State law requires local governments to be open and transparent.

Stacii Adams calls himself the "Boss of Blues."

ATLANTA — After watching his bright son struggle to read, Matt Gallegly felt a kind of relief when he learned the reason: His son, Jack, was dyslexic.

Georgia lawmakers passed a long-awaited hate-crimes bill that covers sexual orientation, and then they passed another measure that would ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

VALDOSTA — Kerry Quinn studies tragic incidents at other schools as part of his efforts to keep Lowndes County students and faculty safe.

ATLANTA – A record-setting pay raise for teachers and a $150 million plan to replace the state’s aging voting machines that currently lack a paper trail.

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp says he remains open to ideas on how to push high-speed internet into areas of the state that lack it.

VALDOSTA — Councilwoman Sandra Tooley ran for office to get things done.

QUITMAN, Ga. — Molly Radford signed up for the fastest internet she could get in rural Brooks County, where her family has owned farmland straddling the Georgia-Florida line for more than a century.

A developed downtown is important for any city, no matter its size. 

The death of a Milledgeville man whose naked body was found lying in the yard of a residence on the 400 block of East Franklin Street last Friday morning remains under investigation by local authorities.

By THOMAS LYNN

Oct. 31

University, college and technical school students have been strolling across their campuses for at least a month now adjusting to post-secondary life and coming a few steps closer to their future careers. 

VALDOSTA — Erin Gaskins became a counselor because she wanted to be at the frontlines of helping young people. 

Vietnam veteran Thomas D. Watson drove a tour bus for years. He was always away from home, on the road somewhere.

Dirt and construction equipment fill what will be a walkway and bleachers.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part SunLight series. The second part will publish in the Wednesday, July 11 edition.

Alma Young was born at the border between worlds.

Kindall Keyek grew up in Orlando, Fla., and spent a fair amount of time around amusement parks.

The heart is the engine that drives the body. 

When local residents throw their refuse into a recycling bin, their bottles, aluminum cans and magazines begin a journey that can span hundreds of miles. 

One thing that anyone who works with victims of sexual assault is quick to point out is that the vast majority of sexual assaults are not reported.

According to statistics gathered from the U.S. Department of Justice, incidents of sexual violence have fallen nationally by more than half in the past 23 years.

“Government in general is just a monster. … You can never fill its appetite,” Ricky Gamble said. “The more you give it, the more it will spend.”

The people's right to speak their minds to government can be considered a good thing:

There have been four unsolved murder cases in Baldwin County since 2013, and even though none of them are termed cold cases, they remain a top priority for detectives with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.

Grant Green went missing from Lowndes County in September 1993.

Eleven years and four months.

Homeless, three kids, everything she owned in the back of her truck, Tawanna Hines found herself at the Live Oak Housing Authority for the third time.

Linda Patelski said it’s hardest with the healthy ones.

Prison cells across America are full of men and women who have been there once, twice, three times before.

When Melvin Palmer set foot in South Georgia a few years ago, he had just spent 30 years in a Detroit prison for being a serial rapist convicted 10 times over.

It was the perfect spring day.

There was a time — back before 10-year-olds had smartphones and iPads — when children would put on a sheriff's star and strap on a six-shooter cap pistol to be the "cop" in a game of Cops and Robbers.

In the late 1940s, a young black boy boarded a bus headed from Georgia to Birmingham, Alabama.