LaGrange News Archives

It's on to the Georgia Supreme Court for the appeal of Charles Edward Owens, who was convicted in the nearly 28-year-old contract slaying of Rebecca McGuire Heath.

Police have charged a LaGrange man in the shooting of a 15-year-old walking along a street.

LaGrange police were still trying to identify a suspect in Friday's shooting of 15-year-old Ladavious Dozier of Auburn Avenue.

WEST GEORGIA PAINT & BODY is a full-service, state-of-the-craft automotive repair and body shop serving the greater West Georgia and East Alabama community.

Troup and the other four counties in the Coweta Judicial Circuit plan to use a federal stimulus grant of $428,000 to expand drug courts into each county.

The ringleader of a savage beating and robbery was sentenced to 12 years in prison and eight years' probation Tuesday in Troup Superior Court.

A LaGrange man accused of a kidnapping for ransom has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The LaGrange Amateur Radio Club is gearing up to celebrate this as Amateur Radio Week.

Literacy volunteers go 'Riding for Reading' The local chapter of Literacy Volunteers for America will host its second "Riding for Reading" event, a motorcycle ride to benefit the agency, on Saturday.

"Troup County and West Georgia In World War II" is on display at the new Legacy Museum on Main in LaGrange now through early August, 2009.

The Mobis Georgia, LLC facility in West Point, GA will build cockpit modules, front-end modules and front and rear chassis for KIA Motor Manufacturing Georgia Inc.

The second day of the 2009 MLB draft had some big names many expected to be off the board in Rounds 1 through 3. Oakland finally took Yuba City H.S. catcher Max Stassi in Round 4, with fellow backstop Luke Bailey of Troup County H.S. going to Tampa Bay 16 picks later.

With the green light from the Board of Regents, Columbus State University has opened up a temporary office in West Point and started registering students for classes.

LaGrange Daily News won 13 awards, including recognitions for news, sports, columns, lifestyle coverage, photography and community service, in the 2009 Better Newspaper Contest sponsored by the Georgia Press Association.

Residents can start Saturdays off fresh with a visit to the Market on Main, a farmer's market in downtown LaGrange beginning this month.

Although General Motors has filed for bankruptcy protection, All-Pro Chevrolet isn't prepared to see a dropoff in sales, officials said.

Police in LaGrange, Ga., are searching for three men believed to be involved in a shooting Wednesday.Police responded to a call at Turner Street at 1:38 a.m. The scene was the Tall Pines Apartments.There, they found Derrick Moss, 22, of Pine Mountain, Ga., who had been shot in the lower right leg.

The captain of the Hogansville Police Department resigned Wednesday and another officer is on unpaid administrative leave after separate incidents.

The Troup County Commission approved up to $70,000 from contingency funds Tuesday to cover unexpected election expenses in 2008.

The sports editor of the Newnan Times-Herald was mugged at a convenience store in LaGrange, but a fellow customer and ambulance crew came to the rescue.