Perry News

Barbara Lilley Long has been named executive director of NAMI-Central Gerogia. Long previously was the personal care home adminsitrator for the New Hope Group Home, which is part of the NAMI-Central Georgia's outreach mission of family support, work programs, independent apartment living, education, advocacy and research for the mentally ill.

Peach County teachers were handed some good news Tuesday night: Their four-day furloughs have basically been revoked.

A Peach County sheriff's deputy has been arrested and charged with five counts of possessing child pornography, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Monday.

Jim Worrall, Perry's mayor of 21 years, will not seek re-election next year. "After 21 years, it's time to take a break," Worrall said.

City Councilman James Moore announced his plans to retire from his Post 2, District 2 seat during Thursday's regular City Council meeting.

A 77-year-old man died Tuesday after he was apparently shot by accident by his friend at a Houston County home near Warner Robins.

A man was robbed in Perry Tuesday morning as he walked back to his hotel. The man told police four men in their teens or early 20s beat him up and took his wallet, said Captain Heath Dykes with the Perry Police Department.

Goodwill Communications Manager Amy Chastain says in the first five months of this year, sales at overall Macon Goodwill stores rose 7.5 percent compared to the same period last year.

Graduating students in the radiology technology program at Middle Georgia Technical College in Warner Robins were pinned at the recent Spring Quarter Awards Day ceremony held in the auditorium on campus.

Mary and Bryan Davee have found a silver lining in a fire that destroyed their family business Monday: an outpouring of support from friends, customers and the community.

Ending this past spring with an enrollment of 591 students, The Westfield School in Perry is anticipating the start of another exciting school year, which begins Aug.

A Perry family is now evaluating damage to their property after their saw mill burned to the ground Monday night.

With the weather turning much warmer lately, local children may be wondering what to do on long, summer days.

Statistics were flying recently as school leaders talked to Perry Area Chamber of Commerce members at the group's First Fridays event.

I've been watching and reporting on the matters of Houston County for better than 25 years, and there are still some things I don't understand.

At the end of the school year, Houston County's 37 schools announced their 2009-10 Teachers of the Year.

GBI investigators arrested a Montezuma woman Friday night and charged her with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of two women in Fort Valley, authorities said.

A Tennessee man is dead after his motorcycle collided with a vehicle in Perry, officials said.

A Houston County man who at once made a great deal of political noise and did so with a rarely raised voice looks to be leaving the world of politics which has been his stage for so long.

According to a press release, the chase ended in a one car crash on Russell Parkway in Warner Robins .