*A mixed-use development consisting of 109 acres is planned by a Gainesville company in Habersham County. Anchored by a 99,000-square-foot supermarket, the $55 million investment would also include retail, medical, and restaurant components and more. It would be located on Georgia 365 at Duncan Bridge Road.
*A former St. Simons Island dentist will be sentenced in May after being convicted Friday in Gainesville of murdering her boyfriend in the Lake Lanier home they shared. Suzanne Mericle was arrested last March in the shooting death of James David Barron.