Shellman News

An escapee is wanted for sexually assaulting a Randolph County woman. This is 43-year old Charles Powers .

Promoting the economic and environmental benefits of healthy water is important and fun.

Baines, 115, once said she liked her bacon crispy and her chicken fried, but never drank, smoked or fooled around.

Although she liked her bacon crispy and her chicken fried, she never drank, smoked or fooled around, Gertrude Baines once said, describing a life that lasted an astonishing 115 years and earned her the title of oldest person on the planet.

Gertrude Baines was 115, the world's oldest person. She died in her sleep at Western Convalescent Hospital.

The world's oldest person, a woman who was born in 1894 and gained a measure of fame when she voted for Barack Obama for president, died on Friday at the age of 115.

Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest known person who once quipped she had won the genetic lottery, died Friday at a nursing home.

Every year the Masonic Home of Georgia, which is in Macon, sponsors a summer camp program for children at their Shellman's Bluff campsite.

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.