Waycross News

The County Commission Chairman race is a tight one in Clinch county. 16 year veteran chairman Wink Strickland came out on top in the primary election.

Jerrell Loran Byrd, 67, of Waycross, died Sunday evening at his residence after a short illness.

This week millions of Georgians went to the polls to exercise their constitutional right to vote for the candidate of their choice.

' A longshoreman working for SSA Cooper was killed Tuesday while helping unload a ship at the Georgia Ports Authority docks.

Parents, teachers and other community members have until July 18 to give their opinions on textbooks and other materials Georgia public schools will use to to teach high school math and elementary and middle ...

Gov. Casey Cagle talked education policy one morning last month with about 30 public school leaders.

Barry Siegel. 384 pages. Harper. $25.95. Sixty years ago, a B-29 bomber on a secret mission fell from the sky in Waycross, Ga.

Deacon Darrell A. Monroe went home to be with the Lord on June 29, 2008, in Bremerton.

I guess I just didn't realize how big a deal Uga, the bulldog, was. I've read "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil!" I attended a Big Ten university! I've lived here for a few months now! I should have ...

Valdosta will host a pilot program to stamp out smoking around the state. It's called the Nicotine Replacement Therapy program.

Two of the three Waycross third-grade students charged in a plot to harm their teacher accepted plea deals on Tuesday.

Pablo Martinez's tendency to question authority landed him at hard labor in the sugar cane fields of Fidel Castro's Cuba when he was a teenager during the 1960s.

The Tifton Police Department and the Tift County Sheriff's Office are investigating recent reports of a rape, two vandalisms and an assault.

The nationwide credit crunch triggered by the subprime mortgage crisis might now be hitting Georgia colleges, as banks have begun in recent months to stop offering loans to students at some schools.

Starting in July, motorists who drive into many of the 180 Flash Foods service stations in Georgia and Florida might be caught off guard.

Hall County Board of Commissioners approved the appointment of Greg Walker as Director of Parks and Leisure Services.

We are hostages in our own homes, held prisoners by Big Oil and big prices at the pump.

By TERESA STEPZINSKI The Times-Union A Waycross man has been freed after a shooting victim awoke from a coma to tell police that another man had attacked her.

Thomasville Diversion Center is among six statewide to close because of a lack of state funding.

Lights ... Camera ... Action! During ReadQuest, teens ages 12-18 are invited to take the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's TeenTube challenge to create their own "braincast" - a video or an ...