CLEVELAND, Ga. – White County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a Dahlonega man on New Year’s Day and charged him with battery, following an early morning altercation at a New Year’s Eve party in Cleveland. Deputies arrived at 89 FM Drive at approximately 2:45 a.m. where they were told that James Randall Johnson, 43, of Dahlonega […]
Read More »Cleveland woman charged with stealing checks from nursing home patient
CLEVELAND Ga. – Sherry Jean Brock, 50, of Cleveland, an employee at Friendship Health and Rehab, was arrested Saturday and charged with theft by taking checks that belonged to a patient at the facility. White County Sheriff’s Deputy C.F. Davis was called to the facility to assist Cleveland Police Department in investigating a case of […]
Read More »Cleveland woman charged with simple battery
CLEVELAND, Ga. — White County deputies arrested 32-year-old Catherine Renee Rutter Monday and charged her with simple battery against a person 65 years of age or older. Deputies responded to a domestic dispute call at 1:26 a.m. at 4177 Hwy. 115 East where they spoke to Rutter and 72-year-old Steven Steffunick. According to the incident […]
Read More »Law enforcement in three counties search for man who fled when deputies tried to serve warrants
CLEVELAND, Ga. – Law enforcement agencies are still searching this afternoon for a fugitive wanted in Lumpkin, Dawson and Baldwin counties. White County Sheriff Neal Walden said when his deputies attempted to serve felony and misdemeanor warrants on Jeremiah Wayne Wendt, 39, at his residence on Wauka Mountain Road this morning, an unidentified woman answered […]
Read More »County Commission to hold called meeting Tuesday
CLEVELAND, Ga. – A couple of funding requests will highlight the White County Board of Commissioners called meeting scheduled for Tuesday (Dec. 11) at 8 a.m. The Sautee Nacoochee Community Association will present a request for funding of the official guide and destination map for the historical Sautee Nacoochee Arts and Heritage District. The White […]
Read More »Alto man charged with DUI, hit-and-run in Helen
HELEN, Ga. – An Alto man has been arrested following a hit and run accident Saturday that injured a Helen pedestrian. Christopher Allen Hatter, 41, faces multiple charges after he allegedly struck James Forrest Stephens, 45, of Helen on Hwy. 75 near the intersection of Hamby Street. Stephens was transported by White County EMS to […]
Read More »Cleveland man charged with aggravated assault
CLEVELAND, Ga. – Charles Gregory Tompkins, 46, of Cleveland turned himself in at the White County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 14. Tompkins is charged with aggravated assault with a gun, cruelty to children in the first degree and reckless conduct. According to the Cleveland Police Department report, on Oct. 5, Tompkins “Pulled a firearm on […]
Read More »Kemp to resign as secretary of state at noon today
ATLANTA – Republican Brian Kemp announced that he will officially resign as secretary of state at 11:59 a.m. today and begin the transition to become Georgia’s next governor immediately. Kemp is currently the state’s top elections official. Governor Nathan Deal will then appoint an interim secretary of state who will certify Tuesday’s election in which […]
Read More »BOC honors retired White County teachers
(Pictured front row: Commissioner Terry Goodger, Elaine McCleary, June Collins, Martha Senkbeil, Judy Lovell and Tony Kemp. (Back row) Commissioner Craig Bryant, Chairman Travis Turner, Frank Senkbeil and Lamar Collins.) CLEVELAND, Ga. – The White County Board of Commissioners had a full slate of agenda items to address at Monday’s work session and called meeting. […]
Read More »UPDATE: Fatal three-car crash on Hwy. 115
WHITE COUNTY, Ga. – The Georgia State Patrol has provided additional details on that Monday crash that claimed the life of 51-year-old Margie Milum of Dahlonega. Also injured in the accident on Hwy. 115 was 43-year-old Lawanda Thurmond of Mount Airy and her passenger one-year-old Elliott Crowe of Clarkesville. Both were transported to Northeast Georgia […]
Read More »Kemp Bus Tour stops at Truett McConnell Tuesday
CLEVELAND, Ga. – Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp’s “Road to Victory” bus tour visited the campus of Truett McConnell University, a Christian liberal arts and sciences school in the foothills of the north Georgia mountains, Tuesday morning. Following morning chapel service led by Anthony George, senior associate pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta, in […]
Read More »New 9-1-1 system will bring White County into 21st century
CLEVELAND, Ga. – This new 9-1-1 phone system will bring us into the 21st century, Public Safety Director David Murphy told White County commissioners during the work session on Monday. The new age system Murphy was describing is an AT&T product that comes with a price tag of a little more than $222,000, but it […]
Read More »Cleveland woman injured in collision on Hwy. 11
CLEVELAND, Ga. — A Cleveland woman was injured in a three-car crash Tuesday afternoon on State Road in White County. According to a preliminary report by the Georgia State Patrol, 62-year-old Jennifer Los was slowing her Volvo S40 as she approached a 2013 Ford Focus which had stopped when her vehicle was struck from behind […]
Read More »Cleveland woman arrested for simple battery
CLEVELAND, Ga. – A Cleveland woman was arrested last week and charged with simple battery, driving under the influence and failure to maintain lane. According to the incident report, White County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a 9-1-1 call in reference to a domestic dispute at 378 Heather Way where they were met by Jesse […]
Read More »Commissioners approve new vehicles for sheriff’s office
CLEVELAND, Ga. – The White County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved the purchase of two new replacement vehicles from Jacky Jones Ford for the Sheriff’s Office during a morning called meeting Monday. The two fully-equipped police vehicles are a 2019 Dodge Durango and 2019 Ford Taurus that will replace a 2013 Taurus with 180,000 miles […]
Read More »It’s time for Oktoberfest in Helen
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – It is time once again for White County’s biggest festival – and the world’s biggest beer drinking event — the 48th annual Oktoberfest. Streets in this Alpine city will begin to swell noticeably tomorrow (Sept. 8) when the kickoff parade rolls through town at noon led by grand marshals Uschi and Marcel […]
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