Waycross News

A Ware County jailer has been charged with allowing a man wanted for violating his state parole for theft to be released on bail when the man impersonated his brother.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has finished analyzing tissue samples of fish taken from the Oconee River last year and found no major concerns, fisheries officials said this week.

A Georgia Southern University student and a camper attending an event at the school have both tested positive for the novel influenza A H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu, the school and a health district announced Wednesday.

A Waycross woman accused of stealing at least $1.25 million from her former employer remained jailed Monday as Sheriffa TMs Office detectives from two counties continue investigating the case.

A Waycross career armed robber has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, and his son will join him behind bars for a decade.

People's lives often depend on the quick reaction and competent care of emergency medical technicians and paramedics.

A convicted sexual predator was captured in Northeast Florida about 24 hours after absconding from Ware County and triggering a two-state manhunt by local, state and federal officers.

The Ware County Sheriff's Office needs your help to find a missing sexual predator.

By mid-July, a new Ware County animal control officer will answer calls to dogs that bite, strays and neglected animals.

Valdosta Middle School Band Director Gary Bradley and Assistant Band Director Travis Downs knew it was going to be an exciting 2008-2009 school year when they received the invitation last July to perform at the Southeastern United States Concert Band Clinic.

The lunch crowd at Vandy's BBQ took the tax news like a root canal. Georgia property owners will see a higher amount on tax bills this October.

A development company has six months to develop a plan for using the former downtown Friedlander building, which has sat vacant for most of the past 15 years.

Even after Friday's rain, more than 70 riders put thunder in Stafford Park Saturday with a dice run to raise money for the Georgia Lions' Camp for the Blind.

A Waycross nurse has been accused of stealing prescription painkillers from her patients at a Ware County nursing home, then selling the narcotics with help from her boyfriend.

The governor vetoed eight House bills and seven Senate bills in addition to one Senate resolution.

A jury on Tuesday found Betty Jacobs guilty of killing her ex-husband at his Waycross doctor's office two years ago.

Metro police have identified the driver of a Scion who died in an early morning accident as 19-year old Elizabeth Nicole Johnson of Waycross, Georgia.

Photos by TERRY DICKSON/The Times-Union Pharmacist Donnie Griffin answers questions Thursday about Betty Jo Jacobs' pharmacy records posed by Jacobs' attorney, Howard Slocumb.

Michael and Angeline Greenwald of Augusta, are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Natalie Marisa Greenwald, to Philip Bradley Pirkle, Jr., son of Philip and Sharon Pirkle of Thomson.

L. Davis Jacobs loved his former wife until the day she gunned him down at his Waycross medical office, the couple's sons testified Tuesday at her murder trial.