Shellman News

Troopers tell us 25-year-old Walter Flowers of Shellman fell asleep at the wheel of this Ford Expedition around 3:30 AM on Highway 82 west in Graves.

As the school year winds up this month, the parents of nearly 1,600 students with disabilities used taxpayer funds to cover tuition at private schools as part of a new program designed to give them a choice in how their children are educated.

There will be a Confederate Memorial Day observance today in Brunswick beginning at 10:40 a.m. with a Sons of Confederate Veterans parade along Newcastle Street from G Street to Hanover Square.

Gertrude Baines has received a birthday gift that very few people ever will: a proclamation from Guinness World Records declaring her the oldest person on Earth.

Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest known living person celebrated her 115th birthday last Monday, April 6, at a nursing home here amidst an equal amount of media attention and party offerings of music, balloons, cakes and a presidential greeting from Barack Obama.

Through it all, she smiled. Gertrude Baines, who holds the record as the world's oldest living person, celebrated her 115th birthday Monday as well-wishers that included President Barack Obama and the Los Angeles Dodgers sent their regards.

A former Ohio State employee is the world's oldest person at 115 years young. Gertrude Baines marked her birthday in Los Angeles Monday.

The world's oldest person will celebrate another birthday today. Gertrude Baines will celebrate her 115th birthday at her home at Western Convalescent Hospital, near downtown Los Angeles.

Watercolor and oil painting, photography, pastels, pottery, and much more will be exhibited and sold by more than 25 local and regional artists at the Art in the Park Festival in conjunction with the annual Blessing of the Fleet celebration in Darien, March 28-29. Sponsored by the McIntosh Art Association and in beautiful Vernon Square in the ...

This is a small McIntosh County community where we were invited to lunch by Kathleen Russell, who publishes, with her brother Charles Williamson, the Darien News.

Robert Young says he believes that age is just a number - - no matter how high it gets.

A Portuguese woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world's oldest person died on Friday at the age of 115, officials said.

Shellman Mayor Paul Langford was surfing the Internet one day when he saw something interesting.

ZUG, Switzerland - Austrian-born author Johannes Mario Simmel, whose books are said to have sold more than 70 million copies worldwide, died Thursday in the Swiss town where he lived, a local official said ...