(GA. NEWS NETWORK)
*A revitalization plan is in place at the site of a former notorious Georgia mental health hospital once known as the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum. WGXA reports the Ambryo Design Group bought eight-acres of land and three buildings of the Central State Hospital in Milledgeville in late October. The architecture firm wants to invest 40-million-dollars to turn it into a hotel, conference center, housing and an amphitheater. The hospital was once the largest mental health hospital in the country.
*Over $360,000 in illegal drugs seized in west-central Georgia. Muscogee Co. Sheriff Greg Countryman says his 30-day October operation also produced 12 arrests, 30 guns and over 330 grams of fentanyl – enough fentanyl to kill 165,000 adults. Total seizures come to over $1.3 million in contraband.
*An Athens teen is behind bars for allegedly murdering his own grandmother in a church. Police were called to Smith Chapel Holiness Church in Athens last week after 73-year-old Ollie Hamilton was found dead in the church. Investigators now say they found evidence that links Hamilton’s 17-year-old grandson Jadynn Hamilton to the killing. Police say the motive for the murder is unclear.