Gerald Couch News Today

The sheriff provided an update on search efforts, almost two weeks intro her disappearance.

Maria Gomez-Perez has been missing for two week after disappearing from her Gainesville home one morning. Officials are hoping the $30,000 reward will help them find her safely.

Maria Gomez-Perez was last seen at her home on Westside Drive off Pearl Nix Parkway around 10 a.m. on May 29.

Maria Gomez-Perez was last seen at her home on Westside Drive off Pearl Nix Parkway around 10 a.m. on May 29.

The Hall County Sheriff's Office held a press conference Tuesday afternoon to talk about the desperate search for missing 12-year-old Maria Gomez Perez.

With 83.9% of the precincts tallied, Gerald Couch won the Republican primary for Hall sheriff in a landslide, holding off challenger Jim Hammock Jr. Couch received 73.5% of the vote, with Hammock taking 26.5%.

Students at Lanier College and Career Academy and East Hall High School will have new K9s roaming the halls with them when school starts on August 4.

Avonlea Holtzclaw was trying to cross U.S. 23 in a Ford Explorer Sunday afternoon when a driver going northbound hit her. Her children were inside the SUV.

“What can you say when someone loses his entire family?” the sheriff said.

Five people are dead, including the wife and two young children of a Hall County, Georgia, deputy, following a fiery multivehicle wreck along a busy highway in Habersham County on