The last remaining bank based in Henry County was shut down by regulators Friday . . .
Congress gives final approval to a resolution sponsored by Rep. Lynn Westmoreland and Sen. Saxby Chambliss that calls for a study of the nation’s massive wave of bank failures . . .
The number of Georgia’s bank failures during the current downturn hits 73 with the closing of three more institutions by regulators . . .
Georgia observes the third anniversary of a massive wave of bank failures that have shut down more than 20 percent of the state’s lending institutions . . .
Bank failures continue to plague Georgia, and lawmakers Tom Graves and Chip Rogers are getting part of the blame . . .
Federal and state regulators have now shuttered 13 banks in Georgia this year, the highest total of any state . . .
Nearly 30 percent of the bank failures in the U.S. this year have been Georgia institutions; the FDIC shut down two more of them on Friday . . .
For the first four months of 2011, there were 10 bank failures in Georgia . . .
Two more Georgia banks fail, including one that was trying to collect on a loan default by suing U.S. Rep. Tom Graves and state Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers . . .