Hawkinsville News

A Houston County grand jury indicted a Fort Valley couple Tuesday as part of an effort to curb improper enrollment in Houston schools.

Peach County is making plans to fix its animal control problem. County leaders and leaders from the city of Byron visited the Hawkinsville Shelter in Pulaski County to get ideas on building a county-wide shelter.

Joe Troha Joseph a oeLudya Troha, 83, died Monday, November 2, 2009, at The Doctors Hospital of Tattnall.

Northside High School's Blue Wind Band marched right into victory in its first competition of the season.

Two women died, but an eight-month-old survived a head-on crash on Highway 247 near Kathleen Friday night.

Two drivers are killed in a head-on collision in Houston County. According to a press release from the Houston County Sheriffa s Office, the deadly wreck happened around 6:30 pm Friday on GA-247 near Beaver Creek Road.

Jerry Chalker's career at Robins Air Force Base spans five decades, 11 presidential administrations, and the lives of most of his co-workers. In October 1959, when Chalker reported for his first day of work, President Obama had not yet been born.

Gov. Sonny Perdue awarded Northside High School the Governor's Cup and $2,000 for its SAT improvement efforts in a surprise assembly for students Tuesday.

Gov. Sonny Perdue went to Warner Robins and Hawkinsville this morning to award the Governor's Cup to Northside High School and Hawkinsville High School.

The Community Service Board of Middle Georgia said Wednesday that it's closing three of its facilities in Pulaski, Wilcox and Johnson counties.

Some high school students spend their summer working. Others spend the time in summer school.

The Tift County High School Blue Devil Brigade band received a Superior rating and won the Sweepstakes award for its classification during the Hawkinsville Invitational Competition on Saturday, Sept.

As the Ocmulgee River continues to rise in Hawkinsville, so do flooding concerns for some people who live there.

IN EFFECT NOW ...A River Flood Warning is in effect for the Ocmulgee River in Macon.

Obtaining a Houston County address may soon no longer be enough to enroll a child in school.

Angi Floyd never considered herself lucky until this summer. "It's still a shock, I mean I've never even won a lottery ticket," said Floyd.

There's no other way to look at it: It's an embarrassment that Georgia's public school systems rank near the bottom of the barrel in national achievement, and it's even more unfortunate that some Middle Georgia school systems are on the low end of those within the state when it comes to providing an adequate public education.

One parent indicted this week by the Houston County District Attorney's Office for providing a false address to send his children to Houston County schools plans to fight the charges.

Houston County's district attorney has identified three parents accused of giving false addresses so that children could attend the county's schools.

Parole has been granted - and rescinded - for a woman serving a life sentence after being convicted in the 1974 Bibb County killings of her ex-husband and his wife.