Gov. Brian Kemp's last budget proposal would stockpile billions for any rough economy one of his successors might encounter while also asking lawmakers to return over $1 billion to taxpayers. In his eighth and final state of the state address Thursday, Kemp said his budget proposal to the Georgia General Assembly will give average rebates of $250 per individual taxpayer plus a fifth ...

Mrs. Jean Harden Moore, age 86, of Lyons, died on Monday, January 12, 2026, at Select Medical Hospital in Savannah following an extended illness. Mrs. Moore was a lifelong resident of Toombs County. She worked at Lyons Manufacturing for 10 years, Max Smith’s Department Store in Vidalia for 12 years, and she was a CNA at Metter Nursing Home and Toombs Nursing Home for 9 years. She was...

continued from page ICE to the Gestapo and warned of a creeping police state. McLaughlin dismissed those claims as reckless and legally unfounded. “They’re clearly legally illiterate,” she said. “If people don’t like ICE enforcing the rule of law ... these politicians should change the law. They can lobby Congress to change the law.” Demonizing law enforcement, McLaughl...