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Survey indicates tornadoes in Walton, Oglethorpe counties on Monday By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team Published  ATLANTA - Monday's total tornado count in Georgia is up to four after the National Weather Service confirmed two EF-0 tornados touched down in Oglethorpe and Walton counties on Monday.  This update comes after the National Weather Service said slightly stronger EF-1 tornadoes were confirmed in Douglas and Fulton counties.  The Walton County tornado lasted less than three minutes, according to a survey, and landed in a rural area. It was approximately the width of two football fiel...

Vaccine administered - Pfizer, both doses I went to the Habersham County mass vaccine site for both doses. I signed up on the MyVaccineGeorgia website, which was super easy. The hardest part was figuring out with the two friends I went with what time worked for all of us. The mass sites are drive-through, so we didn't have to leave the car and just brought the QR codes from our online registrations. We went through, then waited in the parking lot for 20-30 minutes in case of any immediate side effects. The site was a lot busier for our first doses, so it took maybe half an hour or 45 minutes ...

Three men from the Athens area were arrested in the past two weeks on charges of sexual exploitation of children.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested a former Oglethorpe County Sheriff’s deputy Thursday on two counts of aggravated assault stemming from a traffic stop in Athens-Clarke County, according to a

Georgia deputy arrested, charged for allegedly shooting at car he pulled over Jonathan Raymond © Getty Images/iStockphoto Police lights A Georgia sheriff's deputy has been arrested, charged with aggravated assault and evidently fired for allegedly shooting at a car he pulled over and hit. According to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, 35-year-old Michael Norton Davis, described as a former Oglethorpe County Sheriff's deputy, faces two counts of aggravated assault for the April 12 incident. The GBI said Davis attempted to pull over a 27-year-old Athens man on Hwy. 78 in O...