Putney News

After an ongoing legal battle between Palmyra Medical Center and Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, the hearing officer with the Certificate of Need Appeal Panel affirmed last month the original Department of Community Health decision to grant a CON to Palmyra to begin delivering babies.

Pleading guilty to nine criminal counts, including three of violent street gang terrorism, could land gangleader Michael Williams in prison for 110 years, a judge says.

Underneath an orchard of pecan trees, hundreds of guests looked on as a line of City and County leaders, state representatives, Phoebe Sumter employees and a former U.S. President and first lady dug their shovels into the ground, and started the rebuilding process for healthcare in Sumter County.

At 8:25 a.m., Aug. 21, we were stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire.

Nearly a dozen people are already in jail and police are still looking for others in the murder of Reginald Richardson.

Officials say 20-year-old Damien Daniels turned himself in to police late last night.

Negotiations with hospitals in Athens and Gainesville for medical-student residencies remain on pace, officials with the Medical College of Georgia told a committee of the Board of Regents on Wednesday.

Albany firefighters are working to make sure they're in the best shape to handle those life or death situations.

On May 30, the family of the late Lewis Thomas Burnham and Nora Alice Stapleton Burnham marked their 10th reunion with a large gathering at the New Elm Baptist Church social hall.

Shelton, Fletcher Ed and Debbie Shelton of Dalton announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Hollie Shelton of Albany, Ga., to Jeff Fletcher of Albany, son of Don and Sandy Fletcher of Seymour, Tenn.

On May 30, the family of the late Lewis Thomas Burnham and Nora Alice Stapleton Burnham marked their 10th reunion with a large gathering at the New Elm Baptist Church social hall.

It happened around 11:30 Sunday night at the intersection of Oakridge and South Slappey Boulevard.

She was a member of Kappa Psi. She was a 2002 graduate of Northwest Whitfield High School, and she completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Georgia at Athens.

As they hammer out a new budget, Georgia lawmakers are faced with the task of cutting two billion dollars in state spending.

Jim Galloway has the story. Here's a bit of it but you really need to read the whole thing.

While in the Taco Bell drive-through at lunch Thursday, 28 year old Jeanita Fulmore reached inside the console of her car to get money, picked up her .9 millimeter luger and it discharged.

Albany police chief John Proctor said 14-year-old Ladrona Hamilton had gone to Cordele, where her family lived previously, after the Friday incident but she was brought back to Albany on Saturday.

The infamous Phoebe factoids controversy has re-surfaced--this time in a film. A documentary by a Chicago production company focuses on how big not-for-profit hospitals, including Phoebe, deal with uninsured and under-insured patients.

A motorcyclist is in critical condition after a near head on collision in west Albany.

A 14-year-old girl accused of stabbing a 12-year-old boy to death in Albany has been charged as an adult.