Richland News

“She would go on the Johnny Carson show, Merv Griffin show or even Walter Cronkite and just take over the program”

In the moments following Jimmy Carter's 1977 inauguration as president, a reporter asked his mother if she was proud of her son.

The always colorful Lillian Carter thought for a moment before responding: 'Which one?'

Known to most of the world as 'Miss Lillian,' the Carter family matriarch was her eldest son's secret weapon during his presidential campaign and his time in the White House. She became the nation's 'First Mama,' representing the U.S. on trips abroad when Jimmy Carter or his wife, Rosalynn, couldn't attend. Read more

Mrs. Hilda Bullard Murphy, age 88, died Wednesday morning March 19, 2008 at Magnolia Manor Nursing Center. via Americus Times-Recorder, Americus, Ge...

Grant Anderson isn't shy. The second-grader from Quakertown Community Schools' Tohickon Valley Elementary showcased a family trip to Egypt he took in November 2007. via The Morning Call

“From the time he was little, he could talk himself out of most situations, because a lot of times he would have gotten beaten up”

Irene Curtis of Richland has witnessed her share of history and was thrilled to see a little more the day Sen. via Tri-City Herald

Here's the dilemma as 74-year-old Art Landis saw it: remain his peaceful, laid-back self or go to federal prison.

The Bucks County man chose prison.

So he knelt down, wiggled his way under a chain-link fence onto the Fort Benning, Ga., Army base. Waiting on the other side were military police.

The Perkasie man says his Nov. 18, 2007, arrest during a protest of what he calls a terrorist training camp at Fort Benning was the least he could do to help a decades-long cause to shut down the Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Read more

“The children's pedal tractor race is one of the highlights of the day”

The SOWEGA Big Wheelers 11th annual Trac-Tow-Rama will feature a glimpse into the past. via Americus Times-Recorder, Americus, Ge...

“I'm just glad it's not on ball game day”

A Mediacom official confirmed Friday afternoon that a cable outage caused about 1,700 customers in several Southwest Georgia counties to lose service Thursday afternoon. via The Albany Herald