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A number of students in Hall have been charged with threatening local schools after Apalachee shooting. Here’s how authorities are handling the cases
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Judge Joe Diaz in his office at the Hall County Courthouse in Gainesville, on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. - photo by David Barnes
Ben Anderson
The Times
Updated: Oct 16, 2024, 7:42 PM
Published: Oct 16, 2024, 5:57 PM
In his nearly nine years as Hall County’s juvenile court judge, Joe Diaz says he has never seen so many students charged with threatening violence against local schools in such a short period of time.
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Update: I-985 southbound reopens after closing due to separate vehicle fire, crash
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Nick Watson
The Times
Updated: Apr 5, 2025, 12:17 AM
Published: Apr 4, 2025, 10:14 PM
Lanes have reopened after a vehicle fire and crash Friday, April 4, caused both southbound lanes of Interstate 985 to be blocked in the Flowery Branch area.
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