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CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA)— A Clearwater church is out more than $736,000 after a contractor who was supposed to build a new church used the funds for bills, vehicles, and vacations, the Clearwater Police Department announced. According to an arrest report, the Unity Church of Clearwater had a construction contract with the contractor Custom Building Solutions […]

ATLANTA - Fall color is spreading across North Georgia, and the region could see peak foliage over the next couple of weeks. Higher elevations are expected to approach peak within a week or two, while much of northern Georgia could see peak color during the first week of November. Casey...

UNION COUNTY, N.C. — A man was arrested after deputies pursued a stolen BMW on Highway 218, according to the Union County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said they tried to stop the white BMW near the intersection of Highways 601 and 218 as it traveled toward Mint Hill. The driver did not stop.

South Carolina has said goodbye to another trio of familiar dining rooms, following September’s closure of a longtime Columbia sushi favorite. From a waterfront splurge in North Myrtle Beach to…

Thomas Brady was sentenced to 20 months in prison for ordering subordinates to perform repairs at his home. BY: UNSPLASH A former Massachusetts jail official will spend 20 months in federal prison after using his authority to obtain free home repairs from subordinates and attempting to interfere with an investigation. Thomas Brady, 55, of Norwood, received his sentence Monday in Boston after pleading guilty to witness tampering and using interstate facilities to commit bribery and...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A bitter inheritance dispute between three sisters involving a multimillion-dollar family trust will return to court after the Appellate Court of Maryland ruled that a Howard County jury was instructed to apply the wrong legal standard when deciding whether one sister improperly interfered with the others’ expected inheritance.

The 2007 “abandonment ordinance” allowed landlords to lock out evicted renters and keep their clothes, furniture and other items. A Baltimore ordinance pitched as a way to keep city neighborhoods cleaner will wind up costing Baltimore taxpayers $11 million after federal courts ruled it violated the constitutional rights of evicted renters.

An $8.9 billion plan to expand metro Atlanta's toll-lane network on Interstate 285's congested north end could spark years of construction and community impacts in the quest for congestion relief. Why it matters: The I-285 East Express Lanes project kicks off one of the Georgia Department of Transportation's biggest to date and allows a private consortium to collect toll revenue for half a century. Driving the news: The State Transportation Board on Oct. 15 approved the selection of Top End Mobi

A Georgia State Patrol trooper sitting at a gore point on I-20 near the I-75/85 split in Atlanta watched a black Suzuki Hayabusa weave through traffic without signaling, switched on his lights and siren, and the rider's answer was the next exit. What followed, according to the dashcam video, was a run through the Downtown Connector's ramps and surface streets that ended with the Hayabusa on a cruiser's hood.

In the days after Morton Salt closed its mine in Fairport Harbor, many in Portage County may be faced with a question this winter: What to do if there is a shortage of road salt? "That's the million dollar question, isn't it," said Tom Klejka, general superintendent of the Portage County Engineer's Office. Morton safely evacuated employees, with no injuries, and closed the mine following the "discovery of a significant inflow of water in the mine" on Oct. 22, according to a company media release