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Spring 2025 Lake Living cover winner Morgan Harvill, left, is pictured with his wife, Judy. The magazine cover features a MasterCraft boat on Lake Rabun in Rabun County at the narrows around September 2024. In addition to gracing the cover of Spring 2025 Lake Living, Harvill received $100. (Photo/Megan Horn, The Clayton Tribune)

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Lake Living cover winner captures views from Lake Rabun

News Staff

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

By Megan Horn CNI News Service The North Georgia mountains offer many chances to capture picture-perfect views of wildlife and lakes.

The Hartwell Sun

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New report finds huge increase in cybercrime

Dave Williams - Capitol Beat News Service

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

ATLANTA - Cybercrime is on the rise in Georgia and around the country. Georgia ranked 11th in internet-related complaints last year, up from 13th in 2023, according to the FBI’s newly released Internet Crime Report 2024.

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Georgia law offers homeowners a big tax break, but most probably won’t get much, if any, of it

Ty Tagami – Capitol Beat News Service

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

ATLANTA – Across Georgia last November, voters heartily threw their support behind an amendment to the state constitution that sought to slow the escalation of property taxes.

The Hartwell Sun

Kemp inks tort reform bills

Dave Williams - Capitol Beat News Service

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

ATLANTA - Gov. Brian Kemp signed two tort reform bills Monday that supporters say should reverse a pattern of excessive jury awards they hold responsible for rising liability insurance premiums that are hurting Georgia businesses’ bottom lines.

The Hartwell Sun

House Speaker Burns forms three study committees

Dave Williams - Capitol Beat News Service

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

ATLANTA – Georgia lawmakers will be focusing this summer and fall on some unfinished business left over from this year’s General Assembly session.

The Hartwell Sun

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Authorities seize an amount of fentanyl that could kill every Georgian twice

Ty Tagami – Capitol Beat News Service

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

ATLANTA – Federal law enforcement officials announced a major drug bust Tuesday, seizing more than 100 pounds of fentanyl and arresting 22. The takedown involved two Mexican drug cartels, but two kingpins remain on the loose.

The Hartwell Sun

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New nonprofit targets state energy policies

Dave Williams - Capitol Beat News Service

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

ATLANTA - An energy watchdog launched a nonprofit organization Monday aimed at bringing transparency and accountability to energy regulation in Georgia.

The Hartwell Sun

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Democrats pitch expansion of child tax credit

Ty Tagami – Capitol Beat News Service

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

ATLANTA – The annual federal child tax credit will shrink in half at the end of the year, falling to $1,000 if Congress does not intervene.

The Hartwell Sun

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Legislation targets investors who own vast swaths of Georgia housing stock

Ty Tagami – Capitol Beat News Service

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

ATLANTA – Out-of-state investors own tens of thousands of houses in Georgia, and lawmakers tried to limit the number due to concerns about decaying properties and diminished options for would be homeowners.

The Hartwell Sun

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Georgia Supreme Court considers legal restrictions on gun carry for adults under 21

Ty Tagami – Capitol Beat News Service

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

ATLANTA - Nearly 200 years of legal precedent should not apply to a 20-year-old man who wants to carry a gun, his lawyer argued before the Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday.