Officials search for missing man at Lake Lanier

BUFORD — Department of Natural Resources rangers and Hall County Sheriff’s Office deputies are set to resume a search for a man who went missing on Lake Lanier.

DNR Spokesman Mark McKinnon tells local media that 57-year-old Jerry Kornmeier was reported missing at 5 p. m. Saturday from the Cocktail Cove area of Lake Lanier. On Sunday, his boat was found adrift in open water.

McKinnon says that officials aren’t sure if Kornmeier is in the water or on land. CHARLESTON, W. Va. ( AP) Both are being searched. When the search resumed Monday, side scan sonar was used.

Richmond County inmate found dead

AUGUSTA — Authorities in east Georgia are investigating the death of an inmate.

The Augusta Chronicle reports that the Richmond County inmate was found dead early Sunday at the Charles B. Webster Detention Center.

Richmond County Coroner Mark Bowen said the cause of death is un- legal to photograph any part of the voting process, and no electronic devices or cellphones are allowed in the voting booth.

She says signs are posted in every West Virginia precinct, and poll workers have been instructed to tell people not to bring devices out while they’re voting. known, and an autopsy is planned.

The inmate’s name wasn’t released Sunday.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is assisting the Richmond County Coroner’s Office with the investigation.

State budget highlights pay raises

ATLANTA — Thousands of state employees will receive pay raises under a state budget Gov. Nathan Deal is set to sign today.

Deal, a Republican, traveled the state Monday to highlight 3 percent rais- es for law enforcement and other state employees and more than $1 billion for roads, bridges and other new construction projects. The $ 23.7 billion budget also includes $300 million intended to let school districts end employee furloughs or give teachers raises.

Deal started the day in his hometown of Gainesville, on the site of a new $42 million campus for Lanier Technical College in Hall County.

The new budget kicks in July 1.

The Associated Press

— George Weymouth, a conservationist and artist who for years helped hide a secret cache of Andrew Wyeth’s “Helga” portraits, has died.The Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art says he died at his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was 79. Weymouth opened the Brandywine River Museum of Art in 1971 in a converted gristmill as a place to display the works of his lifelong friend Andrew Wyeth.Nicknamed “Frolic,” Weymouth met Wyeth as a teenager.The elder artist became Weymouth’s lifelong friend and mentor, teaching him how to paint with tempura.For years, Weymouth hid a stash of Wyeth’s secret portraits of his neighbor Helga Testorf.The works, many of them nudes, stunned the art world in 1986.Wyeth revealed the existence of 240 paintings, watercolors and pencil studies he had done of Testorf from 1971 to 1985.Weymouth was also an established painter, known for landscapes, flower studies and portraits, including those of Luciano Pavarotti and England’s Prince Phillip, who was a friend.His paintings are in a number of museums.— If you want to share your voting experience on social media, you’ll have to find some way other than taking a photo in the voting booth. West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant says it’s forbidden.Tennant said in a news release Friday that it’s il-