Ocilla News

An Albany man's love of loud music landed him in jail Tuesday night after a traffic stop revealed he was driving with a suspended license, the Moultrie Police Department said.

A Gainesville man dubbed the "Catch Me Killer" on the internet was behind bars Thursday night.

The Tift County appraisal staff will be reviewing property in southeast Tift County south of Ferry Lake Road and east of I-75 to Cook/Berrien counties this week.

Authorities indicted a Gainesville man Tuesday for posting a video on YouTube stating that he was responsible for the murder of Tara Grinstead, who disappeared from her Ocilla home on Oct.

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Geraldo Martinez, 33, 240 Trailer Park Road, Moultrie, was charged Saturday with public drunkenness.

When Marcus Akinlana began working on the Mural Arts Program's latest project - dedicated yesterday at 39th Street near Chestnut - he ran into some local resistance.

One of the men died. The other is still recovering at the Still Burn Center in Augusta.

Ocilla Police say that 48-year-old Charles Wilber Behren was stabbed multiple times.

Larry Wayne Carithers, 52, 310 1/2 Bermuda St., Apt. B, was charged Sunday with a probation violation.

An Irwin County mother is asking the public for donations and planning fundraisers so that her son can receive the heart he needs to survive.

Local letter carriers are again urging people to fill up sacks or boxes with food for the 17th annual National Association of Letter Carriers National Food Drive to be held Saturday.

Music majors at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College have been working diligently on preparing individual pieces to present for their spring recitals.

"Hail started hitting the house, and we just headed toward the hallway and into the bathroom." Carson's home along Highway 319 was among one of several paths of destruction that Sheriff Bobby McLemore believed was caused by five tornadoes.

We believe that less government is best government. We don't believe government should be a nanny and get inside our vehicles and tell us that we have to wear seat belts for own sake.

Ocilla Police need your help to get a dangerous man off the streets. 26-year-old Nicholas Battle is an ex-con wanted for pulling a gun on a woman and robbing her.

Thank goodness the 2009 session of the Georgia General Assembly is almost over. The session, so far, is set to end Friday.

Dr. Howard McMahan has reached a decision: If the governor's budget becomes law, he'll stop seeing new patients who are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid.

They are encouraging everyone to participate in First Fridays on Fourth Street. More than twenty local shops and restaurants will stay open until 8:00 PM the first Friday of each month.

Ocilla firefighters were called to a vacant house fire at 620 North Carver Street on March 11th.