Atkinson County News

The cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head. Sources close to the investigation believe the killer used a crow bar.

Just hours after we first reported that we received a e-mails from a couple of people wanting to donate their animal to replace the one the family lost.

Deputies confiscated 130 marijuana plants a couple of weeks ago after a landowner discovered them growing on his property.

Governor Sonny Perdue September 3rd announced Georgia has been awarded nearly $37 million in federal grants from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the state's Community Development Block Grant Program and Community HOME Investment Program .

Gov. Sonny Perdue's agriculture liaison has been named executive director of the Center of Innovation for Agribusiness based here.

Finding strength in pain Gay filmmaker Arthur Dong releases documentary trilogy a Stories from the War on Homosexualitya on DVD Pride around the nation In the wake of California legalizing marriage for gay couples, marriage equality was a major theme of gay Pride celebrations held last weekend and throughout June.

Gov. Sonny Perdue's agriculture liaison has been named executive director of the Center of Innovation for Agribusiness based here.

Three inmates broke out of the Atkinson County jail overnight, but were caught soon after.

Three jail inmates who climbed a barbed wire tower at the Atkinson County jail and escaped are back in custody.

Three inmates from the Atkinson County Jail escaped overnight, and were caught around 6:50am on Spikes Road near Pearson.

31-year-old Tracy Jo Gehring from Ohio was found Saturday inside a room at the Miami Motel.

Emergency crews were called out to Cooper Lane in Axson, in eastern Atkinson County, around 8:15. According to Atkinson County Coroner David White, first responders found the 18-year-old man unresponsive at the bottom of a pond located in front of his family's home.