Just months after appearing to put its financial house in order, the county is absorbing a spate of bad economic news, including estimates that it lost as much as $16 million in this year's troubled bond market and that property tax collections could drop another $30 million.

Authorities say a deputy driving an unmarked vehicle struck an ambulance carrying a 70-year-old patient in Naples, causing the ambulance to overturn.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has identified the hunter involved in the shooting of a Conservation Ranger on Thanksgiving afternoon.