in construction, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing,…

Jan. 25, 2013 - UPDATED: Due to inclement weather some schools and businesses will be closing.     Schools

• Dawson County: Closed
• Habersham County: Closed; all athletic and extracurricular events…
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Jan. 23, 2013 - The Georgia Department of Transportation announces routine maintenance activities planned for this week in Dawson, Forsyth, Gwinnett and Hall Counties. According to GDOT, most activities will only require shoulder or median lane closures. GDOT said, this is a tentative schedule; if emergency response is needed at a crash scene or if emergency repairs are necessary this schedule will change. WHEN: Crews will work Tuesday, January 22…

Jan. 18, 2013 - There is a plan in the works that would create a constitutional amendment to phase out the Georgia State Income Tax. State Sen. Steve Gooch co-sponsored this plan called, Senate Resolution 8, in the State Senate today. The resolution was proposed by Sen. Josh McKoon of Columbus. Sen. Gooch said, “I have given my support to this resolution because I believe that Georgia citizens deserve to take home more of their own money. This…

Jan. 17, 2013 - Yesterday morning the state’s top policymakers gave their views on its toughest issues at the Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s annual Eggs & Issues breakfast in Atlanta. One day before his State of the State address, Gov. Nathan Deal laid out his view on health care, as well as economic development, education, transportation and ethics. But the cost of health care and health insurance was the overriding theme of Deal’s speech,…

Jan. 17, 2013 - The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Georgia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 8.6 percent in December, that's up one-tenth of a percentage point from 8.5 percent in November, but it is much better than the rate a year ago, which was 9.4 percent. Georgia’s labor force grew by 4,159, reaching 4,804,459 in December, its highest level since February 2009. The number of long-term unemployed workers…

Jan. 15, 2013 - After nearly five years arrests have been made in connection with the 2008 robbery of Northeast Georgia Bank at Banks Crossing. 39 year old Darris Antoine Workman of Greensboro, North Carolina is now being housed in the Banks County Jail charged with robbery. Sheriff Carolton Speed said Banks County picked Workman up in Greensboro where he was arrested for the robbery. Banks County officials learned Yesterday afternoon that another…

Jan. 14, 2013 - Former Gainesville City Manager Bryan Shuler died Friday at his home in Moultrie Georgia. According to the Moultrie Observer, Shuler was 55 years old and died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. According to the Gainesville time, Shuler was a native of Charleston, South Carolina and came to Gainesville after local public sector jobs in South Carolina and Delaware. His first job in Gainesville was that of Gainesville-Hall County…