Fitzgerald News

Crime briefs: A man reported Monday that while moving a shopping cart off the sidewalk in the area of Highway 41 South and Pine Street, a female struck him with a hand saw.

We are learning new details about the man who was rescued Tuesday in Ocilla after he became trapped a top of a grain elevator.

An Ocilla man has been rescued and airlifted after an early morning accident left him bleeding and stuck atop a grain bin.

The small community of Passage East in Waterford will come together this afternoon for the funeral mass of three brothers who died in a fishing accident.

The track, "Torn Apart," is from the band's new album, Our Own Masters , which will be released June 18 via Volcom Entertainment.

Investigations are continuing this afternoon into what caused a fishing vessel to sink off the coast of Waterford yesterday - killing three brothers.

Two months after the suspected ringleader of south Georgia drug trafficking network was arrested crossing into Texas from Mexico with more than a half million dollars worth of meth, nine accused co-conspirators are now jailed in Ben Hill County.

Everybody remembers the last line of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most celebrated novel, The Great Gatsby : "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." I'll come back to those words in a moment.

The launch of the International Transatlantic Cable Heritage project will welcome Cyrus Field IV, the great-great-grandson of American businessman Cyrus Field, who promoted the project, and Adrian Fitzgerald, whose great-great-grandfather was responsible for facilitating the connection to Valentia.

A HSE inspection report into childcare centres across the country shows that 75% of them were in breach of regulations last year.

Fianna Fail is accusing the Children's Minister, Frances Fitzgerald, of putting children at risk by delaying the publication of two key pieces of childcare legislation.

As the sound system pounds out “Glad You Came” by The Wanted, the doors to the modest gymnasium at Sope Creek Elementary School in Cobb County fly open and children come streaming into the room, racing to take their place among the line dancers.

There has been significant political reaction to reports that RTA< has video evidence showing toddlers spending prolonged periods in high chairs, and children being yelled at and handled roughly during sleep and rest times.