(GA. NEWS NETWORK)
*Gwinnett County school employees won’t be receiving proposed one-time $1.000 retention payments. The district advised employees this week that the state didn’t include the funding for the school system. Gwinnett also does not have enough money to pay for the supplements alone. Teachers are still supposed to receive a $1,000 salary increase in the 2027 fiscal year budget.
*DeKalb County Schools is paying up for unpaid employee benefits. The AJC reports the district has agreed to pay the state just over $1.2 million for payment variances dating back several years.
*A Macon postal employee is accused of stealing mail. Dana Wilson was arrested yesterday while on her delivery route for four counts of theft by taking. The 40-year-old is being held in jail without bond.
*An illegal alien from Mexico who was twice convicted of drug trafficking charges and twice deported in back and in trouble with the law again. Gerardo Miranda Mendoza faces new federal meth distribution and immigration charges after the seizure of more than 440 pounds of the drug from a vehicle in Conyers.