By Tara DeRock Mahoney
Senior Staff Writer

    Last week, federal Food and Drug Administration officials cautioned consumers to avoid peanut butter products from the Peanut Corp. of America because of concerns regarding potential salmonella poisoning.

By Tara DeRock Mahoney
Senior Staff Writer

    Downtown Madison, with its heavy car and truck traffic, can be difficult to navigate for pedestrians. But people on foot may have gotten a little safer last week, as the Georgia Department of Transportation installed new call buttons and pedestrian crosswalk signals at several intersections.

By Meg Ferrante
Staff Writer

Suicidal man wanted in stabbing

By Patrick Yost
Editor

    A frantic phone call from a Newborn Road resident led Morgan County and state authorities on a brief manhunt for a man who said he had stabbed a man in Atlanta and was now going to kill himself.

By Tara DeRock Mahoney
Senior Staff Writer

As it happens, maybe they can keep it up forever.

Last month’s downturn in the hospital’s financial picture—the first in nearly a year—was, it turns out, an error.

By Brandon Park
Staff Writer

The Morgan County Board of Education kicked off its 2009 calendar year Monday with the introduction and welcome of its newest member Keith Howard.

Howard replaces Jimmy Paxon, who spent eight years as a board member.