Hazardous waste site in Macon put on Superfund list

Federal environmental authorities have added two hazardous waste sites in the Southeast to the Superfund National Priorities List.

Superfund is the Enviromental Protection Agency's program that investigates and cleans up complex uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites.

Armstrong World Industries, a ceiling tile manufacturer in Macon, and Horton Iron and Metal, a former fertilizer manufacturer and metal salvage site in Wilmington, N.C., have been added to the list.

Argument between strangers ends in fatal shooting at Greenbriar Mall, police say

Woman’s charges upgraded to murder after girl found in trunk, officials say

At the Cobb jail, a new kind of rehabilitation starts at the horse barn

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UGA to pay $100K H-1B visa fee only ‘in exceptional circumstances’

The University of Georgia could soon limit the number of foreign workers it employs, a result of the $100,000 fee imposed on some H-1B visas.

Georgia judges deal blow to ICE’s new mandatory detention policy

The ruling is a first-of-its-kind to come out of Georgia’s Middle District.

At the Cobb jail, a new kind of rehabilitation starts at the horse barn

Joshua Arp is one of two Cobb County jail detainees taking part of the sheriff’s office new equine therapy program meant to help him stay out of jail.