Tifton News

The luxuries of the East Atlanta Village Farmers Market - where shoppers peruse European-style breads and organic dog biscuits along with locally grown produce - are a stark contrast to the neighborhood, where Census officials have estimated 20 percent of families live beneath the poverty line.

An Ashburn man who is a registered sex offender and once lived in Tifton was convicted in Florida Thursday of beating, raping and stabbing to death a Clearwater mother of three.

McCormick International USA recently took the opportunity to help two important agricultural institutions in South Georgia: The Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition Research Farm and the University of Georgia's Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton.

Too many births and a tough economy are filling the pens at the Tifton-Tift County Animal Shelter.

Moultrie Technical College celebrated its winter and spring quarter graduating classes of 2009 at a semi-annual Commencement ceremony held Friday evening, June 19, at Withers Auditorium in Moultrie.

State Rep. Austin Scott, a Republican candidate for governor in 2010 is embarking on a 1,000-mile "Walk of Georgia" tour.

Five Wilcox County teens, attending a camp at the Church of God Campground, were injured Monday morning when the SUV they were riding in flipped into the yard of a residence off Union Road here.

Police say 35-year-old Lecornus Richardson and 30-year-old Terrell Watson held up the Flash Foods store on West 7th Street Sunday morning.

Shots were fired in a local convenience store during an armed robbery early Sunday, but no one was injured.

The peanut plant grows a thick canopy of compound leaves close to the ground. This structure provides for good nuts, but makes it hard for farmers to fight diseases that attack near the soil.

In a career that is primarily sought by men, Moultrie Technical College Tifton Campus student Stephanie Kite looks to change all that in the Industrial Systems Technology field.

A LaGrange man who was stabbed near a local bar early Thursday morning is in good condition and detectives are continuing their investigation into the case.

A celebration of the opening of the Smithsonian Food Exhibit at the Georgia Agrirama will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the museum's lobby.

A teenager riding a four-wheeler through a patch of pine woods Tuesday afternoon off Tifton-Eldorado and Babe Hall roads discovered the body of an as yet unidentified person.

Arguments and fights at "20 Below," a club for teenagers, led to the arrest of four teenagers who were charged with disorderly conduct.

Texas Jack's Steakhouse has stepped forward to help the struggling Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Georgia, Inc.

Managers who have been affected by the economic downturn can attend a free workshop titled "Job Coaching for Managers, Supervisors, Executives, and Professionals" on June 23-26 at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

Home-owned family businesses are the economic backbone of this country. Just last week, yet another Tifton business - Turner Furniture Company - was recognized as a Georgia Family Business of the Year by the Cox Family Enterprise Center, the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University and Georgia Trend magazine.

A possible glimpse of the future made a visit to Tifton's Griffin Ford recently.

Watermelon farmers fear gummy stem blight more than any other disease. To develop better ways to manage it, University of Georgia Tifton Campus plant pathologists are leading a regional effort to pinpoint its origins.