Cordele News

There are tons of good reasons for donating blood, but the American Red Cross has come across a new one that may be more timely than ever: Give blood Tuesday at the Cordele Community Clubhouse between noon and ...

From fireworks to barbecues, this weekend will be filled with a number of patriotic festivities.

Charles Minshew/Cordele Dispatch PAGE representatives Ken Colson and Tom Wommack present a plaque to Lions President-Elect Donnie Clack and President Wendell Howell.

Gabe Jordan/Cordele Dispatch Rail lines like these may lead to more jobs and greater financial security if economic development leaders in the Cordele area can secure an inland port to serve intermodal ...

Becky Crissman/Cordele Dispatch These young people are part of the art class that Sunny Lee teaches every Tuesday at 1 p.m. The class is open to children who are home schooled.

Gabe Jordan/Cordele Dispatch Cordele Commission Chairman Zack Wade and City Manager Jean Burnette review their notes during Tuesday's regular meeting of the city commission.

These break-ins followed other burglaries at Aaron's Sales & Lease Ownership and other locations in the area.

Few things are more devastating than the trauma of knowing that a child has been abducted.

Another Watermelon Days Festival has come and gone, and from all indications it seems to have been one of the best.

This Ford F-150 overturned on U.S. Highway 280 near exit 101 of Interstate 75 Thursday.

Gabe Jordan/Cordele Dispatch Crisp Board of Education members Tom Carden, Scott Forehand and Erskine Weaver listen as board staff give a presentation on positioning the construction site of a new elementary ...

Gabe Jordan/Cordele Dispatch Crisp County Sheriff's deputies are increasing their patrols in hopes of limiting unlawful destruction of rural mailboxes like these after a recent spate of vandalism.

Here is a list of the weekend's 10 most-viewed stories on macon.com, as measured by Omniture.

"You'll never think about food the same way again," according to an advance press release concerning the Smithsonian exhibition, "Key Ingredients: America By Food." The traveling exhibition will debut in Vienna ...

Charles Minshew/Cordele Dispatch Christy Bryan, Keyondra Doston, Hakila Gaston, Russ Hopper, Jerrett Irwin, Paulette Jones, Allen Kent, Sarah Kent, Kristen Larkin, Cassidy Little, Amee Mehta, Jordan Purdy and ...

Enjoying the shade under a cluster of oak trees, five-year-old Dylan Sheffield, with juice still running down his chin, had eaten so much watermelon by midday that the 59th annual Watermelon Days Festival had ...

Charles Minshew/Cordele Dispatch Crisp County EMS, Cordele Police, and Cordele Fire Department responded to a two-car accident at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and Sixth Street Wednesday morning.

Sitting in the swing on his back porch, Ralph Pannell can listen to the train whistle from miles away.

Summertime means watermelons in Cordele, which bills itself as the Watermelon Capital of the World.

I am the owner of two local convenience stores. I read Mr. Bear Kelley's letter to the editor in Wednesday's Cordele Dispatch and decided to accept his challenge and provide readers with the true facts about ...