The winter storm has put Georgia State Patrol to work, responding to crashes and calls from across the state, department data shows.

According to a Facebook post, the crash happened near US-82 near Tift Avenue. The vehicle hit a pedestrian and left the scene. GSP told WALB that the victim, identified as 81-year-old Johnnie McKinnon, of Tifton, died from his injuries a few hours later at the hospital.

A school district in Georgia is mourning the loss of two middle school students who died in an ATV crash over the weekend.

Georgia Republican State Senator Colton Moore was arrested on Thursday after fighting to be let into the chambers.

Georgia’s House speaker says he’s lifting his ban on a state senator entering the House chamber. The Friday decision came a day after Sen.

Georgia State Patrol (GSP) reports as of Thursday, Jan. 23 , there has a total of 370 auto accidents. GSP reports 3,240 total number of calls for service and 532 motor assists. WALB has reached to get the total number of accidents that happened in South Georgia and were the any fatalities.

A Georgia state senator who was previously banned from the state House chamber has been arrested after he tried to enter the chamber for the governor’s state of the state speech.

As 13WMAZ reported last night, accidents and hazardous roadways kept drivers stranded for hours. A jackknifed tractor-trailer on the southbound lane and a separate crash involving two tractor-trailers and a car in the northbound lane blocked traffic for hours.

Senator Colton Moore, of Dade County, was arrested on Thursday after he defied the order of Georgia House Speaker Jon Burns that he would not be allowed in for a joint legislative session in Atlanta.

A Georgia state senator has been taken into custody after he tried to defy an order banning him from the House chambers during Gov. Brian Kemp's State of the State Address.

A Republican northwest Georgia senator was arrested Thursday after he refused to abide by a ban on entering the House chamber made by the speaker last year.

Georgia State Patrol officers arrested Republican Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore for trying to enter the House chambers after House Speaker Jon Burns banned him from the floor.